Christian Mcleod

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.

Craig Scott, Canadian Member of Parliament.

Christian McLeod updates the codes of contemporary abstraction in referencing the visual realities of a mediatized society. Rather than following the codes and canons of abstraction, McLeod brings a new energy to abstraction, drawing on and mixing a range of sources like the internet, raw environmental and experiential phenomena, digital screen imaging and video for his art.

John K. Grande


Painting is my way of remembering and interpreting beauty and destruction. I begin by viewing reality as composed of layers of colour and shape, observing the way light reflects off an object, and the tension objects generate when placed next to or on top of each other. Landscapes from a great distance become a single object. I try to capture the shift between perceiving the landscape as an organic whole, and seeing the particles that comprise it - buildings, rivers, vehicles, birds, harbours, roadways, minerals, machinery, aircraft, farms, data cables, people in movement.

Heaps of paint are placed, plotted and pushed. For som...

Education

1990-92 Toronto School of Art, Fine Art Studies. Graduate Diploma Program

School of Life.

In Philadelphia at Carol Rubenstein Fine Art.
In Toronto at Gallery 133 and Canvas Gallery.