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FROM THE ARCHIVE
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Love Letter to jayy dodd
A glitchy, intimate escape during quarantine questions value systems
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Love Letter to Pace Taylor
Conflicting desires in fields of soft pastel and leaden graphite details
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Love Letter to Pauline Oliveros
Listening to music as an act of kinship.
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Love Letter to Jazmin Anita
The power of Black women portraying themselves as diverse and beautiful.
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Love Letter to Betye Saar
Betye Saar’s found object assemblages visualize the possibility of liberation.
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Love Letter to Luke Chueh
On feeling guilty enjoying a Luke Chueh painting.
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Love Letter to Laida Lertxundi
The pleasure of finding ways to describe a filmmaker’s roving vision.
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Love Letter to Katherine Ace
Exploring fantastical and surreal subjects in masterful portraits.
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Love Letter to Dr. Qinqin Liu
Painting California’s watersheds as a way to cope with the climate crisis.
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Love Letter to Bean Gilsdorf
The stiff gravitas of US politicians made floppy and satirical.
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All the Strings that Bind: Patty Chang at Friends Indeed and Cushion Works
Chang’s work displays a longstanding preoccupation with the boundaries and trace appearances of the body.
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Love Letter to Ron Athey
On the radical queer embodiment of Ron Athey’s performances.
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Variable West Receives Critical Minded Arts Writing Grant
The funds will go toward publishing exceptional reviews, essays, and interviews by West Coast art writers.
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Introducing Variable Voice: Letter from the Editor
Introducing Variable Voice, our online journal featuring exhibition reviews, essays, interviews, Love Letters, and other series that try to find a balance between generous, accessible language, zealously researched topics, and experimental prose that challenges the conventions of each format.
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Love Letter to Natalie Krick
A new blue is just one of the reasons to love Krick’s latest series.