Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to EyeContact. You are invited to respond to reviews and contribute to discussion by registering to participate.

 

JH
Gary Peters, A Slow Take, 2017 (installation view) commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Two Site-Specific Paintings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Gary Peters
A Slow Take

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

Examining the gallery architecture

JH
Installation at Te Tuhi of Shannon Te Ao's With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shannon Te Ao at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Shannon Te Ao
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods


18 Nov 2017 - 25 Feb 2018

The work from Edinburgh

JH
Kushana Bush's The Burning Hours at Re Uru. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Kushana Bush in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Kushana Bush

The Burning Hours


25 November 2017 - 18 February 2018

Touring DPAG show


JH

Anna Rankin’s Billboards of Innovative Poetry

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Anna Rankin
hail to

 

18 November 2017 - 25 February 2018

Fusing text with image

JH

A City Is Not a City if…..

Saving Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

JH

New Len Lye Anthology

The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye


Edited by Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks

 

Canterbury University Press, 2017

Published in Christchurch


JH

Carl Sydow Publication

Carl Sydow
Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows

Text: Peter Vangioni

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2017

Peter Vangioni project

JH
Installation of Denys Watkins' Dynamo Hum exhibition in the Gus Fisher. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Denys Watkins Painting Sampler and Book

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

Denys Watkins: Paintings 2004-2016
Dynamo Hum

17 November - 15 December 2017

Gus Fisher survey

JH
Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė, Hollow Earth, 2013, HD video, 08:15, as installed at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett. Image courtesy of the artists and Artspace.

Before It Happens

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International group video show

Ex-ante


27 October - 22 December 2017

de Blaaij-organised show


JH
Michael Stevenson, Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183, 2017. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki with commissioning partners the Biennale of Sydney 2018 and Monash University museum of Art /MUMA. Photograph: Jennifer French

Michael Stevenson at AAG

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183


12 November 2017 - 6 February 2017

Evangelical tertiary education

JH
The installation of Simon Denny's Founders Board Game Prototype, 2017, downstairs in Michael Lett

Denny and Byrt in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Simon Denny
The Founder’s Paradox

 

18 November - 22 December 2017

Art and essays intermingled

JH
Installation of Jeena Shin's Movement Image Time exhibition at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Shin Works on Canvas and Paper

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Movement Image Time

 

27 October - 25 November

Less holistic patterning


JH
John Stezaker, Marriage (Film Portrait Collage) CVI, 2013, collage, 30.3 x 23.3 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London.

Repulsively Enchanting Stezaker

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

John Stezaker
Lost World

 

26 August -19 November 2017

Disturbing partially-merged juxtapositions

JH
Tomislav Nikolic, How Long Must We Live Right Before We Don't Even Have To Try (Role Model), 2017: #1, mixed medai; #2, mixed media; #3, mixed media;

Tomislav Nikolic Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic

How long must we live right before we don’t even have to try

12 October - 11 November 2017

More imposing than ever

JH
Phil Dadson: Notation  Series #6 (961), painting; Tonethrone, instrument; HEADSUP@961: 23.8.16, projection

Dadson at Headlands

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Shiver Me Timbres: Solos and Collaborations with a Multi-Voiced Instrument

 

5 October - 28 October 2017

Fulbright-Wallace Residency


JH
Alexis Hunter, Untitled, undated and unsigned, ink and watercolour on paper, 275 x 380 mm

Alexis Hunter Sampler

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alexis Hunter
Estate

 

6 October - 11 November 2017

Feminist pioneer

JH
Michael Stevenson, Inside the keep Out Shed', c.1988, graphite on paper, 112 x 149 mm

Michael Stevenson Drawings

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Inside the Keep Out Shed

 

4 October - 4 November 2018

Small town sketches

JH
Installation of John Yau and Kathy Barry's Midway, at Objectspace, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Collaborating Artists’ Book

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 

Kathy Barry & John Yau
Midway: A Collectif Génération Collaboration

 

30 September-26 November 2017

Barry-Yau-Jassaud partnership


JH

Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

Priscilla Pitts & Andrea Hotere

Undreamed of…50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

Essays, multiple biographies and foreword by Priscilla Pitts, Andrea Hotere, Joanne Campbell, Sharon Dell


Otago University Press, September 2017

Its history—and multiple recipients

JH
Christopher Braddock and Olivia Webb, Skull Acoustics, 2017--part of the AUT Symposium: Art and Performace held at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Photo: Olivia Webb

The Vagaries of Communication

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Chris Braddock and Olivia Webb
Skull Acoustics

 

7 October 2017: 12.20 pm

A Braddock-Webb performance

JH
Installation of Campbell Patterson's Nau Sea works at Michael Letts.

Moods of Infinity

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
Moods of Infinity

 

2 September - 30 September 2017

Patterson at Lett