"N/A" - Photography by Sally Antoinette Logue

Opening reception for “N/A,” Sally Antoinette Logue’s photography of hand-built miniature scenes. Exhibit runs from May 20–June 24.

Artist’s Statement

My body of work takes an interdisciplinary approach to my fascination with storytelling through imagined realities. One way I accomplish this is by creating and photographing miniature scenes. To make these images, I physically construct different environments, and after capturing the scenes through the photographic medium, I promptly dismantle them. I am interested in how the contrived ephemeral can now only exist through photographic documentation. My photographic series of miniatures considers both domestic and global themes. While alluding to natural history dioramas, I attempt to examine the Anthropocene epoch in an intimate format to which we may be less desensitized. Focusing on in-camera framing, lighting, and set-design, I transform a small scene from the miniatures themselves to the imagined reality represented in the work.

I have always been drawn to storytelling through art, which resulted in my passion for illustration and other figurative and narrative-based art forms. In my illustrations, I seek out stylization to allow the delicacy and texture of the medium I most often use — watercolor — to stand out. I am drawn to form, and through intuitive mark-making and line work, I tend to exaggerate proportions and abstract the familiar. Many of my illustrations attempt to visually interpret cross-cultural differences, such as the incommunicability of concepts that have no equivalence in certain languages, because the image is a universal language that can be “read” by anyone. My paintings examine the landscapes and environments in which I have spent most of my time, as well as portraits of those close to me. The places are tied to both memory and the present as each location marks growth and change in life, while the portraits ground the events in something much more personal. While the images represent real moments in life, through exaggerated color and form, I again allude to an imagined space that is removed from the one in which we currently live, inviting further room for interpretation.

Artist’s Bio

Sally Antoinette Logue is an interdisciplinary artist based in SLC. She is receiving her Honors BFA in Illustration and French with a secondary specialization in Photography at the University of Utah. Her photographic, illustrative, and painted work combines traditional mediums and techniques with digital imaging, editing, and rendering to visually storytell. In addition to commercial work, she has exhibited at the University of Utah Gittens Gallery and is excited and grateful to show her work at the SLC Public Library.