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Installation view of Bill Culbert: A Bright White Light. at Fox Jensen McCrory

Glorious Light and Shiny Dark

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert
A Bright White Light

 

6 July - 10 August 2024

Culbert (with Hotere)

JH
Phil Dadson, October Mantra - 31 Praise Names, 2023, acrylic and graphite on acid/lignin-free 300gsm cold pressed cotton fibre paper,31 sheets, 415 x 595 mm. Photo: Sait Akkirman

Dadson Paperworks, Sculpture and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
It’s Never All Black and White


12 July - 7 September 2024

Impressive underpinning unity

JH
The smaller Derek Jarman paintings as installed at Gus Fisher. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jarman Paintings

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Derek Jarman
Delphinium Days

 


15 June - 14 September 2024

With film programme


JH
Installation view at Reeves Rd, of Lolani Dalosa's Character Studies billboards. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Dalosa Billboards

Te Tuhi (Reeves Rd) and Parnell Station

Pakuranga

 

Lolani Dalosa
Character Studies

 


12 May - 21 July 2024

Ambiguous and comical didacticism

JH
David McCracken, Pursuit--On the Road to the Sea House, 2024, corten steel, 2720 x 3170 x 1100 mm. Photo: Guy Quartermain

Clever Physical McCracken

Gow Langsford (Onehunga)

Onehunga

 

David McCracken
Attraction and Transmission

 

15 June -13 July 2024

Non-masculinist intricacy

JH
Richard Killeen, Destruction of the Circle, 1990,  acrylic and collage on aluminium, 55 pieces, 1900 x 4250 mm pictured, dimensions variable.

Gow Langsford Killeen Cutout Survey

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

 

Richard Killeen
Hang in any order

 

3 July - 27 July 2024

Stunning range of experimentation


JH
Installation view of Eternally Temporary at Te Uru--Kelliher Art Trust Collection: Rex Turnbull, Last puha before the storm, Taihape, 1973, oil on board, 600 x 750mm; Austen Deans, Kea Hut, Mt Sefton, 1962, oil on board, 715 x 855mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

A Kelliher Selection and its Limitations

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Titirangi

Derek Ball, Austen Deans, Michael Dell, Trenton Garrett, Aroha Gossage, Rodney Hamel, Imogen Taylor, Rex Turnbull, Robert Watson, Toss Woollaston
Eternally Temporary

Works picked from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection


25 May - 4 August 2024

An Impossible Agenda

JH
Ava Seymour, ‘Strange Ways, Here We Go’, 2023. Offset prints on 250gsm matt art paper, 2 units, 841 x 594mm ea. Edition of 300. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Choosing Your Footwear

TREADLER

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Strange Ways, Here We Go


20 June - 13 July 2024

Misreading possibilities

JH

Female ‘Abstraction’?

NORTHART

North Auckland


Sculpture and painting from 36 women
ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT


7 May - 6 July 2024

Deconcentrated diversity


JH
Kāryn Taylor, Double Winged Insight, 2024, cast acrylic, 600 x 800 x 65 mm

Puzzling Light-Exuding Geometry

SANDERSON CONTEMPORARY ART

Auckland

 

Kāryn Taylor
Visual Linguistics



12 June - 7 July 2024

 

Taylor’s meditative ‘mandalas’

JH
Justine Varga, End of Violet (72Y50.5M10c), 2022,chromogenic photograph, 1599 x 1250 mm (framed)

Varga’s Painterly Cameraless Photographs

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Justine Varga
End of Violet

 

7 June - 13 July 2024

 

Exploiting planar frames

JH
Still from Susan Norrie's Spheres of Influence. 2016-19. Single channel video, 26.44 minutes

Pondering Iraq

TWO ROOMS

Auckland


Susan Norrie
Spheres of Influence


7 June -17 July 2024

Post Sadam Hussein


JH
Detail of John Reynolds' Some Greater Plan (for Claire) #9, 2024, metallic marker, acrylic on canvas, 213.30 x 152.30 cm

John Reynolds Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland


John Reynolds
Some Greater Plan (for Claire)


4 June - 6 July 2024

 

Understandably Emotional

JH
Max Gimblett, The Wild One, 2022, acrylic polyester, water-based size, 22kt gold, platinum, Japanese dyed silver, blue varigated leaves on poly-cotton canvas, 203.2 x 165.1 cm

Excessive and Restrained Gimblett

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Max Gimblett
Hands of Gold


5 June - 29 June 2024

Two poles juxtaposed

JH
Stella Brennan, Threads 1, 2024, bathing suit and bucket, metallic print on silvered paper, 660 x 850 mm

Monochromes Approximately

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Galia Amsell, Stella Brennan, Chris Corson-Scott, Phil Dadson, Jennifer French, Brendon Leung, Julia Morison, Kazu Nakagawa, Marie Shannon

 

MONOCHROME[S]

 


31 May - 6 July 2024

Exploring a very limited palette


JH
Installation view of Alex and Sophia Laurie's exhibition, Augur of Mercury, at Grace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Heaven-Bound Sculpture and Chiffonier-Content Drawing

GRACE

 

Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

 

Alex and Sophia Laurie
Augur of Mercury


9 May - 8 June 2024

Two Artists with Contrasting interests

JH
Installational view of Rohan Weallean's exhibition 'Micro Climate Multi Verse' at Ivan Anthony.

Rohan Wealleans: Sculpture/Painting

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

 

Rohan Wealleans


Micro Climate Multi Verse


25 May - 22 June 2024

Two processually connected varieties

JH
Installation view of Geoff Thornley's exhibition 'measure of.' at Fox Jensen McCrory.

Exploring New Painterly Paradigms

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
measure of.


25 May, 2024 - 22 June, 2024

Inventive Thornley


JH
Tony de Lautour, Wrong Way, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 1000 x 1200 mm

Interpretatively Layered de Lautour

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony de Lautour


New Paintings


25 May 2024 - 22 June 2024

Mixing the semantic and political

JH
Installation view of Ruth Watson's Kosmos exhibition at Sumer.

Ambiguously Carpeting Objects with a Forest of Signs

SUMER

Tamaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Ruth Watson

 

Kosmos

 

23 May - 22 June 2024

Wavering Thoughts on the Ethics of Tourism

JH
Stephen Bambury, Twenty Thirty (IX) (Night/Day) 2023. Lacquer & chemical action on two copper panels on ply, 170 x 340 mm

Bambury Show at Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Stephen Bambury
Slow Burn (Redux)


20 March - 18 May 2024

Three Series of Small Crosses