Peinture vinylique Flashe sur Tyvek, 2021
In Here Quick is an escape hatch. It is a way out straight through the blue page. The drawing appears to have a door that opens like the page of a book, and it closes behind you without so much as a crack and it hides you completely from absolutely everything.
Adrian Norvid’s work has been shown in commercial galleries and museums across Canada, Germany, and the United States. He has been working with paper almost exclusively for thirty years. He is known for wall-sized drawings, paper objects, sculptures, and installations. His work presents an alternate, oddly inflected, ahistorical world, often referencing popular culture, that is saturated with humour and irony.
His life-size paper organ is in the collection of the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal, and a full-size one-room paper house is in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Norvid’s paper corpse performance Adrian’s Awetopsy was performed at McBride Contemporain (Montréal), Griffin Art Projects (Vancouver), the Kelowna Art Gallery, and Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire). Norvid has produced two books, Nogoodniks and The Fake Lake Bottom Feeder, both published by Drawn & Quarterly.