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JH
Dan Arps, Disney Security II, 2021, polyurethane and acrylic paint, 500 x 840 x 140 mm

Arps’ Wall Relief Sculptures

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland


Dan Arps
The Floral Maze


11 March - 10 April 2021

 

Teasing out interpretation

JH
Isabella Loudon, Fragmentation, 2021, concrete, pigment, twine and nails, variable, multi-room scale.

Isabella Loudon’s In Situ Sculptures

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Isabella Loudon
Morph

 

19 February 2021 - 27 March 2021

The linear ossification of cement on twine

JH
Ralph Paine, Near Hudson, NY - or, the meanwhile, 2019

Ralph Paine as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

MERCY PICTURES

Auckland

 

Ralph Paine (Daniel Malone, Giovanni Intra, Ch’lita Collins, Teghan Burt)
Neverlost


18 February 2021 - 13 March 2020

Slipping back & forth in time


JH

Is There a Need for More Humour in New Zealand Art?

the stories of five to ten people: comedy in art
Edited (with an essay for this curated show of 12 artists) by Bryce Galloway


The Engine Room (Massey University) Wellington, February 2021

Do our artists need to ‘lighten up’?

JH
Luca Nicholas, Grindr Study #12, 2017, intaglio on Fabriano Artistico paper, 765 x 560 mm; image 395 x 395 mm.

Grindr goes Intaglio

VISIONS

Auckland

 

Luca Nicholas
Studies 2017 - 18

 


11 February - 20 March 2021

New content for an old method

JH
Paul Johns, BEEN HERE LONG? 2020, rocks, neon, transformers, wood, acrylic and stainless steel, 905 x 1455 x 1085 mm

Paul Johns Exhibition

VISIONS

Auckland

 

Paul Johns
Been Here Long?



11 February - 20 March 2021

Pioneering Christchurch artist


JH
Installation of Denis O'Connor's 'Double Kiss' at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

O’Connor, Theatre and Beckett

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Denis O’Connor
Double Kiss


5 February - 6 March 2021

Exhilarating Irish culture

JH
Gideon Rubin, Untitled, 2020, detail, oil on linen, 51 x 46 cm

Gideon Rubin Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Gideon Rubin
We Thought It Was Heaven Tomorrow


4 February - 13 March 2021

Love of using traditional materials

JH
Bruce Connew, A Vocabulary as installed at Te Uru. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Creating a Common Vocabulary

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Bruce Connew photographs
A Vocabulary


5 December 2020 - 14 February 2021

Gallery display promoting gorgeous book


JH
Front cover. Image is part of Self Portraits (Apple Sees Red On Green), 1962, lithograph on canvas. Tate Collection.

Christina Barton’s Billy Apple® Bio

Christina Barton
Billy Apple® Life / Work
Biographical text: Christina Barton


Auckland University Press, 2020

A comprehensive study

JH

Theatrical & Spectacular Māori Art Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

112 indigenous artists from Aotearoa
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art


4 December, 2020 - 9 May, 2021

Confined by architecture

JH
Julian McKinnon, Apogee, 2020, aluminium, resin, acrylic paint, 800 x 600 mm

Julian McKinnon’s ‘Art Deco’ hybrids

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian McKinnon
Elysium Mons


16 January - 6 February 2021

With glittering resin borders


JH
Will Cooke, Every Wall Is A Door (Gate), 2020, primer and acrylic on aluminium, 1216 x 1016 mm

Slyly Complex Cooke Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Will Cooke
Every Wall is a Door

 


15 January 2021 - 9 February 2021

Competing back and foregrounds

JH
Claudia Kogach,i Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawaiʻi, 2020 (installation view) tufted rugs commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Tufted Rugs Present Domestic Narrative

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Claudia Kogachi
Obaachan during the lockdown, Wahiawā, Hawai’i



5 December 2020 - 7 February 2021

Unusual surface relief

JH
Darcell Apelu, A Death of Prosperity, 2020 (installation view) Perspex, timber, water--commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Darcell Apelu’s Satirical Fountain

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Darcell Apelu
A Death of Prosperity


5 December 2020 - 7 February 2021

Mocking trite economic assumptions


JH
Finn Ferrier, Soft Garniture, 2020, detail, knitted cord

Finn Ferrier’s Knitted Goblets

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Finn Ferrier
Soft Garniture


5 December 2020 - 14 February 2021

‘Ceramics’ of soft cord

JH
Still from Angelica Mesiti, Mother Tongue, 2017, 2 channel video installation. Duration: 18 minutes.

Angelica Mesiti Video Installation

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Angelica Mesiti
Mother Tongue

 

19 December 2020 - 7 February 2021

Musical communities in Denmark

JH

Songsataya’s Fishy ‘Murmurations’

The Lightship (Bledisloe Wharf)

Auckland

 

Sorawit Songsataya
Come Up For Air

 

10 December 2020 - 4 February 2021.

Waterfront spectacle


JH
James Ross, Vista (2), 2020, oil on 3 panels, 47.5 x 55 cm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Ross Gives Thanks

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

James Ross
Constructed Forms - After Mondrian

 

27 November - 23 December 2020

Rectangular Format

JH
Jonny Niesche, Poikilos, installtion view, Starkwhite, November 2020. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jonny Niesche Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jonny Niesche
Poikilos


17 November - 15 December 2020

Discombobulating

JH
Roger Boyce, In My Tiny Village, 2020, oil on board, 300 x 350 mm

Peopleless Spaces; In Forum about Meaning

{Suite} AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce
Arena


18 November -  12 December 2020

Or impact of Covid