Logan Reynolds

bio

Logan Reynolds is originally from Colorado. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2017. He was a Project Network resident at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skælskør, Denmark in 2018 and has participated in many group shows across the U.S. He completed his MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 2023. He works in clay to fabricate familiar material objects that are performative of a collective middle-class American memory.

Artist statement

I most often work in clay to fabricate familiar material objects that are performative of a collective middle-class American memory. These consist of distorted yet representational ceramic sculptures - cartoonish echoes of objects of the home such as portrait photographs, food packaging, and consumer electronics. My work examines the arrangement and display of these domestic objects ultimately as expressive acts, and that there is energy embedded in the reciprocal relationship between people and their physical surroundings. In ceramics, I see the transmutational properties that allow for preservation of gesture as analogous to the simultaneous malleability and rigidity of the nature of memory, our default index for making sense of the world.

The content within my work is observational and semi-autobiographical yet draws from popular culture and media streams in search of a more universal pulse. I am interested in the expression of sociocultural status and methods of indoctrination driven from sources that are presumed honest and safe. By bridging gaps within inter-generational relationships and value systems, my work reaches to reconcile feelings of ambivalence to understand the social and moral lineages from the environment which I was raised in. A pair of bloodshot eyeballs focus backwards to construct a stereoscopic image of the past; one sees an innocent, nostalgic fondness for what once was while the other has become skeptical, seeking to unmask romanticized memory in pursuit of a sense of objectivity afforded by distance and time. I hope that my work may extract and affirm a perspective that comfort may be found within conflict.