Eric Fischl:

Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He received a BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. His work has been the subject of numerous important exhibitions including: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; and the Museum of Contemparary Art, Chicago. Fischl lives and works in New York City and Sag Harbor, NY.

Francesco Clemente is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City, Rome, and Chennai, India. His works have been the subject of major solo exhibitions worldwide, at places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dia Art Foundation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Centre Pompidou.

Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions since 1980, at venues including the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Sadie Coles HO, London; Parco, Tokyo; Regan Projects, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum Boijmans-Van Beunigen, Rotterdam; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His books include "Why I Go to the Movies Alone" (Tanem Press, 1983), "Wild History" (Tanem Press, 1985), "Inside World" (Thea Westreich, 1989), "Adult Comedy Action Drama" (Scalo, 1995), and "4 x 4" (Powerhouse Books, 1997). Prince currently lives and works in New York.

Geoffrey Young edited and published The Figures for 30 years, and now teaches a class at University at Albany in Art Criticism. For the last 15 years he has curated shows at his contemporary art gallery in Great Barrington, MA. He is the author of the following books of poetry: Pockets of Wheat, Cerulean Embankments, Lights Out, and Fickle Sonnets. Born in Los Angeles, he has lived in the east since 1982.