"The painting is derived from a 2023 woodcut print I made, called View of the Foothills. The background in the print has been replaced in this painting by an image taken of a windbreak near my childhood home in Manitoba (a windbreak is a narrow barrier of trees and bushes planted between agricultural fields designed to protect crops from strong winds and reduce soil erosion). As in many of my paintings, this painting looks at the idea of the threshold - the space between two distinct places. It presents the threshold as the location of a binary relationship - interior vs exterior, foreground vs background, real vs imaginary, and drawing vs painting." – DH


Dil Hildebrand lives and works in Montreal. He holds a MFA degree from Concordia University and has participated in numerous exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and internationally, including venues such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; and Fondation Giverny pour l'art contemporain, among others. He has received several distinguished grants and awards, such as the International Residency at Acme Studios in London, UK (2013); the Canada Council for the Arts grants (2010, 2014, 2019); the Banff Centre Thematic Residency (2009); Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec grants (2009, 2024); and was the winner of the RBC National Painting Competition in 2006. His work is in the collections of major public institutions across Canada, including the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada, Fondation Giverny pour l'art contemporain, and the Art Bank of the Canada Council, as well as numerous private and corporate collections throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe.