Sarah Miska (b. Sacramento, CA) received her BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in 2007 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at Lyles & King, New York; Micki Meng, San Francisco; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and Hernando’s Hideaway, Miami. Miska’s work has been featured in group shows at Matt Carey-Williams, London; Masey Klein, New York; Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles; Spazio Amanita, Los Angeles; Below Grand, New York; Dread Lounge, Los Angeles; Super Dutchess, New York; and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, among others. She is a 2022 subject of “In the Studio,” W Magazine’s culture series, Frieze Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles  Artillery Magazine, among others. Her work belongs in the permanent collections of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Miami and Long Museum, Shanghai. Miska lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Carla Edwards (b. Illinois) received her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Paula Cooper, New York, NY; Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada; Volta5, Basel, Switzerland; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, LA, among other venues. She has exhibited public sculpture at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY and at Lighthouse Works, NY. The artist is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a studio fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the public collections of Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Vera Institute of Justice, Brooklyn, NY; and JP Morgan Chase. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

*”Twist to strengthen" is a phrase pulled from “A Knotted Line Is Not the Shortest Distance,” a poem by Frances Richard. This poem was included in What Happens Between . It was published in 2022 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press.