JUAN LOGAN: Without Stopping

JUAN LOGAN:
Without Stopping

May 9, 2025 — February 14, 2026

Mobile Museum of Art (MMofA) believes in the power of art to strengthen our community while unlocking new ways of seeing the world. In May 2025, MMofA will host Juan Logan’s Without Stopping, a timely exhibition that questions, creates conversation, and fosters empathy. An internationally celebrated artist currently residing in North Carolina, Logan’s works can be found in prominent private, corporate, and museum collections including the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art among many others. This new exhibition will feature selections from his far-reaching Elegies series. Traversing the “intricacies of memory,” this body of work of more than 200 compositions explores Elegies‘ pivotal contemporary themes including the intersection of identity, race, place, and social mobility.

The narratives within Logan’s Elegies describe inherited memories, the pursuit of freedom, and the complexities of times. Logan says, “Each painting serves as a contemplative space where the echoes of the past coalesce with the present, creating a nuanced exploration of memory’s emotional landscape.” The physical paintings are multi-layered with an intricate surface. Using symbols and mapping, he creates abstracted landscapes and a unique, personal visual language. Presented in collaboration with Clotilda: The Exhibition at the Africatown Heritage House, a site of the History Museum of Mobile, this exhibition will mark the public debut of Without Stopping, an epic commissioned painting that Logan has created for the MMofA permanent collection. This monumental composition documents his learning about the people of Africatown. The partnership will include shared programs and events that will connect our community and a new publication featuring essays by Dr. Tiffany Barber and Dr. Kern Jackson.

Logan received his M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his awards include fellowships from the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, the Carolina Postdoctoral Scholars Fellowship, and the Phillip Morris Companies.