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**LOGAN CROMPTON**
Bio
**Logan Crompton** is an artist from Kansas City, MO currently based in Philadelphia. Their work explores mythmaking and magic
through the illusionary possibilities of painting, specifically looking at memes as material. Their work explores community dynamics
as it relates to social media and spiritualism as it relates to the internet, blurring boundaries between irl and online spaces.
Crompton received a BFA in painting and art history from the Kansas City Art Institute and is currently pursuing their MFA at
Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Crompton was a Mellon Curatorial Fellow, an AXA art prize finalist, and has shown work
in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and New York.
Artist Statement
Through the abstraction of the Black figure in digital space, I intend to offer anonymity and protection to combat objectification, fetishization, and commodification of the Black experience. I do this through reappropriation of memes utilizing images of Black people, or aspects of Black culture. In these memes where Black people are the subjects, I abstract and obscure, emphasizing the making process in the viewing experience.
My practice embraces the illusionistic possibilities of painting surface, it’s ability to promote, invent, and transform myths. My research, material explorations, and practice situate digital memes as a compositional/visual strategy. This materializes itself through the layering and collaging of transparencies. My work calls upon the history of memes both online and offline, where memes exist as all forms of encoded dissemination. I embrace a meme’s potential to transport audiences and transform subjects through its mythology.
I utilize varying combinations of fabric, iconography, machine, and hand interventions of sewing, drawing, image transfers, laser engraving, and text in my work. I rely specifically on photoshop, packing tape transfers, cyanotype, and sublimation transfer to imbed the material matrixes of a surface within the appropriated image.
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