Juan Logan

Elegy 41, 2020

Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 60

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Juan Logan now lives and works in Belmont, North Carolina. Logan’s artworks address subjects relevant to the American experience. At once abstract and representational, his paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and videos address the interconnections of race, place, and power. They make visible how hierarchical relations and social stereotypes shape individuals, institutions, and the material and mental landscapes of contemporary life.

The “Elegy” series deals with the complex relation between memory and incidents. Before these become historical events, they must be preserved as memories. Elegies point to this, they are visible fragments of what remains. Thus, in Juan Logan’s paintings human experience is transformed into specific colors, shapes or lines as ciphers representing places, people and things in memory. Thus we are challenged to see the whole and commemorate what was once complete.