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To my contemporaries:

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I made this for me,
I made this for us.

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Carey Logan Retrospective Coming to Young Museum

Carey Logan Retrospective
Coming to Young Museum

The Young Museum announced today that Carey Logan, the artist known for her hyperrealist sculptures who committed suicide by drowning in 2008, will be the subject of a sweeping retrospective at the museum this October.

Dramatic rumors of an as-yet-unseen final work have churned through Chelsea for months, and the museum confirmed today that the exhibition, BODY OF WORK, will include all of Logan’s sculptural and performance works, including the rumored final work. A source from within the institution told The Times that the final work has not been viewed by the curators, and that it will not even be transported to the museum until the exhibition’s opening night.

Ms. Logan’s vivid, detailed representations of human bodies could be—and often were—easily mistaken for the real thing. Made from combinations of ceramics, resin, paper, ink and oil paint, the sculptures were both a visual pun on the currency of a market where the greatest quantities of money so often change hands over the estates of dead artists, and a running commentary on the subjugation and degradation of women.

Her bodies were exhibited all over the world and acquired by dozens of private collectors. But in 2006, Ms. Logan ceased her sculptural work entirely and devoted herself to an earnest revival of 1970s performance art. In separate performances at the Eliot&Sprain gallery over the two years preceding her death, Ms. Logan choked, passed out, slept and stayed awake for days, all on public view, to mixed reviews.

It is not clear whether her final artwork was also made at Eliot&Sprain, or even what medium it is in.

A source familiar with the work who wishes to remain anonymous was unwilling to provide further details. “It cannot be described,” they wrote to The Times in an email. “It is fascinating, highly personal, explicit and extremely upsetting, and must be seen to be believed and understood in its full context.”

BODY OF WORK will open October 21, 2012, and run through June of the following year.

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1996

Chapter One

Chapter One