About the Author

Mike McGee is currently director of the Lee and Nicholas Begovich Gallery and a professor of art at Cal State Fullerton University where he heads the museum studies/exhibition design graduate program. He has worked as an art writer, curator, and arts administrator since 1982. He has organized and written essays for more than two hundred exhibitions and accompanying pubications working with artists such as Don Bachardy, Tony DeLap, Paul McCarthy, Mark Ryden, Kenny Scharf, and Robert Williams. He is founder of both the Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center in downtown Santa Ana, Californi Gregory Volk is a New York-based art critic and curator. He writes for Art in America and has contributed texts to exhibition catalogues such as Bruce Nauman (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006), Avse Erkmen (Venice Biennale, 2011), and Sanford Biggers (Brooklyn Museum, 2011). Volk has curated numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally and he is also an associate professor in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his BA from Colgate University and MA from Columbia University, New York. Bill Arning is the Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston who has organized numerous exhibitions. Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (2011), which Arning co-curated with Joa£o Ribas, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, received the prestigious award of "Best Show Involving Digital Media, Video, Film, or Performance" from the United States section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA).