Cut Flowers, After Mary Delany
Artist
Zachari Logan
(Canadian, born 1980)
Date2015
Mediumceramic, acrylic
Dimensions40 pieces, various dimensions
Credit LineThe Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Gift of the artist in memory of Peter Purdue 2016.
Object number2016.8.1
Classificationssculpture
On View
Not on viewCut Flowers, After Mary Delany makes reference to the 17th century artist Mary Delany, whose paper-mosaic botanicals are in the collection of the British Museum. Beyond functioning as homage to Delany, the work alludes to the act of picking flowers or cutting them for a bouquet as a gift or as a sign of mourning. As such they represent love and memory—suspended in the moment between life and decay. These fragile flowers are carefully hand-built in clay and painted.
Zachari Logan works mainly in drawing, ceramics and installation practices, producing a dialogue between queerness and emblems of the overlooked Prairie ecology while engaging with old master motifs. Logan aims to confront notions of narcissism and beauty implicit in the gaze, and to address ideas of mortality and bodily vulnerabilities, regardless of the perceived virility of a subject.
Zachari Logan works mainly in drawing, ceramics and installation practices, producing a dialogue between queerness and emblems of the overlooked Prairie ecology while engaging with old master motifs. Logan aims to confront notions of narcissism and beauty implicit in the gaze, and to address ideas of mortality and bodily vulnerabilities, regardless of the perceived virility of a subject.
