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

  • Bold, colorful letters read CRITICAL MINDED on a white background
    Variable West Receives $20,000 Grant to Expand Editorial Apprenticeship Program
    by Amelia Rina
    January 20, 2022
    Thanks to this generous grant from Critical Minded, we are thrilled to announce that we are hiring a new Editorial Apprentice for 2022.
  • Two paintings sit beside each other on a white gallery wall, on larger and bluer, the other much smaller, a warmer yellow orange.
    The Mesmerizing Secrets of Mundane Objects: Mariel Capanna Overlook at Adams and Ollman
    by Eel Probably
    January 20, 2022
    An enigmatic painter draws her viewers into her impermanent abstractions, invites them to consider everyday materiality.
  • A square blank piece of paper attached to a wall with small, thin metal pins.
    Tom Friedman’s 1000 Hours of Staring
    by Amelia Rina
    January 18, 2022
    How a blank piece of paper inspired Variable West's founder to be an art critic and writer.
  • For the Love of Buildings: Avantika Bawa Interviewed
    by Jennifer Rabin
    January 13, 2022
    Portland-based Avantika Bawa talks about her "almost minimalist" installations, her love affair with buildings, and basketball.
  • Announcing the inaugural Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residents
    by Amelia Rina
    January 12, 2022
    Stelo and Variable West are delighted to announce the inaugural cohort of art writing residents!
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES | Imagining Caregiving as Constant: Contact Traces at the Wattis Institute
    by Dani Smotrich-Barr
    January 6, 2022
    A group exhibition in San Francisco exposes lapses, performances, and vital acts of care.
  • The fingers, roots of a tree stump stretch into warm green grass like veins of a river, the sky shades of pink and peach and cream, beyond, a lush treeline just below.
    FROM THE ARCHIVES | Love Letter to Patricia Hagen
    by Lisa Jaffe
    January 5, 2022
    A Port Townsend-based painter ponders the simultaneity of life and death in her portraits of stumps.
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES | Residential Intimacies: Shoccara Marcus Choreographs the Past and the Present at Wa Na Wari
    by Erin Langner
    January 4, 2022
    Shoccara Marcus's photographs highlight the complex nuances of relationships.
  • Two faces, pressed together, worry out of frame—to their left, an ominous hand's thumb presses on a neck.
    FROM THE ARCHIVES | Disco as a Communal Site of Pleasure: Coady Brown’s nightlife paintings at Shulamit Nazarian
    by Gabrielle Lawrence
    December 30, 2021
    Gabrielle Lawrence interprets Coady Brown's vibrant paintings through her favorite disco songs.
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES | The Radical Potential of Graphic Design: Jules Cordova Interviewed by Ella Ray
    by Ella Ray
    December 28, 2021
    Two almost strangers came together to support their community with design.
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