Raymond Logan: Icons Eclectic

Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present RAYMOND LOGAN: ICONS ECLECTIC, the gallery’s fifth solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based painter. The exhibition features the artist's recent paintings in oil and and opens on June 13th with a reception from 3-6pm and continues through July 11th.

Raymond Logan is a representational artist whose work exists at the intersection of realism and abstraction. Deeply grounded in highly skilled draftsmanship, Logan’s paintings are created through the liberal application of oil paint to a meticulously planned pencil drawing on the canvas. Using a palette knife for brush, Logan is balancing the precision of the underdrawing with extensive color experimentation in the paint application.

Logan is known for his wide ranging subject matter. The unifying element is that rendering the subject or object must be a challenge to the artist. The subject becomes the entry point for the viewer to dive into the richly worked surfaces. To achieve the effect, Logan works wet on wet in oil which means once he begins a section of a painting, he must work it through to the end. This can mean an entire day dedicated to one segment of a large composition. These paintings, while exuberant in their color, are deeply ordered.

Logan is drawn to universal subject matter that creates common ground between painting and viewer. Human beings are connected by people, places, and things. Those connections are based on memories, on lived experiences, on emotional response.

RAYMOND LOGAN received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1988. He has been exhibiting widely on the West Coast with work featured in galleries and at the Pasadena Museum of History as well as art fairs in Seattle, San Francisco, and multiple locations in Southern California. His work is featured in numerous private collections throughout the United States. Raymond Logan lives and works in Glendale, California.