artist statement 
I work with paint and digital photography. I use the photographs of portraits as references for my paintings. Different aspects of these two mediums help me improve on the other. The craft of painting faces allows me to focus on more details when photographing portraits, the same way that photographing portraits allows me to gain more knowledge about the angles, shapes, and overall structure of faces when I am painting the subject.

In this body of work, for each painting I picked a different material to paint on, such as cotton fabric, checks, and canvas. I did this to explore the effect that happens to the paint depending on how I manipulate the piece. In my art I am thinking about transparency with and in material, and for me that serves as a comment on society’s treatment of women. 

I consider the manipulation process I use as a destructive process. I’m working with the ideas of using a traditional/conventional piece of art (like a painted portrait) that hangs on the wall and then I vandalize it and invade it. 

I’m taking these women and stripping them of their identities, viewers can still tell they are a person but through the manipulation and obstruction their identity is covered. This idea that women are being covered up goes back to the controversial idea that women need to cover up, if not, they are not complying with society’s expectations of them.  This topic is something I constantly see in social media. It has affected me to a point that I have had to make my social media only accessible to my most trusted family/contacts. The physical representation of hiding and stripping the women is also a mental representation of what happens to them after being bullied into ‘hiding’. 

I appreciate and find solidarity in the ideas Jenny Saville presents in the following quote.

“There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.”

bio
I am Logan Bartle, 21 years old, and I currently live in Sullivan Missouri. I achieved my Associate in Fine Arts in 2020 from East Central College. I started my photography business, Logan Jean Photography, in June 2020. I will be graduating in December of 2022 with my Bachelor in Fine Arts. I plan to use my degrees and experience to continue to grow my photography business into a traveling business and continue painting and selling my art.

contact information
Loganjeanphotography20@gmail.com
Instagram: loganjean_photography