The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan

An art exhibition curated by Wayne Baerwaldt and Leah Taylor

Oct. 5–Dec. 15
College Art Galleries
Peter MacKinnon Building, 107 Administration Pl.

Opening Reception
Friday, Oct. 5
7 pm

Gallery hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–4:30 pm | Saturday 12-4 pm

Free and open to the public

Info: (306) 966-4571 | art.usask.ca

About this exhibition
The dialogue between Logan and Bleckner’s works reveals many obvious shared motifs and materials—flowers, birds, camouflage patterns and abstract human presence, oblique references to death. These shared references are only part of the picture, however. On a deeper level, the proposed curatorial investigation will look at the artists’ output over the last three to five years, a continuum of art production via individual contributions and, most recently, collaborative artmaking. Their shared aesthetic representation is the means to create a context of understanding of visibility/invisibility, sexuality, selfhood, the fragility of love and the omnipresence of death. The proposed exhibition aims to create new contexts in which Bleckner’s work may be read retrospectively through the work of Logan, and Logan’s through the work of Bleckner.

The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan is an imaginative and experimental pairing that will highlight the artists’ very different but linked engagements with nostalgia and conviction. The proposed exhibition in part chronicles the relationship between two artists who’ve worked and lived contemporaneously. Bleckner and Logan initially crossed paths in New York when Logan exhibited in a Chelsea gallery below Bleckner’s studio. The relationship is one of two kindred spirits separated in age by decades while recognizing a shared artistic investigation of the subjects mentioned above, all within the embrace of creative play, experimentation in styles and diverse forms. There is a real openness to their collaboration, with the willingness to extend the results of this relationship to a broad base of viewers.

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