17 Oct 2008 to 16 Nov 2008
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Logan Grider Clamour, 2008 Oil on canvas over panel, 20 x 22 inch
october 17 - november 16, 2008 opening friday, october 17, 6-8
Thierry Goldberg Projects is proud to present Logan Grider in his first solo exhibition. His latest paintings offer a mix of Constructivism and classic abstraction. In clamoring arrangements, shape, color, and form commingle with Grider's desire to, "construct representations of sounds, emotional states, conversations, and actions." The ensuing mélange of techniques, history, and memory always stand one step beyond recognition, on the tip of one's tongue. Illusive, comic, and warm, the paintings invite the viewers to question the depicted space as well as their own realities.
In sometimes-playful sometimes-tumultuous cumulation, Grider's spaces assemble elements of 20th century abstraction as touchstones for composing contemporary emotional contexts. The vernacular is consistent with Precisionism and Cubism pulsing with the formal inventiveness of Thomas Nozkowski, and the humor of Milton Avery. Rubbing, washing, scrapping, and blending Grider breathes a lightness and curiosity into the heavy vintage modernist hand.
With abrupt one-word titles, the paintings boldly announce themselves as Clamor, Ambition, Homily, Slip. The viewer is then lead into subtle riffs and resonances of ambiguously familiar spaces. Dangling from the edge of certainty, the paintings hang as bold question marks for the viewers' interaction.
Logan Grider was born in Salem, Oregon and currently lives and works in Connecticut. He holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, having completed programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The International School of Art, Italy. He has exhibited in group shows at Yvon Lambert Gallery, NY; Jack Tilton Gallery, NY; Baumgartner Gallery, NY; and Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA.
Logan Grider Born Salem, Oregon
EXHIBITIONS
2008 HVCCA Auction, Yvon Lambert Gallery, NYC Strange Folks, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 MFA Thesis, Yale University, New Haven, CT First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, NYC MFA Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2006 The Armory Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC Summer Group Show, Baumgartner Gallery, NYC Therapy Group Show, Ph.D. Leigh Haskell, ME Returning MFA Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2005 First Year MFA Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2003 BFA Exhibition, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
EDUCATION
2007 MFA Yale University 2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2003 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2001 The International School of Art, Italy
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006 Artist Pension Trust, New York 2006 Skowhegan Fellowship, Yale University 2006 Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship, Yale University 2000 Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2000 FYP Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lacreta, Maria, “Strangefolks” Weekly Dig, January 9, 2008 Cook, Greg, “Ill Wind” The Boston Phoenix, January 18, 2008 Crow, Kelly, “The Old Masters” Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2006 Palimpsest Vol.4 Yale University Arts and Literary Journal, 2006
