Peinture vinylique Flashe sur papier, 2021
Figures At Table is as much about geometry as it is about interpersonal relations. It could be a bargaining table, or a party table, or a hovering Ouija board. It is both utterly flat and stubbornly three dimensional. The table wants to flip back and forth between planar and spatial, and it seems as if it is all the characters can do just to keep that purple parallelogram horizontal.
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.