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to the first edition of What I Buy and Why. Even though everyone in the art world is rightly talking about artists that are showing at Frieze, New York right now because it just opened today, I want to talk about an artist whose show actually closed in New York a couple weeks ago. Susan B. Chen. She's my pick. She's my pick for the first ever What I Buy and Why. I love her smaller works on paper. I love her sculptures and especially her monumental canvases. And I got to interview her a few weeks back for Scene and it was amazing. But it resonates today because as many of you know, especially those in the US, a six-week abortion ban went into effect on Wednesday in Florida, cutting off access to the procedure before many people know that they are even pregnant and leveling the southeastern United States last stronghold for abortion rights. So I'm upset. Which means I couldn't be happier to promote an artist whose exhibition at Rachel Uffner this spring showed a commitment to addressing issues of women's rights. In Plan B, Susan fearlessly explored new and complex subject matter with this characteristic blend of humor and compassion. Gallery space in New York, it was transformed into this like thought provoking environment with enormous Purell bottle sculptures that shared the stage with ceramic Plan B and Tampax boxes, portraits made of people that she met in online forums about abortion rights. And frankly, I want all the work. All of it. All of it. This rolling back of women's rights just isn't gonna fly.