Gary Logan

Whether creating plastic covered vistas or distressed leather exploding with cotton fibers, Logan’s heavily textured images are intended to be viewed both as romantically inspired and abstracted terrains as well as disturbing inner landscapes that evoke the sublime, confront past episodes of human oppression, and force us to contend with our currently discordant relationship with the Earth. Surface, particularly deconstructs, examines, and exposes the perilous tenets between patriarchy, human subjugation, and the detrimental consequences of unchecked consumption of nature. Logan aims to highlight the disturbing similarities and psycho-social consequences related to widespread human conflict and environmental destruction – as both have threatened and continue to jeopardize both our existence and that of natural life on this planet.

As an artist of Afro-Caribbean descent and as a gay man, Logan boldly intersects various aspects of his personage, racial heritage, and sexuality into his images. These aspects encompass fraught themes and psychological demons, but also embrace and celebrate Blackness, Gay identity, survival, and healing. Surface further blends identity and current scientific speculation on epigenetics, dark matter, climate change and the Anthropocene to reveal deeply disturbing views of humanity and our impact on the natural world. Hence, all of these motifs, from the personal to the panoramic, are rendered through a series of enigmatic landscapes and biomorphic images that appear to be teeming with curious, organic forms (reminiscent of atoms, molecules, cells, and viruses) that converge to create awe-inspiring compositions of damaged physical spaces and detailed views into disturbing sides of the human psyche. His compositions brazenly identify humanity as a viral plague on this planet, while simultaneously recognizing the profundity and resilience of life.