About Jaime DeSimone:

Jaime DeSimone is the Chief Curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, specializing in contemporary art and feminist art history. She has held curatorial roles at the Portland Museum of Art (ME), MOCA Jacksonville, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. DeSimone has curated over 40 exhibitions, including Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020–2024) (2025), Anne Buckwalter: Manors (2025), Sue de Beer: The White Wolf (2024), Jeremy Frey: Woven (2024, co-curator), Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford (2022), and Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times (2020), and Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction (2016), among others. DeSimone was a recipient of the 2019 Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She holds degrees in art history from American University (MA) and Bates College (BA).

About Aliza Rachel Edelman, Ph.D:

Aliza Rachel Edelman, Ph.D., is an independent curator, art historian, and editor whose research  spans the modern Americas and the Middle East, with an emphasis on the art of the postwar United States and Brazil, the transnational histories of abstraction, and global theories of gender and sexuality. Her scholarship on Judith Lauand, Charmion von Wiegand, and Grace Hartigan, among other midcentury modern women, has been published by the Getty, MASP, Routledge, and Yale Univ. Press. Her current book project focuses on Eunice Golden’s feminist sexuality and male body landscapes from the 1970s. Since 2018, she has served as co-chief editor of Woman’s Art Journal, which has been publishing high-quality scholarship in the field of feminist art history for five decades.

About a’driane nieves: 

a’driane nieves is a visual artist and writer whose interdisciplinary practice explores the interior landscapes of the self. A self-taught painter, she began painting in 2011 as a form of art therapy during recovery from postpartum depression and a bipolar disorder diagnosis. What began as personal healing evolved into a deeper investigation of emotional suppression and memory.

Influenced by artists such as Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Bernice Bing, Alma Thomas, and Mary Lovelace O’Neal, nieves works across painting, writing, soft sculpture, and text-based media. Her abstract expressionist approach embraces vulnerability, healing, and nonlinear narratives. Text often appears in her work as fragments—sometimes legible, sometimes obscured—reflecting the complexity of self-expression.

As a Black, queer, neurodivergent woman, nieves uses her practice to assert presence and agency, offering space for others to do the same. She is also the founder of an arts nonprofit and magazine focused on creative access and community-building.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Harvey B. Gantt Center (Charlotte, USA), Consortium Museum (France), Art Basel (Switzerland, Hong Kong, Miami), Frieze (London, Seoul), Galerie Marguo (Paris), Various Small Fires (Los Angeles), Standing Pine Gallery (Tokyo), and BODE Projects (Berlin), and is held in collections across North America, Europe, and Asia.