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Tag: Public Health

A collaged image that resembles the Temperance card: an ancient Egyptian figure hurryingly pours one cup of water into another. Underneath their feet, the advertisement for Miss Cleo’s number creeps up; the description for this card reads: “The US Public Health Service began ‘The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in African American Male.’”
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Black Life Exploited for White Lies: Ilana Harris-Babou’s Long Con at Jacob Lawrence Gallery

  • by Brittney Frantece
  • Posted on February 4, 2021February 5, 2021

Satire and collage expose capitalist strategies of using Black bodies to exploit spiritual, mental, and physical health.

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

  • A painting with surreal, hyper-saturated colors of a group of young women, sitting on pedestals, some wearing crows. Behind them, an enormous US flag waves in the wind.
    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.
  • In the bottom of the frame, multiple individuals in a dark room hole up their phones to take photos of a painting of a person's face projected on a far wall.
    Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino
    by Renée Reizman
    May 12, 2022
    What do blockbuster immersive art exhibits and junk food have in common?
  • an ellipse followed by an exclamation point in a bold black font.
    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.
  • Against a hot pink background, a to-go box of food—including rice, beans, and a triangle-folded tortilla—are neatly arranged for an aerial photograph.
    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.
  • In the center of a mostly black-and-white collage of photos, images and screenshots, an individual wearing a red scarf kneels before an "Official Ballot Box."
    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.
  • In three colorful panels, several hairy, flower-like, person-like, elongated and distorted forms meander about in one two-dimensional scene.
    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.
  • Amelia Ketzel standing in the Jacob Lawrence gallery in front of a haint blue wall and window. She is an Asian-American woman with long black hair and a black puff-sleeve top. She is smiling in between laughs.
    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.
  • A vertical painting of an unbusied city street in the 1930s, the leaves on the trees freshly sprouted and the sky, cloudy and blue.
    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.
  • A person sits on a leather couch, one leg crossed, an open book in their hand. Bright light streams through tall windows behind them.
    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.
  • A photograph peers through palm leaves to onlook the facade of a long, squatty building, across which the coordinates "38.56858818026328, -121.48851783164906" are printed in black.
    A Condemned Building Gets a Last Breath of Life Through Sacramento Artists: Faith J. McKinnie, Liv Moe, Molly Stroud, and Genesis “The Mayor” Torres Interviewed
    by Allie Haeusslein
    April 5, 2022
    Four curators and thirty-five artists transform a soon-to-be demolished building in Sacramento's rapidly gentrifying Ice Blocks district.
  • How Technology Feels: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Interviewed
    by Sofía Córdova
    March 31, 2022
    In a bilingual conversation, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Sofía Córdova question the human relationship with technology.
  • Finding Meaning in Forgotten Objects: Pamela Ramos Interviewed
    by Angella d'Avignon
    March 30, 2022
    Found objects give intimate clues to the lives of strangers, and are given new lives as artworks.
  • On top of a brightly colored (dotted) bed sheet, two books, a cell phone, floss, pills, a mask, a lighter, a journal, a deodorant stick and a broken cigarette are strewn about.
    Love Letter to Essie Somma
    by Sarah Russell
    March 29, 2022
    A painter challenges the traditional approach to classical painting through vice, intimacy, and the quotidian.
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