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. The daft young world of Berlin-based Stefanie Gu