LOVE LETTERS
Micro essays on artists we can’t stop thinking about

Love Letter to Andrea Zittel
On finding comfort in simplicity.

Love Letter to Laetitia Sonami
Sparkling aural textures tangle with a narrative of tragedies and triumphs.

Love Letter to Katherine Sherwood
Providing space and care for people with disabilities through references to historical painting.

Love Letter to Bernice Bing
On falling in love with a painter through one photograph.

Love Letter to Mabel McKay
Intricate baskets blur the line between functional objects and artistry.

Love Letter to Norma Cole
Marvelous and strange drawings pose questions about the visual world.

Love Letter to Yoko Kubrick
Abstracting myths and archetypes in evocative marble.

Love Letter to Natalie Krick
A new blue is just one of the reasons to love Krick’s latest series.

Love Letter to Ron Athey
On the radical queer embodiment of Ron Athey’s performances.

Love Letter to Bean Gilsdorf
The stiff gravitas of US politicians made floppy and satirical.

Love Letter to Dr. Qinqin Liu
Painting California’s watersheds as a way to cope with the climate crisis.

Love Letter to Katherine Ace
Exploring fantastical and surreal subjects in masterful portraits.

Love Letter to Laida Lertxundi
The pleasure of finding ways to describe a filmmaker’s roving vision.

Love Letter to Luke Chueh
On feeling guilty enjoying a Luke Chueh painting.

Love Letter to Betye Saar
Betye Saar’s found object assemblages visualize the possibility of liberation.

Love Letter to Jazmin Anita
The power of Black women portraying themselves as diverse and beautiful.

Love Letter to Pauline Oliveros
Listening to music as an act of kinship.

Love Letter to Pace Taylor
Conflicting desires in fields of soft pastel and leaden graphite details

Love Letter to jayy dodd
A glitchy, intimate escape during quarantine questions value systems