Choir

D. D. D. D. is pleased to present Choir, a new series of work by Logan Grider, an artist currently based in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in more than ten years. Underlying the works in the exhibition is Grider’s characteristic approach to painting, where a sensitive understanding of the medium’s formal qualities result in works that immediately engage the eye with a sensuousness of color and intricacy in complex spaces. The show comprises work executed in egg tempera and more recently, in oil. In both cases, Grider makes full use of the different qualities of the medium he works with. His manipulation of the transparency in the tempera paintings create works that reflect, emit, and contain light. In his oil paintings, Grider retains this use of color and light while further supplementing it with the medium’s physicality to subtly sculpt cavities and to give substance to light and dark. Beyond the immediate sumptuousness of color and form, Grider’s paintings also act as sets of prepositions that create conceptual arenas in which an attentive viewer can find an ever-reflexive pictorial logic where paradox and harmony comingle. Initially concrete spaces often fold back into themselves, and the solid shapes dissolve into shadow and void. While the paintings display the visual rigor of Grider’s practice, in this space of paradox, they are also instilled with a feeling of intense mystery and weight. Logan Grider (b. 1980 Salem, OR) received his MFA from Yale University; studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and studied at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland, and at Carraig-na-gCat, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation residency in County Cork, Ireland. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Swarthmore College where he has taught since 2009.