Christian Dorey
X-ian (1975-2025)
Originately from Vancouver, Christian Dorey moved to Montréal in 2001. He graduated the Fine Arts department of Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 1998. Inspired heavily by pop art and expressionism movements, Dorey nourished his works with fragments of pop culture, coming from music and cinema to political icons. We witnessed the sheer reality of a moment of desire, power, or danger... He used different techniques from silkscreening to collages, to enable him to express his ideas more elaborately where he is always in search of new materials and techniques. He collected local materials as he traveled to reflect his personal intuitional and political engagement to that place. The themes of revolution and position of power and dominance lie beneath his paintings that he also addressed as a critic to the American imperialism. He was in search of the spiritual identity, however in denial of religious meaning of his own name, by signing his paintings with a single X or X-ian to eliminate its religious aspect.
