Christian McLeod
89 ossington ave
m6j2z2 Toronto
Kanada (Canada)
http://www.christianmcleod.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Abstrakt
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Education
1990-92 Toronto School of Art, Fine Art Studies. Graduate Diploma Program
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto, Canada
2007 Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto, Canada
2006 Engine Gallery 1112 Queen St. West, Toronto, Canada
2004 Coop Gallery, 112 Scollard Ave. Toronto On. Canada
Group Exhibitions
2009 Creative Art Gems – Creative Works Studio . Judy Scolnik – Heffel Auction Canada Toronto
2008 Nuit Blanche Toronto - Studio Exhibition, # 89 Ossington Ave. Toronto
2008 AWOL Gallery – Square Foot Exhibition, 100A Ossington Ave Toronto.
2008 The Forest for the Trees - St. FX University Art Gallery University Art Gallery
1st Floor Bloomfield Centre St. Francis Xavier University PO Box 5000 Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
2008 Creative Art Gems - Creative Works Studio . Judy Scolnik – Heffel Auction Canada
2007 Galleria di Arte Contemporanea Il Gabbiano La Spezia COMUNICATO STAMPA mostra
The Forest For The Trees, Italy.
2007 Art with Heart, Ritchie's Auction House, Casey House Benefit Auction, Toronto.
2007 Nuit Blanche Toronto - Studio Exhibition, # 89 Ossington Ave. Toronto.
2007 Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada.
2006 Lonsdale Gallery, Forest for the Trees - Curated by Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Francesca Vivenza, Anne Callaghan. Toronto, Canada
2006 T.A.A.F.I. with Craig Scott Gallery, Gladstone Hotel and Drake Hotel, Queen St. Toronto, Canada
2006 T.I.A.F -Toronto International Art Fair, Booth # 325, Engine Gallery.
2006 Art with Heart, Ritchie's Auction House, Casey House Benefit Auction, Toronto.
2006 Craig Scott Gallery - 95 Berkeley Street, Toronto M5A 2W8
2006 Engine Gallery - 1112 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H9
2005 Bau-Xi Gallery, Art with Heart, Casey House Benefit Auction, Toronto.
2005 Engine Gallery - 1112 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H9
2004 Queen West Art Crawl, Artscape, #363 Sorauren Ave #403, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2004 Salon du Printemps, AGDC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2004 Gladstone Hotel, Speak Easy Exhibition, Queen West, Toronto Ont. Canada
2002 Propeller Art Centre, WegWay Exhibition, Queen W. Toronto Canada.
2001 Art Focus Magazine Annual Exhibition, Juried Show; Metro Hall, Toronto
1998/99 Louise Smith Gallery, 17 Prince Arthur Ave. Toronto, Canada.
Selected Bibliography
‘Further Unmanned Strategies’ Feature article Magazin Art, Montreal, Quebec- Summer Issue 2008
'Particles' grouping of 9 4"/5" oil on canvas. The Naked Ape, 1st Issue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
'Bot Flag', Weg-Way Primary Culture 4, Fall 2002 Editor and Publisher: Steve Armstrong.
'Bot Family', Annual Exhibition, Art Focus Magazine, Spring 2002, Pat Fleisher, publisher.
'Skating on Inkwells' Cover Painting; Queen Street Quarterly Summer 1998 Vol.2, No.2
Professional Affiliations
Individual Member. Visual Arts Ontario 1153-A Queen St. W. Toronto On.
Individual Member. C.A.R.F.A.C. 401 Suite 440, Richmond St. W. Toronto, On.
Individual Member. Toronto Arts Coalition, 141 Bathurst St. Toronto ON M5V 2R2
Awards
"Annual Art Focus Exhibition," Art Focus Magazine, Spring 2002.: Oil Painting
Reviews
John K. Grande The Drones, the Paint & the Cinetic Flip; - January 2009.
Gary Michael Dault - Ascending Language – 2007.
Christian McLeod is a painter who is completely secure in his own skin, not duped by art-world fetishizing of the new and confusing of the new with the important. He is aware of his forebearers, including a particular call on his soul of both the Canadian landscape tradition, the Canadian (perhaps primarily Québécois) abstract tradition, and also Aboriginal traditions. In any given work, he may be in conversation with Canadian artistic ancestors like a Riopelle (e.g. Transformer"), a Borduas (so brilliantly echoed while arguably being surpassed in McLeod's "Particles" series paintings), a Thompson, a Morriseau, or a Jackson. But his influences cannot but be - and are - global: as noted by Dault, one can in some pieces discern echoes of New York or Paris 'School' adherents like Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, da Silva or de Stael; or, for that matter, discern the spirit of van Gogh (e.g. Burning Studio) or of ancient cave paintings of (as commented on by Martin Mills in relation to the work Breaking Apart **).
McLeod has a particular talent for colour manipulation. There is much that one could say, but I shall mention only a few dimensions. For one thing, his dense, often churning, surfaces are never muddy or aimlessly busy. There is also what I might call, in some instances, the 'daub juste' and, in other instances, the 'flow juste.' By these I mean an uncanny ability to place highlights or zones or textured streaks of colour in a way that both teases the eye, moving it around the canvas, and (often) signals a more representational element in his work that encourages the viewer to engage with the work's title and implicit (if still at times obscure) theme.
Craig Scott, Craig Scott Gallery
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Surfacing Under A Bourgeois Spider
Malerei
Ölmalerei
90 x 120 x 7 cm
2007
Preis: 2.300 Euro
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Destroyer
Malerei
Ölmalerei
96 x 96 x 7 cm
2008
Preis: 2.600 Euro
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Woodstove
Malerei
Ölmalerei
72 x 72 x 7 cm
2004
Preis: 900 Euro
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s'estanyol - Ibiza
Malerei
Ölmalerei
120 x 90 x 6 cm
2006
unverkäuflich
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The Planes are in the Air
Malerei
Ölmalerei
50 x 46 x 4 cm
2006
Preis: 570 Euro
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In the Park After Dark
Malerei
Ölmalerei
90 x 90 x 4 cm
2009
Preis: 950 Euro
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Belize Foliage
Malerei
Ölmalerei
25 x 25 x 4 cm
2008
Preis: 600 Euro
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