Altering the world we know: The sharp, sensitive works of Jonathan Dalton

The title of one of the works in Jonathan Dalton’s most recent body of work, The Impossibility of Swans, could just as easily be the Impossibility of Jonathan Dalton. This is an artist, who paints with such realist finesse, with distortions and refractions all accounted for, that no equivocation is present. Yet his works are rife with misdirection and metaphor.Expanding a central theme of reassessing value, Dalton’s premise: “The idea of things that we had that were once import