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Leigh Markopoulos

San Francisco, California

1968 - 2017

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Leigh Markopoulos

September 10, 1968 - February 24, 2017

Leigh Markopoulos, the San Francisco-based art writer, editor, curator and leading educator in the field of curatorial studies, died on February 24th in Los Angeles. Born in Hannover, Germany, Markopoulos began her career at London's...

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Dear Leigh,

I was always in awe of you. It inhibited me from interacting with you more. Nontheless, you still touched my life in important ways. I always hoped to be better friends with you, and now you are at rest and peace. You are light.

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Leigh, of all the wrong things to happen at the hands of life's unpredictability, this is the worst. How quick and how unfair. I always thought there were many more encounters ahead where we could spar and jab at each other. I'll miss those times for sure and whenever I find myself in a particularly ludicrous situation, I'll smile when I think, "What would Leigh have said?" Remembering you always, your friend Rob Romano