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ArchiveBorn 1974 in Alberta, Canada
Dorland’s heavily impastoed works greet the viewer like vibrant, playful and often eerie snapshots of suburban scenarios, quiet woodland scenes and gory abstract portraits. An exaggerated palette is partnered with coarse, fervent brushwork and unorthodox paint applications - acrylic, oil and spraypaint all have a home within his compositions.
Thick, generously applied pigment sits abundantly upon wood surfaces, muscular markmaking describes foliage and terrain while fluorescent underpainting isolates reduced human forms and breaks up the earthy homogony. Dorland confidently employs these unexpected devices to generate arrangements that combine beauty with vulgarity, to depict that which is familiar. Kim Dorland received his BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and his MFA at York University in Toronto.
 Kim Dorland, "Clearing #3", Oil and acrylic on wood panel, 72 x 60in, 2009. |
