About

Kim Dorland’s practice reflects a fascination with the enigmatic Canadian landscape as it comes into contact with contemporary urban experience. The psychological atmosphere represented by Dorland is confrontational and hallucinatory, disrupting conventional ideas that the natural world is a place of solace and contemplation. Using a dense matrix of intense colours, delirious textures, and passionate painterly touch, Dorland brings a paradoxical sense of displacement in which the artist’s relationship with nature is simultaneously one of awe and fear. In parallel with this, fragments of contemporary urban life materialize themselves in the form of ghostly figures and graffiti remnants. It is through these dueling representations of the landscape that Kim Dorland has created a body of work endowed with an emotional charge whose potential far exceeds the formal confines of the canvas.

Selected Works

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Kim Dorland

Fence (Panic)

2021

Oil on Aluminum

  • 48" x 36"
  • Photo: Byron Dauncey
Kim Dorland

I’ve Heard You’ve Lost Faith In Me

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 60" x 72"
Kim Dorland

Untitled

2015

Oil and acrylic on paper

  • 60" x 40"
Kim Dorland

Snow Man

2015

Oil on Linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Old Growth

2018

Oil on dibond

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Remember Me?

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 60" x 48"
Kim Dorland

Dad

2010

Watercolour on paper board

  • Frame size: 20" x 24"
Kim Dorland

Undead Painter (Study)

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 20" x 16"
Kim Dorland

Someday Everything Will Make Perfect Sense

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 72" x 96"
Kim Dorland

Landscape Painting

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 48" x 60"
Kim Dorland

In Bloom

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 72" x 60"
Kim Dorland

How can we manage not to touch anything?

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 72" x 60"

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