About the Exhibition:
The Road is about exploring memory through iconography. The work I am presenting are collection of people I have met, stories I have been told, and a few stories of my own. None of the people you see here are of real people and any resemblance is pure coincidence. The theme of the show comes from a spiritual concept that our lives are journeys, and we all walk that road alone. Sometimes we are traveling with family, friends, lovers. Sometimes we think we can see our path planned out miles ahead only to have to change course. Sometimes people we have been caravanning with have to go their separate ways, while others unexpectedly join us. The people we meet can be wonderful or terrible, and where our road ends is hard to tell. These works I present to you is a metaphorical sample of what I’ve seen on my journey, and what it all might mean I leave up to the interpretation of the viewer.
About Sara E. Adrian:
Artist Sara E. Adrian is best known for her surreal abstract portraits and figures. She draws inspiration from Byzantine iconography, art nouveau, medieval manuscript illustration, and romanticism art movement. She creates bold images combining both iconography and portraiture using multiple mediums such as paint in either oil or acrylic, drawing with silverpoint, graphite, or pastel, and digital. Adrian’s work explores and challenges objectification of the feminine by flipping it into contemporary ideographic art. The work blends mythology and spiritual themes by using color, gesture, and symbolism. While working as an illustrator previously, today she is dedicated to spinning her own version of playful gothic imagery.
For more information, visit saraadrian.com or follow him on Instagram @s.e.adrian
