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Love Letters, 2020-Ongoing

Playing with the physicality of language, the artist writes letters and words in ink and then presses them, like flower petals, creating little Rorschach’s. Words mirror themselves. For example, Me becomes We.

The intricate drawings look like hieroglyphics, but on close examination a perceptive viewer can sometimes decipher the mysterious messages. The drawings include inspirational quotes and calls to action from women through the ages, including Countess Markievicz, Mary Robinson, Vandana Shiva, Chelsea Manning, Amanda Gorman, and others.

Change is coming, whether you like it or not. -Greta Thunberg

SPRING 2021: A selection of Love Letters is currently on view in Fight Like a Girl at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf, in a three person exhibition with Andrea Bowers and Wendy White, through June 2021.

NOTE: Born in 1975, Katie Holten has been collecting artworks made that year. Her Love Letters are a homage to Bruce Conner’s DECK drawings, which he started in the summer of 1975 and attributed to Emily Feather and Anonymous.       

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Love Letters. Change is Coming, whether you like it or not. 2021. 14x17. bw. 001 crop email .jpg
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Change is Coming
Love Letters. We Are Either Going to Have a Future. 2021. 14x17. bw. 019 crop email .jpg
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We are either going to have a future where women prevail
Love Letters. Power to the People by Kathleen Cleaver. 2021. 14x17. bw. 013 email bright .jpg
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Power to the People
Love Letters. For There is Always Light, If Only We're Brave Enough to See it by Amanda Gorman. 2021. 14x17. bw. 031. crop email .jpg
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For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to be it
Love Letters. Fight Like a Girl. 2021. 14x17. bw. 024. cropped .jpg
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Fight Like a Girl
Love Letters 027. We now have a way by Elizabeth Kolbert. crop email.jpg
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We now have a way
Love Letters. OM. 18x24. bw. 00005 crop email .jpg
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OM
Love Letters 028. The World Is Just So Beautiful by Kerri ni Dochartaigh. email.jpg
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The world is just so beautiful
Love Letters. YOU. 18x24. bw. 00003 crop email .jpg
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You
Love Letters. You and Me. 18x24. bw. 00008 crop email .jpg
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You and Me
Love Letters. Change is Coming. 2021. 18x24. 007. crop email. jpg.jpg
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Change is Coming
Love Letters 026 Mornings at Blackwater by Mary Oliver. email.jpg
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Mornings at Blackwater
Love Letters. I was elected by the women of Ireland. 18x24. bw. 00009 crop .jpg
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I was elected by the women of Ireland
Love Letters. Your Own Truth. 18x24. bw. 00007 square .jpg
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Your Own Truth
Love Letters. Your Own Courage. 18x24. bw. 00006 square small .jpg
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Courage
Love Letters. Turn it Upside Down. 2021. 14x17. bw. 003 crop email .jpg
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Turn it upside down
Love Letters. No Longer Accepting. Angela Davis. 017. email.jpg
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I'm no longer accepting things
Love Letters. What Are We Without Words. 18x24. bw. 0001. crop email. jpg.jpg
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What Are We Without Words
Love Letters. The Water We Drink by Natalie Diaz. 2021. 14x17. bw. 004 crop email .jpg
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The Water We Drink
Love Letters. Whether You Like it or Not. 18x24. bw. 00012 crop email.jpg
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Whether you like it or not
Love Letters. Somehow We've Weathered and Witnessed by Amanda Gorman. 2021. 18x24. 008 crop email .jpg
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Somehow we weathered the storm
Love Letters. What Just Is, Isn't Always Justice. 18x24. bw. 00001. crop email. jpg.jpg
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What just is, isn't always justice
Love Letters. When We're Screwed, We Multiply x3. 2021. 18x24. 025 crop email .jpg
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When We're Screwed, We Multiply
Love Letters. We Live in a Strange World...Greta. 2021. 18x24. bw. 005 crop email .jpg
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We live in a strange world
Love Letters. No One is Too Small. 2021. 14x17. blue. 016 crop email.jpg
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No one is too small to make a difference
Love Letters. Once Upon a Time When Women Were Birds. 2021. 18x24. 026. crop email. tif.jpg
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Once Upon a Time
Love Letters. If We Took Away Barriers. 18x24. bw. 00004 crop email .jpg
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If we...
Love Letters. The First Water is the Body. 18x24. bw. 0003. crop email. jpg.jpg
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The first water is the body