🔥💀Have you stopped by to see Kim Dorland’s latest show at Patel Brown Toronto yet? It’s not something you'll want to miss! 💀🔥 Come down to 21 Wade Ave, #2 between 10 am and 6 pm, Tuesday to Saturday to take in Kim’s monumental “Where are all the protest songs?” exhibition title piece in person. The show featuring this work, as well as many others, is on until December 10, 2022. “On the central wall hangs the massive centerpiece of this exhibition, Where are all the protest songs? The painting answers this question. They are all here, all of those songs - in this work. It’s the longest song on the album, it’s Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”, Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, except it’s way darker. Every gesture, image, vignette, crevice, explosion on the four canvases answers this question. What is a landscape artist left to paint when we’ve burned, bulldozed, plowed, flooded or paved over all the landscapes? This painting might be the answer to that question too. One could call this work apocalyptic, it's undeniably macabre in places and some of the imagery terrifying, but that would overlook another energy that runs through the work. The energy of an artist grappling with what the future holds, for him, his family, his world.” -Excerpt from the exhibition text by Stephen Ranger (@stephenranger ) Featured above: Kim Dorland “Where are all the protest songs?”, 2022 oil on panel 84 x 240 in. 213.36 x 609.60 cm. #kimdorland #wherearealltheprotestsongs #contemporaryart #torontogallery #patelbrowntoronto #torontoart