John Hovig draws upon his high-tech background to depict scenes of technological
dystopia. Hovig was born in 1968, in upstate New York. He holds a BS in
Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science. He became a full-time
artist in 2011, after serving over a decade as the CTO and chief software
architect of a small internet-based software company.
Galina Kurlat was born in Moscow in 1981 and emigrated to the United States in 1989.
She received her Bachelor of Media Arts Degree from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute
in 2005, she currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Her work has been
exhibited internationally and is in number of public and private collections,
including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Dean Liscum is a Houston-based art and fiction writer. He has written extensively on
the Houston performance art scene for the Great
God Pan Is Dead. (Dean Liscum is on the left, next to Harbeer Singh Lagataar. Photo by Robert Boyd)
Ike E. Morgan started painting as a resident of the Austin State Hospital, where his work
was discovered by Jim Pirtle. From that time, Morgan’s work has been widely
exhibited and collected. Morgan’s gallery is the Webb Gallery in Waxahatchee.
Morgan lives in Austin.
The picture above is one of three by Ike Morgan in EXU, including the cover.
Emily Peacock studied photography at Sam Houston State University and got an MFA at
the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited all over Texas, as well
as in Austria, Kentucky, Colorado and New York.
Jim Pirtle was born in Houston, TX in 1960. He went to
Baylor University in Waco, TX and after college he moved to Austin, TX and got
a job as an orderly at the Austin State Hospital. He learned art from his
peers, including Nestor Topchy and Mark Flood. He creates paintings, video, nonfiction
prose and performance. He owns and runs a social sculpture/bar &
performance space called Notsuoh in downtown Houston.
(Photo by Robert Boyd)
) and a co-author of a compilation of notorious Houston crimes, 
. Lomax has
been a full-time journalist in the Bayou City since 2001. His work has appeared
in the Houston Press, Houston Chronicle,
Spin, the New York Times, the Village Voice, LA Weekly and other
publications. (Photo by Joseph Lomax.)
