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Chia-En Jao, REM Sleep, 2011, installation view, three channel video. Photo by Samuel Hartnett

SE Asian Working Migrant Anxieties

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Chia-En Jao
REM Sleep


20 August - 22 October 2023

A labour force’s nightmares

JH
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Logic Paralyzes the Heart, 2021, (installation view, Te Tuhi, 2023) single channel video, wallpaper, photo by Samuel Hartnett

Human-Cyborg Conversation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Logic Paralyzes the Heart



20 August - 22 October 2023

Looking closely at Artificial Intelligence

JH
Raymond Zada, Barkindji people, At Face Value, 2013. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra purchased 2014. This acquisition was acquired in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.

Spectacular Indigenous Australian Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Indigenous Art from the National Gallery of Australia and the Wesfarmers Collection

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia


29 July - 29 October 2023

Its contemporary art practices surprisingly varied


JH
Gerold Miller, TO 15, 2020, lacquered aluminium, 180 x 180 x 11.30 cm; Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2017, C-print, 79.50 x 95.50 cm

Exultant and Optimistic Abstraction

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

International group show
Ümwelt


1 September - 30 September 2023

Exhilaratingly Celebratory Non-Objective Art

JH
Catherine Griffiths, 7/7, 14 Views, 2023, installation view, masked acrylic wall paint, photo by Samuel Hartnett

Catherine Griffiths’ Wall Drawing

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Catherine Griffiths
7/7, 14 Views



20 August - 22 October 2023

Multi-layered semantically?

JH
Installation view of Richard Killeen's 'Stack and Tin Jar' exhibition at Ivan Anthony.

Loose Canvas Killeens

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Stack and Tin Jar

 

3 August - 2 September 2023

Two sorts, perhaps connected


JH
Installation view of Denys Watkins' exhibition IDLE MOMENTS at Ivan Anthony.

Watkins Overhead

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

 

Denys Watkins
IDLE MOMENTS

 


3 August - 2 September 2023

‘Flatland’ painting with aerial views

JH
Richard Maloy, Palette (Painting 4), 2023, canvas print (framed), 67 x 82 cm

Richard Maloy’s Palette Photographs

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 


Richard Maloy

Raw



27 July -26 August 2023

Looking at representation and process

JH
Installation shot of Simon Ingram's exhibition, 'Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension' at Gow Langsford, Auckland Tamaki Makaurau.

Open Interpretation on Offer

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

 

Simon Ingram
Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension



8 August 2023 - 26 August 2023

Exploring pareidolia


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Ann Shelton, 'i am an old phenomenon' (2022–ongoing). Pigment prints, handmade cedar stands. Courtesy the artist and Two Rooms, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Witches, Female Shamans and Chemical Aids

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

International Group show

She Would Lie on her Back and Sink

 

3 June - 26 August 2023

An alternative to Christianity

JH
Denis O'Connor, Pencil Sharpener, 2022, wooden ruler, carved pigmented Welsh slate, 200 x 255 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett, courtesy of Two Rooms

Seductive Ersatz Metonymy & Denis O’Connor

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Denis O’Connor
Lucken’s Margin


21 July - 19 August 2023

Static painted slices from recalled narratives

JH
Michael Shepherd, 1914, 2021, acrylic on board, 750 x 900 mm.

Michael Shepherd’s Stay in Otago

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Michael Shepherd
Gond


21 July - 19 August 2023

Even incorporating plant and insect parts


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Denise Batchelor, Maureen Lander & Stìobhan Lothian, Ngaru Paewhenua, 2023, dried harakeke strips, single-channel video and sound, commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Climate Crisis Exhibition at Pakuranga

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland


International Group show
Huaere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear


Gallery presentation: 4 June 2023 - 5 August 2023

Gallery addition to online version

JH
Jan Albers: suntOOth, 2021, bronze, 80 x 40 x 10 cm; rEdEdgE, 2023, spray paint on polystyrene and wood in acrylic glass box, 170 x 120 cm

Hot Chunky ‘Concrete’ with Incandescent ‘Crystals’

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Jan Albers
rEdEdgE

 


18 July - 19 August 2023

Glowing light from ‘internal’ heat or reflected surfaces

JH
Rosemary Mayer, Midwinter Ghost, 1980-1981/2023, new sculpture created by the estate of Rosemary Mayer, paper, ribbons, cords, wooden rods, metallic paint,  watercolour pastel,  193 x 259 x 284.5 cm. Photo: Andreas Mϋller

Processual Notations for Body Parts, Traces or Coverings

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Altin, Charan, Hopf, Lertxundi, Mayer

Scores for Transformation

 

24 June -18 August 2023

International group show


JH
Installation of Jan van der Ploeg's Homage to the Circle, at Sumer, 2023.

Van der Ploeg at Sumer

SUMER

Auckland

 

Jan van der Ploeg
Homage to the Circle

 


5 July - 29 July 2023

Canvases and wall paintings

JH
Robin Neate, Gloria Grahame, 2013, oil on canvas, 1830 x 1365 mm

‘Hollywood-Canterbury’ & ‘French’ Abstractions

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Robin Neate
Ray & The Other Yesterdays


5 July - 29 July 2023

Robin Neate’s hybrid allusions

JH

Dusky Sound / Tamatea Revisited

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Mark Adams, Darren Glass, Ian Macdonald, Haru Sameshima
Tamatea—Dusky Sound 1995


9 June -15 July 2023

Old photographic technologies reutilised


JH
Still from Ufuoso Essi's forty-one minute long film on Black congretational communities in London and Philadelphia, Is My Living in Vain. Currently screening at Te Uru.

Trans-Atlantic Celebration of Gospel Music & Its Ethos

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Ufuoma Essi
Is My Living in Vain


13 May 2023 - 23 July 2023

Strategies of Black evangelical survival

JH
Installation of Rozana Lee's Cages of Memories series at Te Uru.

Cultural Osmosis, or the Opposite, a Non-Absorbent Identity?

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rozana Lee
Sekali pendatang, tetap pendatang


18 March - 30 July 2023

Wavering between the two

JH
John B Turner:  Paul Hartigan and Ron Brownson visiting the exhibition of my work at the Bowerbank Ninow Gallery, 10 Lorne Street, Auckland CBD, 30 January 2020

A Thorough Look at Archiving Photographs

Auckland


John B. Turner


New Zealand’s Photo Treasures Heading For the Tip?

Detailed John Turner discussions