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Prints charming and powerful

Updated - 9/3/2010 - nzherald.co.nz.

Virtuosity is usually associated with an artist who is very good at matching paint to the appearance of things. Andrew McLeod, whose exhibition Auckland is at the Ivan Anthony Gallery, is a very talented painter. His show includes a number of small neat abstractions and larger paintings in the show incorporate a statuesque female figure representing Auckland, which gives the title to the show.

These are paintings done with authority. Against the big figure are juxtaposed industrial and architectural devices which, in a surreal way, also refer to Auckland. But it is not with painting where McLeod’s outstanding virtuosity lies. The triumphs are the digital prints - made up of borrowings from a huge variety of sources that reveal his eagle eye for detail - that can be collaged together to make a world special to the artist and brought together as a modern artist’s print in editions of three.

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