Susan Landauer is Katie and Drew Gibson Chief Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, California. She is the author of The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (California, 1996) and California Impressionists (1996). Recent exhibitions curated by Landauer include Contemporary Devotion; the Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration; Breaking Type: the Art of Karl Kasten; and The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, which won two major awards from the International Association of Art Critics. Bill Berkson is a writer and poet whose work appears in Facing Eden (California, 1995) and Homage to Frank O'Hara (1988).