Past MOCRA Events
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A Conversation with Gary Logan
April 14, 2019
Trinidadian-American artist Gary Logan uses the visual language of abstraction to convey encounters with the sublime and explore challenging dimensions of the human experience. In this conversation with art historian Olubukola Gbadegesin, Logan discusses his influences on his work including Taoism and the Romantic tradition in painting, as well as major themes in his work such as humanity's relationship with the environment, race, and sexuality.
The conversation took place in conjunction with the MOCRA exhibition Gary Logan: Elements.
Gary Logan was born on the island of Trinidad in 1970 and raised in the United States. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University. He currently resides in Miami, Florida, and devotes his time to painting, teaching, and directing a visual arts program at a school for the arts. Along with individual and group exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, S茫o Paulo, and South Florida, his artwork has been highlighted in periodicals such as Bostonia magazine, and the literary journals Callaloo and AGNI. In 1999, he and poet Eric McHenry were awarded The Phillip Guston Prize for their artist collaboration featured in AGNI.
Olubukola Gbadegeshin holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. With a focus on the art of the African Diaspora, her research interests include photography, portraiture, transnationalism, cultural politics, and the West African film industry. She has contributed responses, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries to the African Arts journal, H-AfrArts H-Net Reviews, Encyclopedia of African Thought, and Contemporary African Art Since 1980.
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Gary Logan and Olubukola Gbadegesin.
Exhibition | |
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2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 |
Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
2017-04-20 |
鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
2016-09-25 |
Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥 |
2015-12-06 |
So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
2014-11-15 |
John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 |
Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
2014-02-23 |
鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥 in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
2013-10-02 |
Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
2013-03-02 |
Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
2012-11-11 |
Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
2012-05-20 |
Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥 |
2012-03-27 |
2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
2011-10-06 |
2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art鈥 |
2011-05-01 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥 |
2010-11-15 |
Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
2010-03-28 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
2009-12-01 |
Day With(out) Art |
2009-11-15 |
Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
2009-03-29 |
Art and the Religious Imagination |
2008-04-15 |
Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥 |
2007-10-07 |
Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
2007-11-04 |
Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
2007-09-16 |
Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥 |
2007-03-30 |
Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥 |
2006-12-01 |
Day With(out) Art |
2005-12-04 |
Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥 |
2003-09-07 |
To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
2002-05-04 |
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
2002-04-30 |
Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
2002-01-31 |
Cloudlanders |
2002-01-26 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥 |
2000-11-30 |
Day With(out) Art |
2001-04-06 |
Bare Naked Statues in concert |
1999-04-15 |
Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
1999-03-27 |
Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥 |
1998-03-22 |
Renaissance and Modern |
1997-11-15 |
The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
1997-07-24 |
Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art |
1997-06-07 |
Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
1997-02-27 |
The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
1996-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
1996-05-19 |
The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
1995-05-20 |
Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥 |
1995-05-04 |
Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥 |
1995-02-05 |
Lynn Hague in recital |
1994-11-13 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥 |
1994-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
1994-11-05 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥 |
1994-11-01 |
The Amici String Quartet in recital |
1994-10-15 |
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
1993-10-29 |
I Remember Alvin |
1993-11-05 |
An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
1992-11-07 |
The Artist and Sacred Space |