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Variable Voice: an online journal of West Coast arts writing and criticism

  • Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residency
    by Variable West
    October 14, 2021
    Variable West is thrilled to announce an art writing residency in partnership with Stelo.
  • The Care We Want—Designing a Better World for People With Disabilities: Emily Barker Interviewed
    by Eliza Levinson
    September 30, 2021
    Installation, sculpture, and social activism challenge able-bodied conceptions of what people with disabilities want and need.
  • In the center of a room, two individuals lie on the ground, their gaze fixed on a massive sculpture, recalling the shape of an atomic bomb, which is hovering just above them. Around the edge of the room, people watch a chilling moment unfold; among them, more vertically hanging sculpture hang.
    Love Letter to Yukiyo Kawano
    by Jennifer Rabin
    September 28, 2021
    A third-generation hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) explores the DNA of grief, violence, pain, and generational trauma via sculpture.
  • Lessons from the Forest: Arboreal at / Gallery
    by Matthew Harrison Tedford
    September 23, 2021
    A group show in San Francisco examines the many interconnected lessons we can learn from plants.
  • Yellow file icons hover against a flat white screen with text such as "Breaking Point," "Executive Model," and "M4M > Glory Hole > Fist Bump" labeling them, all below a title "On Power, in 20 Parts."
    On Power, Art(s) Labor, and Resting in the Grass: Eden V. Evans and Brian Gillis Interviewed
    by Tannon Reckling
    September 16, 2021
    A collaborative, web-based art project probes the causes and effects of power.
  • On the right, a toy figure reclines on a toy bed; on the left, a pile a small toy objects, including a teddy bear, a few chairs, a dresser, etc. lay in a pile—all before a red background.
    Love Letter to Patty Gone
    by Will Darling
    September 14, 2021
    An homage to art that shatters academic and "High Art" facades of elitism with the everyday.
  • Imagining Caregiving as Constant: Contact Traces at the Wattis Institute
    by Dani Smotrich-Barr
    September 9, 2021
    A group exhibition in San Francisco exposes lapses, performances, and vital acts of care.
  • A white limousine snakes around a 90 degree corner, carved into the side of a steep grass hill. In the distance, telephone wire stretches into the jungle of suburbia.
    Love Letter to Torbjørn Rødland
    by Jens Pettersen
    August 31, 2021
    A Norwegian-born artist casts light onto the strangeness of beauty in the US.
  • Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Choreographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari
    by Erin Langner
    August 26, 2021
    Shoccara Marcus's photographs highlight the complex nuances of relationships.
  • Chasing Ephemerality, Cheating Precarity: On Publishing During a Pandemic: Sarah Chieko Bonnickson and Gordon Fung Interviewed
    by Katherine Jemima Hamilton
    August 19, 2021
    Artists, writers, and designers discuss highlighting student voices in the pandemic and producing a digital publication.
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