Judy Pfaff (b. 1946) was born in London and later settled in America at the age of thirteen. She received her B.F.A. from Washington University and her M.F.A. from Yale University. From the beginning of her career in the 1970s, Pfaff has worked with a wide and unusual range of materials and moves back and forth easily between two- and three-dimensional work, creating art that is complex, profuse, and unique. Her dynamic, exuberant, large-scale works incorporate many different media.

Isaac Abrams (b. 1939) began producing drawings and paintings in 1965. An early self-taught pioneer of psychedelic art, his densely painted canvases depict organically bio-morphing hallucinogenic landscapes. Multi-colored or dot matrix-like in composition, Abrams paintings and drawings are structural explorations into interior and exterior happenings. In the monograph “Psychedelic Art” published 1968, authors Robert E. L. Masters & Jean Houston describe the artist’s paintings and drawings,“ Abrams works might best be described as ecstatic inscapes.“ This exhibition will include a selection of painting and drawings from the 1960s to the present. ”

Kirk Mangus (1952 - 2013) was the head of Ceramics at Kent State university from 1985-2013, where he was regarded as a beloved mentor to generations of students. He received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Washington State University, Pullman. He lectured widely in China, Japan, Korea, France, Italy, Finland, Lithuania, Canada and throughout the United States. His pottery wheel demonstrations were viewed as extraordinary performances. He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a McKnight Fellowship Residency at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis.