C24 Gallery is pleased to present Lorem Ipsum, an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Dil Hildebrand. This will be Dil Hildebrand’s first solo exhibition in New York. Lorem Ipsum will showcase paintings and collage that highlight the artist’s distinctive working process in which he examines space and surface. The exhibition will be on view May 2 - June 30, 2017. Dil Hildebrand’s new body of work focuses on spatial concepts of design, the construction of image, and the mechanics of representation in art. His work is informed and influenced by a diversity of references and methods, including modernist strategies of fragmentation and re-composition, pictorial tropes of Western art and theatre, and post – modernist architecture. Layered panels follow a consistent color palette throughout the work, playing with distortion, and depth of field. In Lorem Ipsum, Hildebrand’s paintings deliberately move away from the austerity of the Cartesian aesthetic to create broader, stylistic movement in space, transcending two-dimensionality and blurring the lines between spatial representation and abstraction. Drawing from experience in scenic painting for theatre, Hildebrand employs the techniques of illusion used in set design. In Lorem Ipsum, his highly stylized brush strokes mixed with collage and layering of acrylic panels, produce the experience of post-modern architectural form. Through the use of materials such as nylon flocking, which is a material commonly found in wallpaper, sand, resin and acrylic paint, the highly physical surfaces create a sense of deep pictorial space. The resulting images frame the body of the viewer in life-sized patterns that imitate the grandeur of structural design. Frameworks and passageways are important motifs to Hildebrand’s work. Windows are leitmotifs of architectural patterning, ordering the way we think and move through the world; they represent the intersections of movement between states of being. Charged with neurosis and rich with history, the architectural image acts as both a map and a record of physical and psychological experience. In this way, the actual frame of Hildebrand’s paintings act as a window or portal. As if looking through a doorway, the eye rises and falls traveling through the bold shapes and colors of the panels. The result is a transcendent experience that both architectonic spaces and Hildebrand’s paintings share: a compulsory recognition of the present. Dil Hildebrand’s work has been shown internationally in such venues as The National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2010); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2012); Herron Galleries at University of Indiana, Indianapolis (2013); Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne (2013); Union Gallery, London UK (2012&13); University of Manitoba School of Art. Gallery, Winnipeg (2013); YYZ, Toronto (2011); Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (2013); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2014); AUT University Gallery, Auckland NZ (2007); and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2006). Hildebrand is an MFA graduate of Concordia University, Montreal and has been awarded a number of distinguished grants and awards including the International Residency at Acme Studios, London UK (2013); the Canada Council for the Arts (2010); the Banff Centre Thematic Residency (2009); Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2009) and was winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition (2006). Major public institutions throughout Canada, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d’art contemporain De Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Bank of the Canada Council, have collected Hildbrand’s work. He will present new work at Bonavista Biennale 2017, in Newfoundland in August, 2017.
The Crow Crieth, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fiber on acrylic panel in wood frame 50 x 38in (127 x 96.5cm)
Fons Adae, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 24 x 17in (61 x 43.2cm)
The Hare squeaketh, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 50 x 38in (127 x 96.5cm)
The Duck quaketh, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 50 x 38in (127 x 96.5cm)
The Serpent hisseth, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 50 x 38in (127 x 96.5cm)
The Wolf howleth, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 71 x 50in (180 x 127cm)
Leones, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 24 x 17in (61 x 43.2cm)
Aegyptus, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 24 x 17in (61 x 43.2cm)
The Wind bloweth, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 71 x 50in (180.3 x 127cm)
The mouth breatheth out, 2017 Acrylic, resin and nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 50 x 38in (127 x 96.5cm)
The Breeze saith, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fiber, and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 71 x 50in (180.3 x 127cm)
untitled collage 02, 2017 Acrylic, ink, wood, plastic and fabric on paper 30 x 20in (76.2 x 50.8cm)
untitled collage 01, 2017 Acrylic, ink, wood, plastic and fabric on paper 30 x 20in (76.2 x 50.8cm)
untitled collage 03, 2017 Acrylic, ink, wood, plastic and fabric on paper 30 x 20in (76.2 x 50.8cm)
Acacia, 2017 Acrylic, nylon fibre and sand on acrylic panel in wood frame 24 x 17in (61 x 43.2cm)
DIL HILDEBRAND Lives and works in Montreal, Canada EDUCATION 2013 Resident, Acme Studios, London UK 2009 Resident, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff 2008 Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal 1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal 1995 Painting, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Lorem Ipsum, C24 Gallery, New York, NY Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal 2016 It is a Complicated Business, Pierre-Francois Oellette art contemporain, Toronto Let No One Enter Who Does Not Know Geometry, Centre d’Exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, QC Whilst Hanging from a Round Planet, McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC 2015 A few good words that still work, and the tide, Pierre-Francois Oellette art contemporain, Montreal, QC 2013 And so on and so forth..., Centre Space, Toronto 2012 Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal 2011 Back to the Drawing Board, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto VOLTA NY, with Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, New York 2010 Peepshow, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal 2008 Long Drop: A Hanging, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal, QC 2007 Dil Hildebrand, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal, QC GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Art New York, C24 Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Contemporary Istanbul, C24 Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Art New York, C24 Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Regard sur l’art contemporain, La mainson de la culture Villeray, Montreal, QC Paysages revisites, La mainson de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal, QC 2014 Grace of a Gesture: 50 Years of Reciprocity, Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal Young Canadian Painters, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge ON Land Reform(ed), Ajagemo Gallery, Ottawa ON Luminescences MTL-TO, PFOAC/ Centre Space, Montreal/Toronto 2013 Shape Shifters, Herron Galleries, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Corner-Thru, Choi&Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA The Painting Project, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal
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Builders: Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Re-configuring Abstraction, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Corner-Thru, Union Gallery, London UK Between the Cracks: Picturing the Fourth Dimension, OBORO, Montreal Carré blanc sur fond dur, Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi NO HORIZONS, The L.A. Pedestrians at Art Platform, Los Angeles Memory For the Future, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal The Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China. Beijing, China La peinture dans la peau, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal Works from the Collection, Battat Contemporary, Montreal L’ Anti-Sublime, Maison de la Culture du Plateau Montréal, Montreal Pulse Miami, with Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Miami Homologous Fields: Dil Hildebrand & Tyler Los-Jones, Truck Gallery, Calgary Ideas of Landscape / Landscape of Ideas 2, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto Entrevoir, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal. Curated by Louise Déry It Came in a Dream; a collaboration with Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Drake Hotel, Toronto Next: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, with Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Chicago - duo with Kent Monkman Snow Falls in the Mountains Without Wind, St. Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Unique Viewpoints: Recent Work by Québec Artists, National Arts Centre, Ottawa Ignition, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Summertime in Paris, Parisian Laundry, Montreal Verdure, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal
AWARDS 2014 Canada Council of the Arts, Project Grant 2013 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, London Residency 2010 Canada Council of the Arts, Project Grant 2009 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Development Grant PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The National Gallery of Canada Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 755Canada Council Art Bank Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Government of Canada
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