Atticus Gordon is an Ottawa-based painter and installation artist whose practice engages contemporary meaning-making and image-making. Atticus holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and a BFA from the University of Ottawa (2019), graduating with highest honours. His works have been exhibited in galleries and institutional settings throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The New American Painting Magazine and Artnet News have both covered his work. Atticus has won various awards and grants throughout his career including: The SAW Prize for New Work (2020), the Ottawa Art Gallery Award of Excellence (2019); and funding from the University of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa. His work is located in the public collection of the City of Ottawa and the Colart collection in Montreal.Gordon is also a curator, writer of art criticism, and co-founder of Nosy Mag, a non-profit publication examining Ottawa’s art and culture.

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

In Search of Lost Time borrows its title from Proust’s famous early 20th-century novel. In his modernist epic, recollections of youth and adolescence are combined with experimental form. These spirits animate this new sensitive body of work by Atticus Gordon. Made throughout the artist’s 30th year, he remembers, imagines and invents narratives of youth and coming of age. The paintings and drawings in this collection are staunchly experimental. They toy with formal questions, painterly organization, and the multiplicity of meaning. Atticus’s practice is focused on the questions and problems of painting in the contemporary moment. He rejects the status quo, producing works which demand a close looking - being seen on their own terms.