NEW
YORK,
NY.- Mike Weiss
Gallery presents the group
exhibition Reflexive Self, which runs through August 14th. The
“reflexive self” is a view of self
in the context of the people and situations around us. The show is
comprised of
five international artists of varying technique whose depiction of other
and
object explores the concept of self-reference and introspection in
painting. Canadian artist Kim
Dorland’s thickly sculpted trees bear the marks of his own suburban
adolescence
and his teenage accomplices in debauchery. The cacophony of the scrawled

graffiti causes the viewer to yearn for another look at childhood as
Dorland’s
playful impasto chunks seem to be the remnants of what’s left behind of
youth.
For Dorland, the development of self is a process involving the symbols,
words,
and gestures acquired from the society in which a person lives.