Jim Logan
"Resilience"
I named this exhibition “Resilience” because that word defines what I have witnessed after forty years of painting. A lot has changed over that 40 years - a lot has improved for many communities but the social realisms such outdated infrastructure and poverty are still prevalent in many Indigenous communities. This collection of work touches on the definition of that word - the importance of holding on to traditional knowledge, the challenges we must endure regarding climate change, inherited poverty, surviving colonial and intergenerational trauma and thoughts of leaving it all behind to find something better. Resilience is about surviving and perseverance, about standing strong and proud despite what history has thrown at you. I hope you enjoy and reflect on the stories presented here.
Exhibition runs October 19 - 30th, 2024
BIOGRAPHY:
Jim Logan is a Canadian artist with a mission. His mission is using his art to depict what he calls the “Quiet Condition.”
An easygoing, soft-spoken Metis, Jim is a skilled graphic artist, a missionary, and a candid observer of native life in the North. Although originally from British Columbia, it was the time spent in the Yukon Territory that inspired his mission. The “Quiet Condition” he found there was the broad spectrum of life on a Northern Indian Reserve. The tenderness and love in his work, contrasted with alcoholism and despair, has shown Jim to be an accurate and painfully honest commentator of native life.
Jim began to paint as a very young man, inspired by his mother, a hobby painter. He later studied graphic design at David Thompson University and the expressionistic work of artists like Edvard Munch and Van Gogh. He contrives to use his art as a graphic social comment as well as inspiration to many young Native artists. His honesty and sensitivity have earned him international recognition. Jim is undoubtedly an exceptional artist and a voice of his people.
Affiliations
Eastern Aboriginal Artist Collective
1999 - Present Founding Member and current Chief
The EAAC works to promote self-determination
in the arts for artists of various mediums.
1998- Member of Red Poets Society
The Red Poets Society promotes poetry to aboriginal students of all ages
with readings by Society members, Indigenous poets from other parts of the world and by
organizing ‘Wordshops' for emerging poets.
Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA)
1995-96 Appointed to Past-Chair executive position
1991-95 Elected Co-Chair of the National Executive
1987-91 Board Member - Yukon Territory and B.C.
ATLATL ( American First Nations Artist Organization)
1992-94 Member of the Second Circle Advisory Board
Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry (SYANA)
1988-89 Co-Founder and President
Achievements
1999 - 2001 Participating as a curator with the Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia in the First Peoples Secretariat of the Canada Council for the
Arts, Aboriginal Curator Residency Program.
1998 - Present Member of the Arts Infusion Committee, Nova Scotia Arts
Council, a experimental program to introduce new ways of learning
focusing on the arts as a means of teaching.
1997 - Selected as the Canadian Aboriginal representative by the Sydney
Olympic Organizing Committee for the exhibition and artist camp,
Offshore/On-Site, at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The art camp is a
collaborative work project between Aboriginal peoples from around the
world and was designed to promote the addition of more culture into
future Olympics.
1993 - Appointed Advisor to the BC Cultural Ministry in setting up an
Aboriginal Art Awards Program.
1993 - Assisted Kamloops Art Gallery in development of an acquisitions
policy regarding the collection of Aboriginal Art.
Film/Video
War Against the Indians, Film, Harry Rasky, Producer, CBC/NFB Toronto,
1992
Drums, Video, CBC Television, 1992
A Requiem for Our Children, Focus North, 1991, CBC Yellowknife
Sleeping Awake, Film/Video Marjorie Beaucage/Shirley Cheechoo, 1991 NFB.
Selected Publications
The Trickster Shift, Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, Allan
J. Ryan, UBC Press, University of Washington Press. 1999
Thunder Bay Art Gallery: Permanent Collection, R. William Hill and
Lee-Ann Martin, Thunder Bay Art Gallery Publication.
Classical Aboriginal Series, Allan J. Ryan, Yukon Art Center catalogue,
1994
INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives, Gerald McMaster/Lee-Ann
Martin, Douglas & McIntyre, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1992
Jim Logan the Painter Prophet, Canadian Lutheran Magazine, Dec. 1991
Lower Than the Angels: The Weight of Jim Logan's Art, The Canadian
Journal of Native Studies, Vol.10 No.1 1990, Brandon University
Authorship
Homeboys, exhibition cataloque featuring Alex Janvier and Alan syliboy,
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, April 7, 2001
Re-claiming History, exhibition brochure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
June 22, 2000
Mirrored, exhibition brochure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, February 18,
2000
Art As Fulcrum: De Facto Magazine, Brussels, Belgium, October 1999
Metis, A North American Hybrid. Indian Summer exhibition catalogue
article, Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium, September,
1999
Cultural Awareness, A paper presented to Aboriginal Tourism Team Canada,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, August, 1999
Art Reviewer for Mi'kmaq Maliseet Nation News. October 1999 to present.
Group Exhibitions
2000 - Who Stole the Teepee, Smithsonian Institute for the American
Indian, NY. NY - traveling exhibition
The Hands of Our Ancestors, South Shore Art Centre, Cohasset, Mass. USA
Contemporary Perspectives in Contemporary Indian Art, Jacobson House,
Norman, Oklahoma
Cultural Memories, Cape Breton University College, Sydney Nova Scotia
1999 - 2000- Indian Summer, Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium
1998 - Responses, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997 - Off Shore/On Site, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
- TRANSITIONS, Indian Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, touring exhibit- Paris,
Hamilton, New Zealand/ Taipei, Taiwan
1996 - Thunder Bay Art Gallery Permanent Collection Exhibition, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1996 - Grand Opening- Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario
1995-96 - Basket Bead and Quill, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Touring Exhibition
1995 - Re-Imergence, Southern Okanagan Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
1994 - Challenging the Status Quo, Art Gallery of Southern Alberta, Edmonton Public Art
Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery
1993 - Contemporary Native Art of the West Coast, Western Gallery, Western
Washington State University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
1993 - Canada's First People, A Celebration of Contemporary Native Art, Cross Canada
Tour as well as Tokyo Japan
1992 - New Territories, 350/500Years After, Cote De Neige Gallery, Montreal
1992 - INDIGENA, Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, toured, Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Winnipeg,Man. Dalhousie Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, The Heard Museum, Phoenix Az. USA, The Glenbow
Museum, Calgary, AB
1988 - Spirit of the Lubicon, Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton, AB
1986 - Yukon Pavilion, EXPO 86, Vancouver, BC
1984 - Points of View, Yukon Territorial Government Buildings, Whitehorse, Yukon
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 24 Songs Bearclaw Gallery, Edmonton , Alberta. 1998
love affair: the book of joan,
Dalhousie Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
(Traveling exhibition including Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw, Sask.
Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory in 1997)
Moments Between Heaven and Earth, Gallery Phillip, Toronto, Ontario
Re-Representing
McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, Kleinburg, Ontario
1995
Images in Collage
K'san National Exhibition Center, K'san BC
Recent Works of Jim Logan
Yukon Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territtory
1994
Classical Aboriginal Series
Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
1990
A Requiem for Our Children
Rosemont Gallery, Regina Sask.
Various University Galleries including Lakehead University, Thunder
Bay, Ontario, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, University of Calgary,
Calgary Alberta, Guelph University, Windsor Ontario.
1987
The Weight, Territorial Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
1986
Yukon Pavilion Featured Artist, EXPO 86, Vancouver BC
1985
Tuchone Images, Town Square Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Homeland
Artist: Jim Logan
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30 x 40 Inches
Code No.: JL20
Price: $8,250.00
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