Kim Dorland

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.

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Kim Dorland

The Night

2023

Oil on linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Nests

2023

Oil on linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

White Fence

2023

Oil on linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Disturbance

2023

Oil on linen

  • 40" x 30"
Kim Dorland

View

2023

Oil on linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Not Anything

2023

Oil on linen

  • 48" x 36"
Kim Dorland

Fence (Panic)

2021

Oil on Aluminum

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

How can we manage not to touch anything?

2019

Oil on Canvas

  • 72" x 60"

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