No matter how visionary the subject matter, it is a newly evolved graphic and color sensibility that drives this body of work, via hyper-saturated hues and relentless, ever-variegated blacks. Continuously influenced by historical Canadian landscape painters The Group of Seven, Dorland's outdoor scenes venture into darker, more psychological realms, with interiors and single portraits that bring to mind the scumbled figures of Francis Bacon and Eugène Leroy. A prolific and energetic worker, Dorland typically keeps numerous paintings measuring 6 by 8 feet cooking at once in his studio, producing clusters of enigmatic narratives and loose-lying resemblances. As a result, these seemingly disparate bodies of work form subtle, unlikely connections through their shared material concerns, tangential colors, and ghostly parallels.