ROB LOGAN

Logan's complex, macabre works on paper and canvas borrow from surrealist approaches to mark-making such as frottage, and reveal an interest in phenomenology, perception, and psychoanalysis. Logan builds up the image with layers of charcoal, paint and varnish, emphasizing some areas to highly detailed intensity, while allowing others to recede. This suggests an almost photographic sense of space, the image looming into focus from uncertain gloom. The dark turns of his interwoven structures writhe and fluoresce as if alive, suggestive of many organic, possibly alien, sources. What exactly is being represented is impossible to identify. Analogies to Giger’s beautiful horror creations are evident, alongside suggestions of tangled vegetation or internal organs. Although the works are not intended to have a single clear meaning, Logan’s themes are embodiment, abjection, techno-paranoia and apocalypse.

Rob Logan lives and works in London. He graduated with and MA Fine Art from Central St. Martins in 2008. Group shows include Beast, Standpoint Gallery, London; Vienna/ London, WUK Projektraum, Vienna, Austria 2009; Transimulation, The Elephant Rooms/ Raymond Gun, London; Exquisite Decay, Château d'Alba, France 2009; Lust and Luxuria, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2008.