PAST SHOWS

Elder Gallery
presents

Juan Logan’s
Thirty Years of Creating Art

November 4, 2005

During the month of November Elder Gallery in Charlotte will present a thirty-year retrospective of the work of North Carolina artist Juan Logan. Logan’s work has been featured in over 250 solo and group exhibitions across the country including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the Carnegie Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Speaking about his art, Logan states, “I’ve never been a great talker. Making art is how I relate the best. The more I work, the more I realize I’m still looking for a way of talking.” Logan’s artwork inspires the viewer to ponder what the artist is saying and challenges the viewer to carry on an imaginary dialogue with the artist.

“Traditionally, as a culture, we talk about the things we believe in rather than practice those things,” says Logan. Thirty Years of Creating Art explores the life and times of an African-American artist who has heard much conversation of what people believe. His exhibition graphically depicts actions that people have taken which both support and contradict what they purport.

Thirty Years of Creating Art showcases the vast artistic talent that Logan has developed over three decades. Paintings, sculpture, mixed media and print-making will tell Juan Logan’s story as we travel into his world.

Logan’s work is included in over sixty corporate and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Museum of African American Art of Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has received grants and fellowships from many sources, including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center- Arts/Industry Program; the North Carolina Arts Council, the Lannan Foundation; Phillip Morris Corporation; University of North Carolina; and the McColl Center for Visual Arts Residency.

Logan is Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On November 4th the artist will participate in a gallery talk beginning at 7:00 p.m. during the opening event at Elder Gallery. The exhibition will run through November 30, 2005.