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PI
Lucien Rizos, Cabinet, the original catalogue, Lucien and family. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

The Empire Strikes Back

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Lucien Rizos
Marble Art Ltd

 

31 May - 17 June 2017

JH
Yona Lee, In Transit (Arrival), 2017, as installed. Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland, in association with Auckland Arts Festival. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Crossing Barriers

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Yona Lee
In Transit (Arrival)

 

11 March - 19 November 2017

 

PI
Marti Friedlander, Subdivision 1966, 2000. Gelatin silver prints, toned with gold, 479x479mm. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Marti Friedlander, with assistance from the Elise Mourant Bequest, 2001.

Accommodating the Kaupapa

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group show
The Us in I: documentary photographs from the Collection 

 

10 September 2016 - 4 June 2017


MA
Dan Arps, Navigator, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable. On walls, Franz Josef, 2017, acrylic on wall, dimensions variable.

Whiteout Blackout

ROBERT HEALD GALLERY

Wellington

 

Dan Arps
Tinnitis Miracle

 

11 May - 3 June 2017

JH
Tony de Lautour, Modern Letters 1, 2017, oil and acrylic on board in found frame, 1580 x 970 mm

De Lautour’s Contemporary Epistles

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony de Lautour
Modern Letters

 

17 May -10 June 2017

PI
Frances Hodgkins, Dutch woman reading, 1906, watercolour, 620 x 450 mm. Courtesy of Avenal McKinnon

Local Girl Makes Good

MAHARA GALLERY

Waikanae

 

Frances Hodgkins
An Emerging Talent: early works by Frances Hodgkins


9 April - 4 June 2017


APW
Clare Logan, Wavering shade, oil on board, 350 x 350 mm

Waterfalls at Night

CITY ART DEPOT

Christchurch

 

Clare Logan
A Lingering Dark

 

12 May - 3 June 2017

LO
Installation of This Might Be the Place at Ilam campus Gallery. Photo: Rachael Pugh

Photography and Suspicion

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Emil McAvoy, Caroline McQuarrie, Johanna Mechen
This Might Be The Place

 

3 May - 1 June 2017

BJP
Installation of Eve Armstrong's China and Hardware (2017) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Wallpaper, paint, photographic image on vinyl. Photograph courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett, Auckland.

Pantomimes of History

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Eve Armstrong
Growing Demand

 

29 April - 9 July 2017


NH
Still from Cat Auburn and Estella Castle, Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, two channel HD video. Photo: Auburn and Castle

Magical Thinking

THE SUTER ART GALLERY TE ARATOI O WHAKATU

Nelson


Cat Auburn and Estella Castle, Roger Boyce, Glenn Burrell, Andrea Gardner, Julia Morison, Reuben Paterson, Nathan Pohio and Chloe Rose Taylor.
The River Lie

Curated by Sarah McClintock

18 February - 28 May 2017

APW
Installation of Sarah Contos' Daughter Universe at Roslyn Oxley9.

Sarah Contos and Linde Ivimey

ROSLYN OXLEY9 GALLERY

Sydney

 

Sarah Contos
Daughter Universe

 

18 May - 17 June 2017

JH
Installation of Glen Snow's Would Not Frame at Antoinette Godkin.

Repurposing Framing Elements

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Glen Snow
Would not frame

 

2 May - 27 May 2017


Ruth Watson, Geophagy (2017). Installation with recycled pallets, second hand clothing, monitors with 5 single-channel, looped HD videos. Dimensions variable. (detail). Photograph: Sam Hartnett and Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland.

Eating Dirt

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Ruth Watson
Geophagy

 

28 April - 27 May 2017

JH
Still from Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, That which identifies them like the eye of the Cyclops, 2016. Three-channel digital video, sound, colour; 10:11 minutes.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz at AUT

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Their movements retain the light of the sun

 

13 April - 26 May 2017

wf
Don Peebles, Relief construction: yellow and black, 1966. Painted wood on panel. Collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1966

Don Peebles’ Constructions

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Don Peebles
Don Peebles: Relief Constructions

 

8 April - 3 September 2017


JH
Alex Vivian, Entry level sculpture (things), 2015, metal fencing, iron, wire, handbag, clothing cut-offs, rust, flannelette, glue, paper, plastic plane, towel, synthetic fur, adhesive, 500 x 1200 x 250 approx. mm

Frottage Cottage

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Group show 

Frottage Cottage

 

19 April - 20 May 2017

PI
Grahame Sydney, Cook House

The Art of Complaint

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SH
Installation of Ol Map Blong Vanuatu at Fondation Suzanne Bastein.

Surrealism Blong Vanuatu?

Fondation Suzanne Bastien, Pango

Port Vila

 

Patrice Cujo
Ol Map Blong Vanuatu

 

Permanent display


JH
Rematerialised, as installed at Demo. Photo: Sait Akkirman

Materialised Painting – a Reprise, an Echo

DEMO

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Rematerialised


27 April - 29 April 2017

PI
Capture / photographs from the Collection, as installed at New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Shed 11.

Split Second History

NEW ZEALAND PORTRAIT GALLERY

Wellington


Group exhibition
Capture / photographs from the Collection.

 

20 February - 23 April 2017

MD
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Look out, Fred! 2017. Image courtesy of Shaun Matthews and Enjoy Public Art Gallery.

Copacetic

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE

Wellington

 

Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Look out, Fred!

 

6 April - 29 April 2017