Logan Larsen (b. 1998, Houston, TX) uses print, publication, sculpture installation, and moving images to research and evoke lost Queer communities, particularly ones influenced by film and fandom. He is currently pursuing an MFA at Carnegie Mellon University and splits his time between Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA.

“Swanson Sugar Drawing – 1 is one of a series of “Sugar Drawings” created as part of The Sugar Coffin, an exhibition revolving around hate-mail sent from avant-guard filmmaker Kenneth Anger to film star Gloria Swanson. The related objects and correspondence of this exchange are housed in Swanson’s archival collection at The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

“The print depicts an image of Swanson used in the set dressing of her film, Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which she plays a faded film star unable to confront her loss of fame and acclaim. The film blurred the lines between fact and fiction, as the narrative paralleled Swanson’s own experience in the film industry when she couldn’t ‘make it’ in talking pictures. In the 1980s Swanson became a notorious anti-sugar advocate, an advocacy that Anger poked fun at in his correspondence to her.”

— Logan Larsen