Studio Artists

Michael Bernard Loggins was born in 1961 in San Francisco, California. He has been writing, drawing and painting at Creativity Explored since 1984. His words and art have been exhibited at galleries and spaces in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and France.

Loggins is primarily a writer and list-maker who often illustrates his texts. In 1995 Loggins began listing his fears and 138 were published in zine format. “Fears of Your Life”. Over the next seven years, Loggins’ list of fears grew into another zine which was published in hardback form in 2004 by Manic D Press. “Fears of Your Life” was also read on NPR’s “This American Life” in 2004.

Loggins’ writing usually takes the form of notes to friends, issues on his mind (safety, allergies, emotions etc.), or memories. His drawings generally deal with lighter subject matter such as animals, idyllic worlds, and imaginary people. In December 2007, Manic D Press published his second book,”Imaginationally”, a dictionary of created words and illustrations such as “terrifical” and “foolishment”.

Loggins has been the subject of several documentary films: “Life Itself” by San Francisco filmmakers Francis Kohler and Todd Herman in 2001, and “Life is Real” by Scott Ray Becker in 2007.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2009

  • A Night at Findlay’s Dance Hall, Creativity Explored

• 2008

  • Quarter Century, Creativity Explored
  • Finders Keepers, Creativity Explored

• 2006

  • Terror?, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco

• 2005

  • In Passing, A Show About Death, SF Arts Commission Gallery

• 2004

  • Psst, Hey! Be Mine?, Chatterbox Gallery, San Francisco

• 2003

  • Ten by Twenty, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

• 2002

  • Frisco, Spanganga, San Francisco

• 2000

  • Creativity Explored 2000, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco

• 1999

  • Survivalist, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
  • Art in Transit, The Market Street Kiosks, San Francisco
  • Day of the Dead Altars, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco
  • Love to Me, SOMARTS, San Francisco
  • Facing Fear, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco

• 1998

  • Whipper Snapper Nerd, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York
  • Whipper Snapper Nerd, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Whipper Snapper Nerd, Silent Art Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
  • What’s Love Mean to You?, Inside Out Gallery, San Francisco
  • Whipper Snapper Nerd, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco