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to hold on to—are really just these tiny little bits and pieces of something that we’ve experienced that we felt, at the moment, was so important, we never wanted to forget it. And we struggle sometimes to retain that.” Logan’s own path led him from Nashville to Howard University, the historic black university in Washington, D.C., where he studied biology. But he left Howard to study art at Clark College (which would become Clark Atlanta University) and, after he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1967, enlisted in the Air Force and served as a jet engine mechanic during the Vietnam War. Upon his return from duty, Logan established himself as a major American artist long before earning his MFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998. His work appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the 1970s and ’80s, from Charlotte’s Jerald Melberg Gallery and Mint Museum Randolph to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and New York’s Parrish Art Musum. A retired professor of studio art at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, he’s also lectured at institutions including Kent State University, San Francisco Art Institue, and Howard, the school he departed for art. Today, as he produced new work in Belmont, his pieces appear in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art, the New York Public Library and several other worldclass institutions. Public works appear as far from Charlotte as a massive mural in Lubbock, Texas, but locally, his commissions have also adorned spaces like Charlotte Transportation Center, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, and elsewhere. Logan’s work has both evolved and returned to past explorations. It’s largely abstract, but it employs symbols—clouds, boats, human heads— that he repeats as motifs throughout his mixedmedia work. “I did my first head in 1967,” he says. “I’ve always felt our imaginings take place there first; it has little to do with the rest of our bodies. It’s always about how we perceive things.” Clouds represent our longings, and boats act as symbols of the vehicles that carry our hopes and dreams. Logan combines and arranges items from his bank of symbols, through varied media, to communicate with viewers. “I arrived at that place (in my practice) where I simply wanted to create good work and be able to explore something in depth,” Logan says. “I wanted to arrive in a place where I stopped being in a hurry. It’s really about giving it as much as it needs for as long as it needs it.” LAUREN PIEMONT is a freelance art consultant living in Charlotte.
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