David Simpson is an American abstract painter. His meditative compositions continue the tradition of Post-Painterly Abstraction that Simpson helped found along with Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland. Simpson’s career can be described by three distinct aesthetic periods: landscape-based abstraction, relational abstraction, and interference painting. His more recent work employs unconventional formal means, including applying mica particles to painted surfaces with electricity to create unexpected corporeal forms. Simpson cites a variety of influences for his work such as children’s art, Cubism, Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, and others. Born in 1928 in Pasadena, CA, Simpson went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from San Francisco State College. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Phoenix Art Museum, among others. Simpson lives and works in Berkeley, CA.

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer and typographer based in New York. His eye-catching and provocative designs are imprinted in popular culture in the form of album art for many music artists, including Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, Pat Metheny, and Talking Heads.

Joe Perez is a creative director and graphic artist behind some of the most acclaimed records of our time. After working with Kanye West for eight years, including his notable contribution as a creative director at DONDA, he launched his own design and animation studio. The cover he designed for The Pinkprint album by Nicky Minaj ended up on Billboard’s list of The 50 Greatest Album Covers of All Time, amid other iconic designs.

What is the nature of control? The desire for it and to be free of it are essential parts of both life and art. New issue explores the many ways we attempt to exert or wrest away control – creatively, politically, socially – through the lens of a diverse array of artists who have broken down the boundaries of authority in their work: Laia Abril, Barbara Alter, Richard Avedon, Roe Ethridge, Sam Geballe, Nan Goldin, Jos Jansen, Steven Klein, Barbara Kruger, Mona Kuhn, Natalie Lennard, Tyler Mitchell, Richard-Jonathan Nelson, Lisa Oppenheim, Frida Orupabo, Rodrigo Valenzuela, James Welling, Jordan Wolfson, and more.

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