About Me
Linley B. L O G A N
Bio
Linley is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and designer with his creative foundation including his Seneca traditional arts. His applied artistic statement is conveyed through contemporary artistic expression. Linley’s contemporary artistic experience includes printmaking, painting, pottery, traditional beaded jewelry and contemporary jewelry, 3-dimensional arts, sculpture, glass, and design work. His fine arts background includes Industrial design, graphic design and set design.
Linley is an award-winning artists, he has a 35-year history of exhibiting his work including internationally, and he has co-curated contemporary indigenous international art exhibits. He has attended six International Indigenous Visual Arts Gatherings by invitation.
Artist statement
The Artistic language I speak with is a creative expression of the natural world’s strength and the origin of our birth from these life-giving forces of nature being the spirit of life.
There is an overlying message in the thread of life tying us to our past to weave my creative language together anecdotally. This woven thread of life tying us to our past acknowledges the power of identity in the spirit of living culture.
I am inspired that these artistic messages come from deep within a confident culturally grounded spirit creatively expressed as beyond the mundane in line and form to reveal a perspective of a Real dimension in human intellect as we are (Ongwhehoweh, “the Real People”).
Testimonial
The term “renaissance man” describes a person with many talents in a wide range of disciplines.
It’s an accurate term to describe Linley B. Logan’s multidisciplinary contemporary artists' work that covers a broad spectrum of art including printmaking, painting, carving, sculpture, design, curation, and more.
Coast Weekend, Astoria, OR
Testimonial
Logan’s cultural portraits reveal his approach to spiritual expression through abstraction. To Logan, the artist's role is to nurture the knowledge and strength of Native philosophies through the expressive practice of imaging and creatively abstracting his communities “traditional cultural values,” as embodied in the metonym of Ongwehonwe”ka’ (Our Indigenous way of Life).
Neal B Keating, Iroquois Art, Power, and History
Select Solo shows
Indigenous Intrinsic MANiFestations (S) Royal Nebekar Gallery, Astoria, OR 2017
Intrinsic Manifestation - Print Exhibit (S) Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, MT 2013
Intrinsic Manifestation (S) Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center 2011
Essence & Intrigue (S) Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. 2010
Select Group shows
Allegories of Transformation. (G) Pace Fine Art Center, Parker, CO. 2021
Paint, Pixels, Print (G) Kennith J. Minneart Gallery, SSPCC, Olympia, WA 2020
Puhoro (G) Hamilton Museum of Art, NZ 2019
Yehaw’ - Pushing Up the Sky (G) King Street Station, Seattle, WA 2019
Stereotypes (G) Iroquois Indian Museum, Howe's Cave, NY 4/18
Indigenous Brilliance (G) England, Italy, Spain, Holland, Scotland 2013-16
Te Pu O Te Wheke (G) Nga Puhi International Indigenous Art Festival, NZ 2014
Publications:
Puhoro o mau International Indigenous Visual Arts Gathering, NZ 2019
Te Pu O Te Wheke Toi NgaPuhi, Reaching Out To The World 2014
Pukaea Native To Native, Indigenous Artists Together, NZ 2014
Pictures and Power: Haudenosaunee and Iroquois Painting, NZ 2011
Cultural Luminaries Illuminating the Past, Lighting the Way Into the Future. 2006
Where We Stand, Contemporary Iroquois Artists
Fenimore House Museum, Cooperstown, NY 1997
Iroquois Voices, Iroquois Visions: A Celebration of Contemporary Six Nations Arts 1996