Zachari Logan, a gay artist from Saskatoon best known for his nude self portraits, will be unveiling a 10 foot by 18 foot painting at New York’s Craig Scott Gallery this weekend. The work is very Canadian — featuring parkas, pussies and the artist’s handsome self. Even the work’s title, Beautiful Losers, evokes Leonard Cohen’s classic art school novel. 
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“I have absolutely no problem with objectification. If you’re using an image, you’re always objectifying it in a way,” Logan told me a couple of weeks ago, in preparation for a monthlong exhibit at Ottawa’s hip La Petite Mort gallery. For a guy who hates talking about his own work, I had a great conversation with him about religious, sexual and, uh, terrorist-y themes in his work.
Find more of his work on his website, zacharilogan.com.
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