Logan Hicks

08Dec09

I have recently discovered NY stencil artist Logan Hicks, whose works consistently portray urban landscapes, conveying their muted tones, pollution-filled environment, and decrepit appearances, but also their magnificent architecture and transportation, expansive population, and collective human sentiments. To Hicks, a city is “alive.” It is “a breathing creature where the ebb and flow of people washing over its sidewalks act as cells circulating through its veins,” and the end result (though dull in color and decayed in appearance) is nothing less than inspiring. Somehow, the oneness of the human species in sensed, our surroundings a simple background to that which is moving, breathing, living, and thriving. As Hicks says best, “the dirty and gritty nature of the spraypaint thoroughly depict the decay of the city while the muted shine of metallic paint mirror the faint glimmer of hope and life within it.”