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| Juan Logan, Some Clouds Are Darker, 2011, mixed media, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. |
I’ll Save
You Tomorrow
February 13 – July 20, 2014
Opening reception: Thursday, February 13, 2014,
6:00 – 8:00PM
University
of New Orleans
925 Camp
Street, 5th Floor
New
Orleans, LA
The Ogden
Museum of Southern Art is pleased to present Juan Logan: I’ll Save You Tomorrow. The exhibition consists of 29 large-scale
paintings—symbolic and monumental in nature.
The mature
works of Juan Logan exist not only as beautiful and well-crafted abstract
paintings, but exist on a deeper, iconic, and richly narrative level, says
Ogden Museum Chief Curator, Bradley Sumrall. “They challenge the viewer to
question perceptions of our history, our views of others, and our very selves.”
William Andrews, Director of the Ogden Museum adds: "Regarding
these paintings is like slowly opening the flood gates of a dam and releasing a
reservoir of meaning. At a distance you
first see the artist's constructed image, then all the disparate materials that
make the image and contribute to its meaning are revealed on closer approach. Juan Logan has created a
masterful body of work that is rich in allusion and narrative but is ultimately
decipherable and quite poetic."
Born in
Nashville, Tennessee, Juan Logan now lives and works in Belmont, North
Carolina. At once abstract and representational, his large mixed media
paintings, sculptures and installations address issues of place and power as
they relate to the history of the Civil Rights Movement and contemporary
culture. Through repetition of personal iconic symbols, Logan's narrative is a
commentary about cycles of oppression and the complex definitions of identity,
making visible the hierarchical structures and social stereotypes that shape
individuals, institutions, and the material and mental landscapes of
contemporary life.
