curator's notes

Mary Ellen Carroll lives, works, and eats in New York.

Rainer Ganahl is an artist based in New York.

Liz Fried is a freelance writer living in New York, currently working on a book about Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes.

Spencer Finch works in a maraschino cherry factory in Brooklyn.

Kenneth Goldsmith is tired of the warm spot on his pillow.

Brendan Quick is an artist who deals with narratives and may know someone who knows someone who knows something about “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.”

Calvin Reid is an artist and occasional curator, who also writes for Art in America, Art and Auction, and New Observations. He lives in New York City.

Marilu Knode is a curator at the Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California. Her most recent projects include “Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place” at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, and “Kim Dingle” at the Otis Gallery, Los Angeles.

Robert Antoni is an author teaching in the M.F.A. program for creative writing at the University of Miami. His book Divina Trace (Overlook) was released in ’92. His second novel, Blessed is the Fruit, will be published by Holt in the spring of ’97.

Tamas Banovich is an artist, occasional writer, and a co-founder of Postmasters Gallery in New York. His latest project is “Can You Digit?,” a show of digital art he co-curated with Ken Copland. (Postmasters Gallery, March 1996.)