The exhibition HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT at the Ottawa School of Art Orleans Gallery ( Shenkman Arts Center) January 10 to February 12, 2022

This exhibition invites the questioning of the imaginative and uncommonly revealing symbols and the responsibility in the way meanings have been given to them. Skeletons, trains, shopping carts, Greek and Roman statues, animals, and more, take a new and different relation to their shared core meanings in these works.

"For this exhibition, I am presenting egg-tempera paintings and relief prints that recall historical figures of cultural, political, and religious influence through critical narratives of the medieval devil in relation to symbols of consumerist and Western culture. However overt the symbols may be, the aesthetic of my compositions straddle between the boundaries of abstraction and figuration to render the meaning of the subject matter ambiguous. All this is accompanied by an ongoing theoretical and art historical research on the medieval icon with which I examine the relationship between form as meaning and ideology and colour as emotion in a work of art. This is necessary to allow for a deeper understanding of the past and present role of visual art in questioning or reinforcing cultural authority and its history." - Adrian Gor

For more details of the works displayed see: www.adriangor.com; artottawa.ca/hidden-in-plain-sight; and @osao.gallery on Instagram