LAST CHANCE John Dilg: Found and Lost

The Iowa-based artist John Dilg represents scenic panoramas as earth-toned paintings that feel immediately familiar yet poignantly dreamlike. Having specialised in abstraction early in his career, Dilg’s evolution towards landscape painting retained an especial awareness of spatial relationships – “a consciousness of the physical and allusory [sic] weight of forms and structures,” as the gallery puts it. “His landscapes transcend scenery, becoming a lexicon of objects, each powerfully charged with memory and meaning. Dilg’s paintings are wonderfully contemplative spaces, where solitude and recognition coexist, evoking our shared longing for meaning within nature’s vastness …”