Matt Grubb
Matt Grubb: is a 22 – year – old post graduate living in Farmington New Hampshire, but frequents the Portsmouth and Dover art venues. His work is fueled by a reverent respect of greats such as Jean – Michele Basquiat and Alberto Giacometti. His use of urgency in application and lack of delicacy communicates a debased yet precise analysis of portraiture and a multitude of impressionist subjects. Absence of “Old Master” refinery empowers the media to fill in the gaps of perception. Though his first love is within fine art, he is also an avid graffiti and public guerilla artist under an undisclosed pseudonym.
Kyle Bryant
Kyle Bryant: is a 25 year old printmaker and graduate of The Massachusetts College of Art. His work uses cities and architecture as a metaphor for psychological space. It depicts a world that seems promising and full of potential, but feels inaccessible and overwhelming. His sense of exploration is what drives his work. More of his work may be viewed at, http://kylehbryant.blogspot.com/
Leo Yankevich
is an American poet and Translator and is the editor of New Formalist. He is a prolific translator, having rendered into English poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanislaw Grochowiak, Czeslaw Milosz, Alexander Blok, Leopold Staff, Nikolay Gumilev, Boleslaw Lesmian, and many others.
Andrew Wachtel
is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he serves as dean of the Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. His interests range from Russian literature and culture to East European and Balkan culture, history, and politics. His book, The Balkans in World History, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.