Atticus Gordon is a Canadian painter based in Chicago. Gordon’s practice engages with painting in the present, asking how the medium shifts and exists under the current conditions of capital, technology, and culture. In Gordon’s practice, painting is a site of discourse where conceptual thinking meets the bodily process of mark-making, spontaneity, and feeling. The works are constellations, combining imagery from diverse sources, including sketches, internet imagery, iPhone photographs, and art history. This pool of imagery is the point of departure for Gordon’s paintings, allowing him to fashion new logic where images bleed into one another, context is altered, and space is destabilized. Gordon’s paintings flirt with different forms of meaning, using a variety of painterly idioms and approaches, such as symbolism, narrative, and abstraction. The artist presents a wide frame of ideas that resist easy categorization, seeking in their complexity an attempt, inevitably fallible, to reach toward the conditions of human experience.