John Dilg’s paintings feel like landscapes rather than being such. Dilg paints metaphors and abstractions using what he calls a mental archive of essential visual forms, drawing on memory and tonalities of color and the sensations they can convey to create an enthralling, symphonic whole that emphasizes stillness and the continuum of time. The subjects of these works are not the objects that occupy the paintings but the representation of a moment in time in itself.
Copper Canyon
2024
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 46.5 x 4 cm / 14 x 18 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
© John Dilg
Thinking the Land
2024
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 46.5 x 4 cm / 14 x 18 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
© John Dilg
Destiny
2024
Colored pencil and graphite pencil on Arches hot press paper
Sheet 20.5 x 25.5 cm / 8 x 10 in
Frame 36 x 41 x 3 cm / 14 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 1 1/8 in
© John Dilg
Liminal
2021
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51 x 4 cm / 16 x 20 x 1 1/2 in
© John Dilg
Twilight Expedition
2021
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51 x 4 cm / 16 x 20 x 1 1/2 in
© John Dilg
Similitud
2021
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 35.5 x 4 cm / 18 x 14 x 1 1/2 in
© John Dilg
Historical Fiction
2019
Oil on canvas
28 x 35.5 cm / 11 x 14 in
© John Dilg
Lost Lake
2019
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 45.5 cm / 14 x 18 in
© John Dilg
Cedar Bleeding
2019
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 40.5 cm / 12 x 16 in
© John Dilg
Permission
2019
Oil on canvas
28 x 35.5 cm / 11 x 14 in
© John Dilg
Anglers
2018
Oil on canvas
28 x 35.5 x 4 cm / 11 x 14 x 1 1/2 in
© John Dilg
Birch
2018
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 45.5 cm / 14 x 18 in
© John Dilg
Immigrant
2017
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 45.5 cm / 14 x 18 in
© John Dilg
Approaching Future
2017
Oil on canvas
28 x 35.5 x 4 cm / 11 x 14 x 1 1/2 in
© John Dilg
Strangers
2017
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 45.5 cm / 14 x 18 in
© John Dilg
