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JH
Two contributions to The Confessions: Patricia Piccinini in Silo 5, and in the distant Silo 6, Monique Lacey.

Bridging Over Time

Scott Lawrie @ Silo 6

Downtown Auckland

 

Inga Fillary, Amadeo Grosman, Rebecca Hazard, Monique Lacey, Patricia Piccinini, Rebecca Wallis
The Confessions

10 July - 23 July 2022

Conceptual parallels?

JH
Installation of Noel Ivanoff's Stem to Stern exhibition at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Noel Ivanoff’s Unfrenetic Finger Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff
Stem to Stern


8 July - 6 August 2022

Intricate spatial subtlety

JH
Deanna Dowling, Concrete probabilities, 2022, fabric, concrete (aggregate and trace seawater, collected from seawalls). Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Inoculation by Contact or Memory

Te Tuhi Project Wall

Pakuranga

 

Deanna Dowling
Concrete Probabilities


12 June - 4 September 2022

Homeopathy’ within the ocean


JH
Robert Rapson, Against the Tide, 2022, a detailed installation view at Te Uru; courtesy of the artist and Te Uru. Photograph by Sam Hartnett

Expressionist ships and wobbly buildings

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Robert Rapson

 

Against the Tide

 

11 June - 7 August 2022

Putative ‘Outsider Artist’

JH
Gerold Miller, set 456, 2018, lacquered aluminium, 250  x 200 x 10.80 cm

Body to the Left; Mind to the Right

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gerold Miller
Monoform


1 June - 2 July 2022

Gerold Miller’s dualistic split

JH
Installation view of Matt Henry's exhibition 'Double Grammar Zone' at PHOTO OP.

Matt Henry Photographs

PHOTO OP.

Auckland

 

Matt Henry
Double Grammar Zone


4 June - 2 July 2022

Ambiguous tampered-with signage


JH
Installation shot of Ornamental Friends as displayed in Season.

The Pleasures of Cross-Discipline Hybridity

SEASON

Auckland

 

Hamish Coleman; Maia McDonald, Lucy Meyle, Moniek Schrijer, Sanuel Te Kani

Ornamental Friends


19 May - 11 June 2022

Third Season show

JH
Installation detail of Richard Killeen's Multiplicity exhibition at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Killeen’s Multiple Alignments

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Multiplicity


5 May 2020 - 4 June 2020

Image collections, each with four possible ‘narratives’

JH
Still from Hye Rim Lee, Black Rose, 2021, HD 3D animated video, 05:20 min

Spectacular Hye Rim Lee Animation

In Scott Lawrie's stockroom show

Auckland

 

Hye Rim Lee
Black Rose video


7 May - 28 May 2022

Overwhelming colour and texture


JH
Bill Henson, Untitled, #2/75, 1990-91, from the series Paris Opera Project, Archival inkjet pigment print, 142 x 127 cm

Henson’s Fascination with Light & Interiority

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Bill Henson
Selected Works


6 May - 29 May 2022

Portraits and landscapes

JH
Installation of Clare Brodie's 'Elusive Forms' at Scott Lawrie Gallery.

Treescape Abstractions

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland


Clare Brodie
Elusive Forms


7 May - 28 May 2022

Brodie’s botanical shapes

JH
Marie Shannon, Bedroom Window Still Life, 2021, digital inkjet print on Ilford Galerie Prestige 310gsm, 608 x 760 mm unframed. 855 x 995 mm framed.

Light Through and On Surface

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Marie Shannon
Sleeping Near the River + New Works

 

20 April - 11 June 2022

 

Shannon’s Whanganui Project


JH
Installation of Fu-On Chung's exhibition, Talisman, upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Fu-On Chung Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fu-On Chung
Talisman


22 April - 28 May 2022

Watery, veiled, jewel-like abstractions

JH
Still from Fiona Amundsen (with Joanna Macy), Life on Earth, 2022, single screen, 13.00 min

Artspace Installation of Videos

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Fiona Amundsen (with Joanna Macy), Susan Schuppli, Chia-Wei Hsu
Ex-Post


4 March — 14 May 2022

A Remco de Blaaij project

JH
Steve Carr, A Deflated Basketball with Water, 2022, cast bronze and water, 215 x 190 x 170mm.

Carr at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Steve Carr
Making Time


7 April - 14 May 2022

Contrasting speeds of transmutation


JH
'He Putunga Taonga / Collections & Connections'. Part of 'Te Whiwhinga the Imaginarium' display on Level 1 of Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Fabulous Museum Sampler

MAKI PAENGA HIRA AUCKLAND MUSEUM

Auckland

 

Selection of items from the Collections
He Putunga Taonga / Collections & Connections


Part of Te Whiwhinga the Imaginarium display on Level 1

Visual introduction to the Collections

JH
'Geoff Thornley: From the Collection of Dame Jenny Gibbs', as installed at Gow Langsford.

Geoff Thornley Mini-Survey

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
From the Collection of Dame Jenny Gibbs

 

16 March - 2 April 2022

Seventies and eighties period

JH
Jeena Shin, Time-delay 1, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 1200 x 850 mm

Seven Shin Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Time-Delay


11 March - 14 April 2022

Teasing out the vicissitudes of light


JH
Yona Lee, An Arrangement For 5 Rooms, 2022. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Supported by the Contemporary Benefactors of the AAG, Asia NZ Foundation and Chow:Hill. Courtesy of Fine Arts, Sydney. Photo: Jennifer French and Paul Chapman

Almost Strictly Ocular

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Yona Lee
An Arrangement for Five Rooms

 

26 February - 2 October 2022

Not formalist nor interactive

JH
Andrew Barber: Shipwreck, 2022, resin and oak flooring, dimensions variable; Stiff Blanket (monocultural agriculture), 2022, ink and linen, 2700 x 2700 mm, recto. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Aotearoa’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Shipwreck


4 February - 5 March 2022

Andrew Barber’s shipwreck scene

JH
Installation of Paul Lee's 'Desert Flowers' at Michael Lett.

Paul Lee’s Tactile Erotic Hothouse

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Paul Lee
Desert Flowers


25 February - 2 April 2022

Filmy heads, bouquets or percussive under-garments