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Various Small Fires (VSF) is a contemporary art gallery located in Los Angeles, California.

=History=

VSF was founded by Esther Kim Varet in Venice, Los Angeles, in 2012. The gallery borrows its name from artist Ed Ruscha’s 1964 conceptual art book Various Small Fires and Milk.

The inaugural exhibition by New Zealand artist Fiona Connor, Murals and Print, featured “a set of movable walls that were continually rearranged to accommodate a series of events.”

In 2014, VSF relocated to Hollywood, California to a 1940’s era building remodeled by Johnston Marklee architects.

=Programming=

Writer Demie Kim noted on Artsy that, “Various Small Fires is pushing forward existing art-historical and contemporary discourse through socially engaged programming—from fresh, generationally relevant shows by an over 50 percent female roster to reinstalls of major exhibitions from the ’60s.”

=Artists=

Artists including Billy Al Bengston, The Harrison Studio, Judith Linhares, Liz Magic Laser, and Anna Sew Hoy have exhibited at the gallery.

= References =

= External links =
 * www.vsf.la