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The SaVAge K’lub, MAKING SPACE at CoCA. Installation view. 2017. Photo by Janneth Gil.

Comparing Art Collectives

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

Exhibition of collectives
MAKING SPACE / Whakarite Wāhi

 

10 June -20 August 2017

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Riff Raff, Fffuture Fffocused Art Prize (exhibition entrance), 2017. Image: Daegan Wells.

Walters Prize Send Up

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Riff Raff
Fffuture Fffocused Art Prize

 

17 June - 16 July 2017

SH
Visesio Siasau's exhibition, ‘Uli i he ‘Uli - Black on Black, as installed at OREXART.

The Fertile Void

OREXART

Auckland

 

Visesio Siasau 
‘Uli i he ‘Uli - Black on Black

 

8 June - 1 July 2017

 


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Geoffrey Clarke, Vernacular, 2017, ink on synthetic canvas, 1600 mm x 1900 mm.

Flippant Abstraction

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Geoffrey Clarke
Vernacular

 

1 June - 29 June 2017

BJP
Seraphine Pick, Still Life II, 2017, oil on linen, 235 x 305 mm.

Modernist Interiors

BRETT McDOWELL GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Séraphine Pick
Cavewomen

 

2 June - 29 June, 2017

JH
Sarah Lucas, NUD CYCLADIC 3, 6, 10, 2010, all three: nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks, steel wire. Tate: Purchased 2012.

The Body Laid Bare: The Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Tate Collection
The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate


18 March -16 July 2017


JH
Simon Ingram's Digital Plastique exhibition as installed at Gow Langsford.

Human-Robot Duets

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
Digital Plastique

 

31 May-24 June 2017

JH
Still from Jeremy Leatinu'u's Earthpushers, 2017, video work commissioned by Te Tuhi.

Ferrying the Spiritual

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Jeremy Leatinu’u
Earthpushers

 

13 May - 22 October 2017

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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


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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

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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


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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

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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