A Portfolio of 15 Icons

From the Sign of the Theotokos Orthodox Church

by George Kordis

With God’s help and the unstinting assistance of the Community, what we have tried to do in the Sign of the Theotokos Orthodox Church in Montreal, Quebec, is to reconcile a typical Byzantine-style iconography with a different architectural form, in such a way as to express the transcending of opposites and the struggle between different forms. We wanted everything to be traditional in a unique way, to have a representational face that was unique and yet would express established Orthodox iconography, without being attatched to some national school of icon-painting from the past. We wanted everything to seem luminous, reconciled, united in love, as a small indication of the reality of paradise, the communion of the eschaton.\n-Dr. George Kordis\n\nDr. George Kordis is a very talented iconographer who has painted over 30 churches all over the world. He presently lives in Athens, Greece, although he travels and works around the globe. He has spent a significant amount of time at the University of Athens, where he successfully obatained his doctorate in Iconography and served as a professor for several years. He truly is a master of his craft and a breath of fresh air in the art of Iconography.

Edition #1 published in 2019 by Alexander Press.