love affair: the book of joan

These paintings, poems and photographs by Jim Logan (a First Nations artist now living in Nova Scotia) deal with what he describes as a “Native love affair”. Curator Heather Smith (who organized this exhibition for the Moose Jaw Art Museum) comments “The work transcends a simple critique of the genre of Native ‘romance’ in pulp fiction…this is a human story, made rich with indecision and complicated by circumstance.” Logan’s paintings of Joan have a directness that resembles the simplified forms of posters. In combination with his open-hearted poetry and his candid black-and-white photographs, they acquire a special poignancy.