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JH

Hoist That Rag

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Mercy Pictures
People of Colour


16 October - 7 November 2020

The power and stupidity of flags

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Alicia Frankovich, AQI2020, (performance documentation), 2020. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, commissioned 2020. Supported by the Contemporary Benefactors of Auckland Art Gallery.

Frankovich Performance

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich
AQI2020


21 October - 8 November 2020

Learning from catastrophes

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Installation of Candice Breitz's 'I'm Your Man (A Portrait of Leonard Cohen) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Gift of the Friends of Auckland Art Gallery, 2020

Candice Breitz Looks At Leonard Cohen

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Candice Breitz
I’m Your Man (A Portrait of Leonard Cohen)


31 August 2020 - 6 December 2020

Masculinity and Portraiture


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Installation of Gemma Smith's Thin Air at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Glorious (Almost Undetectable) Paint

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gemma Smith
Thin Air


6 October - 7 November 2020

Methodical research into subtlety

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Installation of Kate Newby and Paul P.'s  As Long As It Goes on street level Michael Lett

Newby and P. Installation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Kate Newby and Paul P.
As Long As You Want


2 October - 31 October 2020

Desire and apprehension

JH
Gary McMillan's Transmission as installed at Fox Jensen McCrory

McMillan’s Loop

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Gary McMillan
Transmission


8 October - 14 November 2020

Dots versus shapes


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Constructing Selves as Brands

Anthony Byrt
The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962


Paperback, 312 pp,
Colour and b/w illustrations


Auckland University Press, June 2020

RCA as hothouse

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Charles Buenconsejo, 2016 – 2020, 2020 (installation view) digital inkjet print, detail, commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Mosaic of Documentation Thumbnails

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga


Charles Buenconsejo
2016—2020, 2020


5 September - 29 November 2020

Assimilation overview

JH

Zac Langdon-Pole Publication

Zac Langdon-Pole: Constellations
Art Journey #5

 

Ed. BMW Group Munich
Essays, introductions and interviews


Published by Hatje Cantz 2019

Lucid and complex


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Layered ‘Abstraction’

Te Tuhi Billboards

Pakuranga

 

Ella Sutherland
Keys to The Book of the City of Ladies

 


6 September - 29 November 2020

Simplified symbolism

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Productless (Unconsciously Political) Advertising

Three digital billboards in central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Meg Porteous

The Gift

 

28 September - 25 October 2020

Word-free promotion

JH
Emil McAvoy, The National Basement, Old Government House, University of Auckland, Image: Archives New Zealand, The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua: AAQT6401-A51176

Marketing a Mythical ‘New Zealand’

Old Government House (in the University of Auckland)

Auckland

 

Emil McAvoy
The National Basement



27 July - 25 September 2020

Is this still happening?


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Installation of Thinking about Thinking about the Future at Te Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

A Post-Covid Future?

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Group show
Thinking About Thinking About the Future

 


27 June - 27 September 2020

Looking ahead at ‘looking ahead’

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Installation of Simon Ingram's GAN Painting at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Gloriously Ambiguous Ingram

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
GAN Painting


9 September - 26 September 2020

Mimicking coloured weaving

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Installation of Grace Wright's Alpha Paradise exhibition at Gow Langsford.

Exuberantly Rococo Wright

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Grace Wright
Alpha Paradise

 

9 September - 26 September 2020

Meteorological ornamentation


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Simon Morris, Colour light (blue), 2020, acrylic paint, jute, wood, light, 500 x 500 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Explorations of Colour Saturation

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris
Colour follows light, light follows colour


5 September - 10 October 2020

How light and thinly layered paint affects texture

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Petra Cortright, Poly_cloth 1, 2020, digital video, 11 m 24 sec, 30 x 40 in. Photo. Sam Hartnett

L.A. Sampler

STARKWHITE

Auckland


Whitney Bedford, Petra Cortright, Kirsten Everberg, Judy Ledgerwood 
Slippery Painting


1 September - 3 October 2020

Four women painters

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Perkins’ Wizardry

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Oliver Perkins
Casting a crisis; painting a cat; looking out a window.


27 August - 26 September 2020

Inventively playful painting


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Phil Dadson, June Music, 2019, 30 acrylic painted weathers roots and branches, suspended from ceiling. Plus 10 drawings (300 x 410 mm each).

Dadson Drawings, Installation and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
RRR

 

8 August - 3 October 2020

Suspended linear sculptural ‘marks’

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Xin Cheng & Eleanor Cooper Unison of Opposites, 2020 Found plastic pipes, plastic bracket, tyre, rope, inner tubing, plastic strapping, lamp, fixings. Photo: Arekahānara

Cheng / Cooper Exhibition

MOKOPŌPAKI

Auckland

 

Xin Cheng and Eleanor Cooper
Greywater

 

16 July 2020 -  12 September 2020

Recognising and solving problems

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Alberto Garcia-Alvarez,  Centennial, 1972, mixed media on canvas, 1870 x 1870 mm; Judy Millar, Three Parts Pink, 2020,	oil and acrylic on canvas, 1800 x 3800 mm overall. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Not Peas in a Pod

Tim Melville and Gow Langsford (Kitchener St) Galleries

Auckland

 

Judy Millar and Alberto Garcia-Alvarez
2 in 1


5 August - 5 September 2020

The benefits of mentoring