Deborah Kass, born 1952 and received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her work employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity.
Kass’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, among others.
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Gaby-Collins Fernandez was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MFA from Yale University in 2012. In 2013 she received a Rema Hort Mann Foundation award. This fall she will be in a group show about mermaids and tides curated by Jarrett Earnest at Diet Gallery in Miami.