Sarah Logan is an observer and interpreter of the natural world.   Her current ceramic series explores the relationship between scientific inquiry and artistic practice, referencing direct and indirect tools of observation to experience the intertidal environment. Through intimate, small-scale objects that evoke their organic subjects, her work encourages sustained attention, investigation, and curiosity.

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Current Work

Ex vivo-out of the Living is an ongoing series of artworks informed by my work as a citizen scientist.  The ceramic sculptures are hand-formed and finished in a wood-fire kiln.  They consider life in some of its smallest forms: the various phytoplankton and aggregated colonies of bryozoans found in our coastal waters.   Using sumi ink and graphite on paper, the rain drawings are made by placing these materials outside in a redwood forest, to collaborate with the emergence of rain drops at a given moment. Using both direct observation and scientific tools of observation such as microscopes, phytoplankton nets and field guides, the work explores the intersection and margins between art and science.