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  • Reactor (2011-12)

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    There is a tension in the work. I like to make it an effort to figure out the story. But it takes a lot of patience, a long time to capture that sense of a frozen moment, so I expect my audience to take the time too, to look closely.
    (Interviewed in dotdotdot magazine)

  • The New Nature (2011)

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    Solo exhibition at LaParete Gallery, October 22nd - November 15, 2011.

  • Central Station (2009)

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    His surfaces are pockmarked with railroad tracks and the residue of heavy vehicles, fumes rise up - these are the traces of traffic and modern life...
    (Martin Mills)

  • Particles (2003)

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    In any given work, he may be in conversation with Canadian artistic ancestors like a Riopelle, a Borduas, a Thompson, a Morriseau, or a Jackson. But his influences cannot but be - and are - global...
    (Craig Scott)

  • Going Home (2005)

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    McLeod combines the formal structure of a certain type of abstraction with the lyricism of Expressionism, but never veers completely into abstract expressionism...
    (Martin Mills)

  • Abandoned Fields (2011)

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    Some of these effects are "imprinted" as if on a map, while still others have been "placed" onto the surface, as a build up of painterly gestures.
    (John K. Grande)

  • Further Unmanned Strategies (2007)

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    Biblical plagues of insects morph into drones, buzzing through the city, recording everything in their wake...
    (Martin Mills)

  • Unmanned (2006)

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    A moment's inspection of these dark, winged forms soon reveals, however, that they are really far more mechanical than they are creaturely...
    (Gary Michael Dault)

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