Broker's Art Night

A collaboration between Hilary Farnum-Fasth, owner of Corcoran Realty, and artist David McLeod.

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collector preview: May 15th, 2025

opening night: May 16th, 2025

oil on glass, 19x14x8"

Portrait of a Spinning Man

This work explores the relationships among the self alongside the human/technology layers. Implied interpretations are levels of consciousness, the editing of self in the digital space, and the hierarchies of humans and technology. It seeks to ask questions of motive and control. The mount holds the framed panes off the wall, allowing them to spin about a vertical axis.

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oil on glass, 16x16x4"

Bauble

This intimate work looks into ideas of obsession, control, identity... The figure holds a small object, but both the figure and the object spin about their center. Their connection does not betray who is the controller, but puts them at clear odds with the viewer’s real space.

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oil on glass, 48x34"

Woman with a Black Triangle

This work explores the relationship between technology and humanity. The flesh is traditionally rendered, except for the areas in shadow and other voids, where the glass forms the surface of the flesh. These areas are not only affected by what’s underneath but, in certain areas, are that material. This tension spreads beyond the figure, where passages of paint struggle against the glass. The paint is a thin veil, appearing thinner with increased inspection. Moreover, viewers can see their reflection in the glass, synthesizing the audience to the dynamic.

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oil on glass, 48x15x8"

We Will See

This work, like many in the series from the UBIQUITY show, has an integral kinetic element. The work spins about a vertical axis, allowing access to both sides of the glass pane. The figure’s eyes are open on one side and closed on the other.

I’m messing around with cultural themes here. The glass and paint are so painfully “transparent” (obvious/unguarded) yet the work itself is a bit confusing and curious. Intention, resolution, motive, identity, and the subconscious are all influencers in the formulation of the content.

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oil on glass, 28x22"

Mediator

The figure is simple, static, and beautiful—and barely tense. She is seen from the back and the slightest edge of her eyelashes show that her eyes are open. When the painting is folded from right to left to reveal the other side, she appears the exact same, only mirrored. At play here are ideas of manipulation, beauty, perception, and control.

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"All these works suggest the power of the internal over the external—of the unconscious over the conscious—but nowhere is its power more evident than in David McLeod’s Untitled Hologram of Time, 2016 and Portrait of a Spinning Man, 2015. McLeod’s portrait literally spins—it’s attached to a device that makes it spin and quiver—suggesting the power of the unconscious to make one’s head spin. In the hologram his face fragments as it moves through time, suggesting the power of the unconscious to fragment the self."

Donald Kuspit, one of America's most important art critics, in an article for Whitehot Magazine, 2017

Abstract Landscapes

oil on canvas, 20x16

Status

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oil on canvas, 28x20"

But Where Am I To Look?

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oil on canvas, 16x27"

Refraction

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oil on canvas, 60x30"

Pearl Blanket

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oil on canvas, 32x18"

For the Clouds

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oil on canvas, 36x24"

Fearless Mother

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David McLeod, b. 1984

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