News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 2/28/03   CANADIAN GRAPHIC DESIGNER TO EXHIBIT AT SOUTHEASTERN       HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Clark Hall Gallery will showcase the work of contemporary Canadian artist Adrian Göllner, March 6-April 17.        An opening reception for the exhibit, which Gollner's has titled "Prop," is scheduled for 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12 at the gallery. Clark Hall Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays.       Göllner uses a variety of mediums and techniques in a "chameleon-like" adaptation to the environments in which he exhibits. In Winnipeg in 2000, he produced mock advertisements for billboards. For an exhibition in a Cold War bunker in Ottawa, he designed faux anti-communist propaganda posters. When showing his work in a conventional gallery, he plays off the stylings of contemporary art.        "The intent is to satirize, but I hope I do so with a degree of subtlety," Göllner said. "By closely emulating commercial design standards my pieces defy easy interpretation as art. The confusion is, I believe, a production one."       Göllner's recent work has employed computer graphics to create work that combines his interests in abstraction, advertising and the Cold War. He freely combines Cold War imagery, historical references and suburban aesthetics to create artworks that satirize the North American consumer culture.       The Clark Hall Gallery exhibit will include examples of his "Cold War Cards," a set of 20 trading cards which he created digitally in 1988 and marketed over the Internet. It also will include works from "Correspondence Series," created in August 2000 for the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In these works, excerpts from letters between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy are rendered abstract by transcribing them into Morse Code.       Active in the Ottawa arts community, Göllner has served as president of Gallery 101 and Artengine, a contemporary Internet gallery. He also directed the Ottawa Super 8 Film Festival and teaches at the Ottawa School of Art. His works can be viewed on his website, www.echelon.ca/agollner.       For additional information about the exhibit, contact Clark Hall Gallery interim director Robert Labranche, 985-549-5080. Return to News Releases