Will McLeod is a multidisciplinary artist that specializes in puzzling machine sewn textiles, and painting and drawing. His paintings and drawings are both free-form and intentional. The fabric pieces are compositionally derived from those 2-D works. The textiles are homages to process and are created with a pattern maker’s eye via a paint-by-numbers style development. All McLeod’s compositions are a bit alien and abstract but have a connectivity that grounds their weirdness.
Will’s work has been shown in the New York upstate area at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Hudson Hall Opera House, The Fireplace Project, Turley Gallery, Circle 46 Gallery, D’Arcy Simpson Gallery, Prattsville Art Center, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, ArtSee, ArtPort Kingston, Incident Report, Art Austerlitz and others, and his art has been displayed at New York Fashion week.
Notably, in addition to his own practice, McLeod has directed and acted in film-maker Mark Allen’s films, sewn many of artist Meg Lipke’s slumpy, stuffed paintings, and has designed dresses for FLOTUS Michelle Obama when working for fashion designer Tanya Taylor.
Will lives and works in Hudson, New York.
