Wish You Were Here
Elegies, Juan Logan’s most recent body of work, focusses on the fragility of human connectedness within the contemporary world’s social and geopolitical domains. The narratives within Elegies describe inherited memories, pursuits for freedom, and the complexities of place. Interconnected networks overlay fields of clouds—a recurring motif in Elegies that“refers to our dreams, thoughts, and aspirations.” Logan’s relational webs reinforce our obligation to one another and to unconditional empathy as a means against indifference.
Through Logan’s understanding of modern-day diasporas and their extensive consequences, these works question parity among class, race, and beyond, implying that there is more thatunites than divides us.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
Atlanta Fulton Public Library, Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Davidson College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Gantt Center for African American Art and Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina
Gaston County Museum of Art and History, Dallas, North Carolina
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
Henry Copeland Art Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey
International Arts and Artists, Washington, District of Columbia
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina
Johns Hopkins University, Weinberg Building, Baltimore, Maryland
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Arts/Industry Collection, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Museum of African-American Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University, Durham
National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
National Museum of African Art, District of Columbia
North Carolina Arts Council, Artworks for State Buildings, Raleigh, North Carolina
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art, Asbury, New Jersey
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communications, Washington, District of Columbia
Elegy LXXVIII, 2020, 22 x 30
Acrylic on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper
Elegy LXVIII, 2019
Acrylic on Shaped canvas
83 ½ x 67 ½
Elegy LXXIII, 2019
Acrylic on Shaped canvas
83 ½ x 67 ½
Elegy LXVII, 2019
Acrylic on Shaped canvas
83 ½ x 67 ½
Elegy LXIX, 2019, Acrylic on shaped canvas, 48" x 60"
Elegy CXIV, 2021, 22 x 30
Acrylic on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper
Hand and Ring #2, 2010
Acrylic, ink, and collage
On BFK Rives paper
20 x 20
Dreams #8, 2010
Acrylic, ink, and collage
20 x 20
Elegy CIV, 2021, 22 x 30
Acrylic on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper paper
I'll Keep Your Secrets
Acrylic paint on Baltic Birch panel
22 x 30
Elegy XXX, 2020, 22 x 30
Acrylic on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper
Elegy XXXI, 2020, 22 x 30
Acrylic on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper
