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JH
Anto Yeldezian, Wall Games, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 1400 x 1900 mm, detail

A Drive to Conquer

COASTAL SIGNS

Anto Yeldezian


Area


31 January - 1 March 2025

A Dominating Ethos

JH
Huseyin Sami, Cut Painting (BP), 2025, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 152.5 cm

The Creative Pleasures of ‘Mutilation’

SUMER

Huseyin Sami

 

Rhythm & Cuts

 

31 January - 1 March 2025

Using Both Sides of the Canvas

JH
Martin Creed, Work No. 3766, 2023, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, pencil on paper, 31 x 23.2 cm / 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches

Nifty ‘Brusherly’ Creed

MICHAEL LETT

Martin Creed


Like Favourite Socks in a Drawer


29 January - 1 March 2025

Chuckles & Sensuality Galore

JH
Overall installation view of Judy Darragh's Forest of Dreams at Two Rooms

A Forest of Darraghs

TWO ROOMS

Judy Darragh


Forest of Dreams


31 January 2025 - 1 March 2025

A collective of assemblages

JH
Rohan Hartley Mills, (left) Fools Gold, 2023, aluminium foil and acrylic paint on newsprint and cardboard (right) Crayola Payola, 2024, Oil on papier-mâché and cardboard.

Exciting Pah Collection

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Two dozen painters, sculptors and jewellers

 

Pushing Parallels
Curated by Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall and Michael Prosee

 

23 November 2024 - 9 March 2025

Display of recent historic works

JH
Installation of Ingo Meller at Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland

What Painting is

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Ingo Meller

Ingo Meller

 

30 January - 29 March, 2025

Exploring rudimentary smears

JH
Olafur Eliasson, Life is lived along lines, 2009; Installation view: Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2024; Photo: David St George; Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin

Superb Eliasson

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Olafur Eliasson
Your curious journey

 

7 December 2024 - 23 March 2025

Poetics of Space, Light, & Light-Infused Water

JH
Jenny Holzer, STATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015, a four-sided vertical LED sign: with RGB diodes, stainless steel housing, robotic rotator and hoist, © 2015 Jenny Holzer, ARS. Photo: Collin LaFleche.

Holzer’s Cascading Truisms

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Jenny Holzer
STATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015

Curated by Natasha Conland

 

27 March 2024 - 9 March 2025

‘Lightfalls’ of Glowing Maxims

JH
Gretchen Albrecht, Receptum, 1988, gouache and collage on paper, six panels, 2140 x 4700 mm (overall)

Collaging Albrecht

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Gretchen Albrecht
Liquid States


3 November 2024 - 2 February 2025

Investigating agitated planes and edges

JH
Ralph Paine, À la Leibnitz, eight framed drawings of watercolour and pencil. Each 230 x 310 mm.

Paine as Fan Boy

CHARLES NINOW

Auckland

 

Ralph Paine
Leaves From a Pillow Book

 

December 5 - December 21, 2024

Drawings, Collages and Brief Texts

JH
Installation shot of Veronica Herber's Making My Way Home exhibition at Melanie Roger.

Herber’s Torn Tape Graphite Grids

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Veronica Herber
Making My Way Home


14 November - 7 December 2024

Grey Matte Paper

JH
Heather Straka, Age of Discovery The Painter, 2021, archival pigment on Photorag Ultrasmooth, 765 x 1135 mm.

Constructed Straka Photographs

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Heather Straka
Isolation Hotel

 

26 November - 21 December 2024

Carefully chosen models, backdrops and props

JH
Winston Roeth, Belmont Quintet, 2024, Kremer pigments and polyurethane dispersion on five slate panels, 50,8 x 168.4 cm

The Pleasures of Chromatic Individuality

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Winston Roeth
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing

 

16 November - 14 December 2024

 

Efficacious Juxtapositions

JH
Milli Jannides, Wide Meshed Nets, 2024, oil on linen and silk, 2400 x 1800 mm

Jannides ‘Abstractions’ & Portraits

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Milli Jannides
Shivers


15 November -14 December 2024

Twitchy experimentation

JH
Sam Rountree Williams, Headlands, 2024, oil on linen, 204 x 153 cm

The Self as Lighthouse

SUMER

Auckland


Sam Rountree Williams
Headlands


14 November - 14 December 2024

 

Symbols galore!

JH
Louise Fong, Deng (Lantern), 2007, acrylic, ink, and enamel on board, 1100 x 1200 mm

Opulent and Hauntingly Evocative Fong

BERGMAN GALLERY

Auckland

 

Luise Fong
Nexus



12 November - 30 November 2024

Varied Mini-Survey

JH
Paul Davies, Untitled, 2024, acrylic on linen, 153 cm x 122 cm

Perplexing ‘Wildernesses’

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Paul Davies
Still Frame

 

24 October - 24 November 2024

 

Obliterated horizons & intervening edges

JH
Michael Harrison, Crossroads, 2005-2024, acrylic on paper, 210 x 297 mm

Deliciously Ambiguous Harrison

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Michael Harrison
Ghost Selection Path


19 October - 16 November 2024

Owners and their pets

JH
Ronnie van Hout, The Second Coming, 2024, promotional image

Doomsday van Hout

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland


Ronnie van Hout
The Second Coming


19 October - 16 November 3024

Fleeing a vengeful Jesus

JH
Paul Hartigan, Oil on Canvas, 2024, neon on paper. MED: 450 mm x 720 mm x 40 mm; LGE: 560 mm x 920 mm x 40 mm

Recent Hartigan Works

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Paul Hartigan
I LIGHT

 

9 October - 2 November 2024

Neon Texts & Evanescent Paintings

JH
John Bailey, Study for the Kowhai Project, 2024, Flashe acrylic and charcoal on Sennelier 300gsm watercolour paper, 660 x 550 mm (paper size).

Interpreting ‘Simple’ Shape

OREXART

Auckland

 

John Bailey
John Bailey

 

5 October - 26 October 2024

Flat but Twisting

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