Torso No. 1 (after The Dead Christ Supported By An Angel, Antonello Da Messina) and Torso No. 2 (after Adam & Eve, by Cranach) are both from Logan’s Imaginary Europeans series of blue pencil drawings on mylar that reference canonical Old Master paintings.

In his graphic work, Logan combines a realist figurative tradition with acutely observed botanical studies that verge on scientific in their exquisite detail. Logan evolves a visual language that explores the intersections between masculinity, identity, memory and place. In previous work related to his current practice and the present drawings, Logan investigated his own body as an exclusive site of exploration. Employing a strategy of visual quotation, mined from place and experience, Logan re-wilds his body as a queer embodiment of nature. This narrative shift engages ideas of beauty, mortality, empirical explorations of landscape, and overlapping art-historical motifs.

Zachari Logan (b. 1980) is a queer Canadian poet and artist whose work across drawing, ceramics, and installation practices is exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including the current exhibition Remembrance at the Peabody Essex Museum and a group show, Edge of All Things, at CLAMP in New York. In his current work, Logan’s body remains a catalyst, but no longer the sole focus.

Logan has exhibited widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is found in private and public collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Remai Modern, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (NMOCA), 21cMuseums Hotel Collection, TD Bank and Thetis Foundation, among others.