Adrian Göllner – Artist’s Statement
My artworks address particular contexts. Given a billboard on which to work, I designed mock advertisements; allowed to work in a military bunker, I made some propaganda. When faced with a conventional gallery space, I am inclined to play off the stylings of contemporary art. Within the above however, there are constants. I have an abiding interest in abstraction and the history of the last century. Of specific interest are those points where design and art cross, ie: the Bauhaus, the Soviet Avant-garde, and American industrial design of the 1930s. Stylistic references to these movements are referred to, coyly, to enhance my investigations into the Cold War, architecture and our consumer society. My intent is to satirize, but I hope I do so with a degree of subtlety. By closely emulating graphic styles and employing commercial production techniques, I am able to hide my own hand and create images that defy easy interpretation as art. The results are mildly subversive.
Pop and Propaganda	Abstraction	Commissions and Architecture	Odd Socks
	Shape of Luck, 2007-10	Rain Barrels Vancouver 2010 Olympics,	Clock Drawings 2009-continuing
	The Region of Durham’s Motto, Graphed, 2009	Safe As Houses, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2009
		Stand, 2009	Hot Wheels: Tornado Alley, 2009
		Harbinger, 2007
	Political Landscape, 2007	View Screens, 2006	Printable Ikea Series, 2006
	The Phrase Series, 2006	Shelf: 759-760, 2006	Cloud Bank, 2006
	Painters 11, 2005	North, 2005
	No, No Joe, 2004	U-Build, 2004
You Are Here, 2002		Modern U, 2003	Why Things Are Seen, 2003
Star Power Series, 2002	Correspondence Series, 2002	Warm By Night, 2002-
Loose Lips Series, 2000		People’s Plan, 2001
Civil Defence Series, 2000	Goethe Graphed 2001	Org Chart, 2001	Flag of Ireland as Rearranged by the Mail, 2001
True Advertising, 2000			Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary, as Rendered in $254.95 worth of Canadian Tire Money, 2000
Cold War Cards, 1998		Greylands, 1999	Clock Box, 1999
Bed Sheet Spitfire Series, 1997	Roundel Paintings 1997 and 2002		Armstrong Linoleum Tile Series, 1997
Bedroom Fighter Series, 1997	19 Discontinued Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colour Series, 1996-7		Birmingham Suite, 1995
	UN Decorations Series, 1994	UN Pool, 1994
		A Brief History of Ottawa, 1994
	Rec Room Series, 1993
	Landscape Constructions, 1991

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