Issue 17 — Variance
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ARTIST ON ART

Joan Giroux

 

 

Matthew Freeland Ranger

dob September 6, 1956

dod September 21, 1991

A turquoise-toned photograph of a figure at a table, smiling towards the camera, is printed onto the top portion of a cream paper covered with muted red and green stars.
A blue-toned photograph of a figure wearing glasses is printed onto the top portion of a light blue paper. The paper has intersecting horizontal and vertical blue and green lines
Typewritten page. The text reads: “October 14, 2021, Chicago. Dear Matthew, I’m twice as old now as when you died, a lifetime ago, and just yesterday. I rail against it sometimes, of course to no avail. . . . But I mostly cry. You never really spoke publicly about your illness. In those last years you spent a good deal of time pretending your Karposi Sarcoma lesions were ‘a rash caused by turpentines’ . . . do you know that your family guessed otherwise? I hope you forgive me telling your story. It’s

Joan Giroux reads Dear Matthew

Joan Giroux

American, b. 1961

Matthew Freeland Ranger, with Joan, dob September 6, 1956, 2019

Serigraphic drawing

31.8 x 25.4 cm. (12 1/2 x 10 in.)

Courtesy of the Artist

Joan Giroux

American, b. 1961

Matthew Freeland Ranger, dod September 21, 1991, 2019

Serigraphic drawing

31.8 x 25.4 cm. (12 1/2 x 10 in.)

Courtesy of the Artist

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