Artistides Logothetis

Resident Artist at (Re)Create in the Spring - Fall of 2016

I am part of a diaspora. I navigate different longings. I want to assimilate, to rebel, to absorb, to release. Of course these dichotomies are facile and exemplary of the strictures of language, rather than the true multiplicities of experience. It is these multiplicities that are most interesting to me because they offer a more real representation of the events in our perception.

While my Greek ethnicity informs my fascination with the structure of Anglo-American class and culture (including the regulation of race), my gender experience informs my fascination with identity constructs from fashion, to color, to "taste", as well as the organization and codes of power, sex, and control. In addition, the constant changes in science and technology elicit in me feelings of wonder and concern. I explore these detail-oriented investigations through my art making process.

The contradictions and structural errors of society's systems are major sources of inspiration for me. I find that these paradigms are often tenuous despite their seeming dominance. The absurdity of daily experience, my wariness of hierarchies, and my general aversion to didactic narrative, has led me to metaphoric abstraction. The ensuing narrative, composed of mostly essential imagery, dots and lines for example, and its origination from process, reflects my interest not in specificity and oration, but rather in exploration and possibility. Still, I often work with non-art and found materials expressly for the varied metaphors inherent in them. By embracing notions that are seemingly ambiguous, whether manifested in a single artwork or extracted from a body of work, the process of observation will be enriched and perhaps revised. Specifically, I encourage the viewer of my work to visualize alternatives to hierarchies and constructs in terms of color and perspective and also in terms of socialized ideas.

Artist Statement: Born in Athens, Greece in 1967, Aristides Logothetis completed his BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA in 1996 and then graduated with an MFA from the University of New Orleans, LA, in 2001. He was resident artist at the Schloss Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck, Austria in 2001 and in Fort George, Annotto Bay, Jamaica in 2002.

In 2001, Logothetis had a solo exhibition titled Meta-Perceptions that traveled to the Brown Gallery at Duke University, Durham, NC, the Fine Arts Gallery at the University of New Orleans, LA and the Kenyon Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design, Provincetown, MA. He has also participated in group shows at Galerie Im Andechshof, Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2001), Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2001), Bing Bang at the Isaac Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA (2001) and The Next Wave at the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA (1999).

COLLECTIONS (selected) 

Athens Municipal Museum, Athens, Greece

Bershad Design Associates, Boston, MA

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Keramida Environmental Inc., Indianapolis, IN

Q-Division Studios, Boston, MA

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA