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Rackstraw Downes Editor & Author

Gael Stack has exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including the Beaux Art Museum, Saintes, France; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Menil Collection, Houston. She is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Art at the University of Houston, where she formerly headed a department that has become the region's premier training ground for the visual arts.

A contributing editor at Art in America, Raphael Rubinstein is a poet, art critic, and author of numerous books.

Alison de Lima Greene is the curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Rackstraw Downes is a realist painter who has been celebrated as a master of the American landscape. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009.