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Tag: My Eyes Need Beauty

This blurred photograph softens the edges of the flowers in the foreground, blending the scene into an ambivalent background, creating a simultaneously frenzied and meditative space for motion, direction, and contemplation.

Deb Achak: My Eyes Need Beauty

I found strength and optimism through the healing power of flowers, vivid color, and meditative movement.

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New voices on West Coast art: exhibition reviews, artist interviews, and more

We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery
by Jaushua Rombaoa
June 23, 2022
Religious images question the multifaceted nature of human lives.
Who Do I Think I Am? Lynn Hershman Leeson at Altman Siegel
by Max Blue
June 7, 2022
A multi-media artist on the West Coast gets up close and personal with their viewers, unsettling the notion of a fixed identity.
Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass
by Jeff Alessandrelli
May 31, 2022
A painter meditates on the impending and preventable horror of environmental destruction.
Support, Opportunity, and Liberation: Month of Sundays at Eugene Contemporary Art
by Chelsea Couch
May 26, 2022
An ambitious group exhibition steps in to show the world that liberation requires both trouble and quietude.
Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed
by Kathy Battista
May 19, 2022
Class, tradition, gender roles, race, and celebrity take center stage in Marika Thunder's exhibition at de boer gallery in Los Angeles
Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once
by May Maylisa Cat
May 17, 2022
May Maylisa Cat considers how Asian people and cultures have been continuously erased from film and TV.
Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino
by Renée Reizman
May 12, 2022
What do blockbuster immersive art exhibits and junk food have in common?
Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation
by Douglas Weissman
May 10, 2022
A writer discusses how an unlikely combination of punctuation changed his writing forever.
Sponsored Connection | Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon at Portland Art Museum Reviewed
by Ruby Joy White
May 5, 2022
Portland artist Christine Miller turns historical racist imagery into tools for Black liberation and love.
Sponsored Connection | Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick at lumber room Reviewed
by Ella Ray
May 5, 2022
Two artists collaborate to explore kinship, multigenerational learning, and community.
Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles
by Gabrielle Lawrence
May 3, 2022
A daring but imperfect exhibition challenges notions of racism and colorism.
Chromophilia
by Daniela Molnar
April 28, 2022
Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Resident Daniela Molnar examines the human relationship with color.
Raúl Guerrero & Mexican food in the United States
by Gerry Peña-Martinez
April 26, 2022
Raúl Guerrero's paintings of food celebrate the Mexican-American experience.
Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed
by Laurel V. McLaughlin
April 21, 2022
Yuyang Zhang's paintings and digital collages offer cultural commentary through memes, Chinese-American culture, and dark humor.
Love Letter to Julie Green
by Erin Bodfish
April 19, 2022
An Oregon-based educator and artist inspires her students to find beauty in everything.
Nasim Hantezadeh and summer stone fruit
by Emma Robitaille
April 14, 2022
An LA-based artist's biomorphic works on paper evoke the vocabulary of food.
Introducing Amelia Ketzel, our spring quarter Editorial Apprentice
by Variable West
April 13, 2022
We are thrilled to announce that Amelia Ketzel is joining Variable West as the spring 2022 Editorial Apprentice.
Love Letter to Kenjiro Nomura
by Peter Tracy
April 12, 2022
A Seattle-based painter captures 1930s Seattle, Japanese Internment, grief, loss, and recovery—all with his brush.
Srijon Chowdhury’s “Groundhog Day” at SE Cooper Contemporary
by Hannah Krafcik
April 7, 2022
A Portland-based painter conjures the otherworldly to meditate on the shrouded interiority of his subjects.
Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed
by May Maylisa Cat
April 6, 2022
Through scientific discovery and mysticism, Emily Endo explores the possibility of glass.

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