NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents New Material, Kim Dorland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada. In his most ambitious work to date, Dorland continues his emphatic exploration of materiality through thick layering of paint, wood, feathers, fur and glitter. The Shack, among the largest works in the exhibition, addresses an occurrence in which, as a teen, the artist stumbled upon an open porn magazine in the woods, engendering both fascination and trepidation. The woods play a crucial role in Dorland’s paintings as the nexus of dyads, most notably reality/fantasy, ease/tension, seduction/repulsion, and pleasure/horror. The tension between pleasure and horror, as seen in Boogeyman, Sasquatch and Night