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

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.
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.
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.
FROM THE ARCHIVES | New Images for an Old Struggle: Jacob Lawrence at Seattle Art Museum
by Bean Gilsdorf
December 21, 2021
Lawrence's research into this nation’s early years point the way to reckoning with past and present social crises.
FROM THE ARCHIVES | Going Through the Motions: Speculations on Birth in Patricia Piccinini’s The Awakening
by Janine Sun Rogers
December 16, 2021
A surreal birthing video situates viewers in an uncomfortable, yet fruitful space.