the new painter: artist talk with chris dorland
thursday, april 18 2024
6.30 pm – 8:00 pm
free admission, complimentary drinks
161 glass st. dallas, tx
join us in discussing artist chris dorland’s work at the intersection of painting and digital media. the artist will talk about his creative practice. following his talk, dorland will participate in a q+a.
about chris dorland
chris dorland (b. montreal, ca) works at the intersection of painting and digital media. with an emphasis on examining the ways in which surveillance technologies perceive, record and reproduce reality, dorland uses a variety of screens, drones and other optical devices to explore the increasingly tenuous boundaries between physical and digital environments, actual and virtual realities. dorland has been developing and refining a unique compression of both analog and digital languages into a singular and dense aesthetic rife with both unexpected beauty and extreme chaos. neither fully abstract nor functionally representational, dorland’s work allows us to apprehend the force of intrusive technologies as they increasingly distort and glitch our understanding of reality. dorland’s paintings and videos are a haunting meditation on contemporary life that evokes a dystopian vision of the human-built world through the sublimated violence of abstraction, consumerism and technology. chris dorland lives and works in new york city.
about the new painter
the new painter (tnp) is a project supporting research in digitally-informed practices in painting. tnp promotes fluidity between digital and material practices through creative research, visiting scholars and workshops. with support from a ut dallas hearts grant, the new painter champions ongoing discourse in the field of new media painting. drawing on the history of painting as an ever-evolving discourse, along with the history of images themselves, tnp advances conceptual, technical and material fluency in new media painting
image credit: untitled (host background), 2024. acrylic polymer, pigment, gesso, uv coating with aluminum stretcher bars on linen 84 inches x 72 inches.