About the Contributors

Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue has been a college educator for more than twenty years, lecturing at institutions such as UCLA, Mount St. Mary’s College, Cal State University, and Pepperdine University. She is currently a full professor of art history at Otis College of Art and Design, where she heads the art history area. Her essays on fine art, culture, and critical theory have appeared in USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Arts Newspaper, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Sculpture, and many other publications. Since 2017 she has been the director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation.

Tom Moran served as the chief curator at Grounds For Sculpture from 2011 to 2020, and is the exhibition curator for Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960–2020. He has curated exhibitions of the works of Willie Cole, Jae Ko, Masayuki Koorida, Kang Muxiang, Michael Rees, Steve Tobin, and Elyn Zimmerman, and has completed more than 400 public art projects. Moran has consulted with foundations, museums, governments, and art ists on the field of sculpture, memorials, and public art, and has published and lectured widely on these subjects.

Lawrence Weschler is a former staff writer at the New Yorker, where from 1981 to 2002 he blended politics, culture, and humor in insightful essays. Weschler’s recent books include Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, comprising thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin; True to Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney; Liza Lou; Tara Donovan; and Deborah Butterfield. He is director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.