Logan Hicks

Place: Baltimore

Born: 1971

Biography:

Logan Hicks is an American contemporary artist born in 1971 and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Hicks was born in Baltimore and grew up south of the city. In 1993, he left Maryland Institute College of Art a couple of classes short of a degree to start a screen printing business in Baltimore where he printed t-shirts, stickers, and posters. In 1999, he moved to San Diego after befriending Shepard Fairey. Leaving his screen printing press behind in Baltimore, he began to use stencils for his own art. In 2001, he moved to Los Angeles. In 2007, he moved back to the East Coast, relocating to Brooklyn, New York where he continues to exhibit his work. Hicks was one of two artists selected by Banksy to represent the United States in the Cans Festival in London in 2008. In 2010, he was selected to paint at Wynwood Walls In Miami by real estate visionary Tony Goldman. In 2016, he painted a mural at the home of the Miami Dolphins - Hard Rock Stadium. In 2023, he painted a mural in Paris, in the corridor linking Auber station and Opéra station. Hicks's work has largely focused on the perception of the environment, at times humanizing its architectural angles and structures, and at others using its vastness to explore self-identity. With an old masters approach to lighting, Hicks sculpts ordinary architectural scenes into deeply metaphorical and contemplative imagery through stenciled aerosol. Over the years, Hicks has developed his impeccable photorealistic style using stencils, sometimes using up to 15 layers of stencil to achieve this precision. Working from his own photographs, subjects are translated to multiple layers of stencils, brought to bold dimensionality by blending colors through aerosol.