Artists + Writers

Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based poet and art critic whose numerous books include
Poetry: A Geniza 2015, (Granary Books), The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces 2007, (Make Now), The Cry of Unbalance, with Trevor Winkfield, (The Song Cave), Postcards from Alphaville, 1999, (Hard Press), The Basement of Cafe Rilke, 1996 (Hard Press); Art Criticism: The Miraculous, 2014 (Paper Monument), Shirley Jaffe: Les formes de la dislocation Raphael Rubinstein, 2014, (FLAMMARION), En quête de miracle, 2004, (Editions Greges), his edited anthology Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice, 2006, (Hard Press Editions), Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002 (Hard Press Editions),and Peintures croisées, 1999, (Editions L'Harmattan). From 1997 to 2007 Raphael was a senior editor at Art in America, where he continues to be a contributing editor. He is currently Editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail and is a Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. In 2002, the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2010, his blog The Silo won a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. The Silo is conceived as a personal, revisionist "dictionary" of contemporary art. Its primary aims are to challenge existing exclusionary accounts of art since 1960 and to offer a fresh look at some canonical artists.

Heather (Bause) Rubinstein is a Professor of Painting, Art History and Design. Originally from Englewood, New Jersey, she was raised in Houston, TX, were she earned both her BFA and MFA in Painting and Art History from the University of Houston. Her exhibitions include, among others, "The Miraculous: Houston", a public text-based art installation across the entire 600-acre campus at the University of Houston; "Hard Tension/Soft Surface" at Projects Gallery; "The Stanford-Binet" at Darke Gallery Houston and the installation, "If you sprinkle" at Art League Houston. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at McClain Gallery, Devin Borden Gallery, Zoya Tommy Gallery, Gallery Homeland, the Blaffer Museum, Clarke and Associates, Galleri Urbane of Dallas, the Diary in Colorado, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, Pierogi Gallery, Site Brooklyn and MANA Contemporary in NYC. She divides her time between upstate Pennsylvania, Houston and New York City.