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JH
The cover of Iteration Again.

Liveness Quadrupled

Iteration Again
Edited by David Cross
Essays by David Cross and Marco Marcon
Plus assorted curatorial briefs and invited responses with illustrations.
Punctum Books, March 2013

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The cover of Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin

Barry Cleavin Publication

Melinda Johnston with T. L. Rodney Wilson.
Lateral Inversions. The Prints of Barry Cleavin.

Hardback, 288 pp

Canterbury University Press, 2013.

JH
The Bold and The Beautiful at Two Rooms: Elizabeth Thomson, The Cascades; Denis O'Connor, The Verbs; Denis O'Connor, The Whisperants; Gretchen Albrecht, Corona (Roseate). Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Adventurous and the Gorgeous

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Seven artists
The Bold and the Beautiful

 

12 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014


JH
Rob Gardiner's Here and Now at Two Rooms. Untitled (Nos. 2 - 7), 2013, photograph and paint on glass, 1007 x 1007 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Rob Gardiner Photo/Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Rob Gardiner
The Here and Now

 

13 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014

JH
Richard McWhannell, Crossing the Lake, 2013, oil on canvas, 463 x 550 mm

Pierrot the Melancholic Painter

OREXART

Auckland

 

Richard McWhannell
Crossing the Lake

 

3 December - 21 December 2013

JH
A detail of the installation of Chiara Corbelletto's Morphic Field at Bath St Gallery.

Corbelletto’s Mesh Sculpture

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chiara Corbelletto
Morphic Field

 

26 November - 21 December 2013


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Alex Kinnaird and Andres Jensen at Draw Inc.: 113 Alexandra St.

Comic Artists in Hamilton

Draw Inc. @ 113 a Alexandra St

Hamilton

 

Alex Kinnaird and Andres Jensen

 

13 December - 21 December 2013

JH
Glen Hayward, I don't want you to worry about me. I've met some Beautiful People (detail). Photo: Hamish McLaren

Glen Hayward’s Movie Set

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Glen Hayward
I don’t want you to worry about me. I have met some Beautiful People

 

6 December 2013 - 31 January 2014

JH
Andrew Kennedy, a hollow action, a room held together by letters, pigment print, harman gloss, baryta 320 320 gsm, oak frames, chip board, aluminium. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Spotlighting Maurice K. Smith

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Andrew Kennedy and Blaine Western
a hollow action, a room held together by letters

 

28 November - 21 December 2013. 14 January - 1 February 2014


CM
Erica van Zon, Grapefruit Cocktail, 2013, modelling material, toothpicks, acrylic. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Caroline Atkinson

The Novel as Springboard

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Erica van Zon
The Light on the Dock

 

16 November - 26 January 2013

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The TEZA site. Photo: Mark Amery

Aiming at the Local Good in Christchurch

Letting Space in New Brighton Mall

Christchurch

 

Assorted artists and associates
TEZA

 

24 November - 1 December 2013

CM
Marco Fusinato, Mass Black Implosion, series, 2012, ink on archival facsimile score. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Sound’s Relationship with Image

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington


Group show
Sound Full: Sound in Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art


19 October 2013 - 9 February 2014

 


SVG
Brittany Sue Mason, Fragments

Seeing Site

DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Graduate Show
Site 2013

 

23 - 28 November 2013

 

APW
Andrew Drummond, Measuring Devices (Gold, Copper and Platinum)

The Last Symbolist

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Andrew Drummond
from a private site; objects

 

26 November - 21 December 2013

JH
Yvonne Todd, Denim Seagull, 2013, HD digital video (ed. 1 of 3, 2 AP),  framed Panasonic 55” LED TV, 130 x 77 x 6 cm

Varied Todd

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Yvonne Todd
Gentle Disco

 

20 November - 21 December 2013


KL
Ella Sutherland, Slurring of the false spiral, clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic

Thinking about the Ancient Greeks

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Ella Sutherland
An unbearded, athletic youth

 

23 November - 22 December 2013

JH
Richard Killeen, Images from Image Database, at Ivan Anthony.

Ornamental Hybrids from Killeen’s Database

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Reproductions From Image Database

 

20 November - 21 December 2013

JH
Fiona Pardington, Still Life with Colin's Flagon with Precarious Kowhai Flowers and a Pansy, 2013, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 412 x 550 mm

Theatrical Pardington Vanitas Works

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
An Answering Hark: From the McCahon Artist’s Residency 2013

 

8 November - 7 December 2013


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Artist unknown, stitched felt circa 1940s. Part of Stuart Shepherd's collection of folk art displayed at Te Aroha

Promoting Self-taught Artists

96 Centennial Drive

Te Aroha

 

Folk art
New Zealand Folk Art and Design Gallery

 

Ongoing displays

JH
Dane Mitchell, Rheum (Unconscious Material 4), 2013 inkjet print on cotton paper, frame 820 x 594 mm

Amber from the Psyche

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell
Other Explications

 

22 November - 21 December 2013

JH
et al., many to many, 2013 (installation detail), roller chairs, signage, metal tubing, sandbags, helium balloons, swiss balls, particle board, original installation in collaboration with Sean Curham one-to-many and many-to-one Khartoum Place 2010.

In Praise of ‘Invention, Forward Thinking and Liberty’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Twenty New Zealand artists

Freedom Farmers

 

26 October 2013 - 23 February 2014