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JH
Detail of John Reynolds' Some Greater Plan (for Claire) #9, 2024, metallic marker, acrylic on canvas, 213.30 x 152.30 cm

John Reynolds Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland


John Reynolds
Some Greater Plan (for Claire)


4 June - 6 July 2024

 

Understandably Emotional

JH
Max Gimblett, The Wild One, 2022, acrylic polyester, water-based size, 22kt gold, platinum, Japanese dyed silver, blue varigated leaves on poly-cotton canvas, 203.2 x 165.1 cm

Excessive and Restrained Gimblett

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Max Gimblett
Hands of Gold


5 June - 29 June 2024

Two poles juxtaposed

JH
Stella Brennan, Threads 1, 2024, bathing suit and bucket, metallic print on silvered paper, 660 x 850 mm

Monochromes Approximately

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Galia Amsell, Stella Brennan, Chris Corson-Scott, Phil Dadson, Jennifer French, Brendon Leung, Julia Morison, Kazu Nakagawa, Marie Shannon

 

MONOCHROME[S]

 


31 May - 6 July 2024

Exploring a very limited palette


JH
Installation view of Alex and Sophia Laurie's exhibition, Augur of Mercury, at Grace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Heaven-Bound Sculpture and Chiffonier-Content Drawing

GRACE

 

Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

 

Alex and Sophia Laurie
Augur of Mercury


9 May - 8 June 2024

Two Artists with Contrasting interests

JH
Installational view of Rohan Weallean's exhibition 'Micro Climate Multi Verse' at Ivan Anthony.

Rohan Wealleans: Sculpture/Painting

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland Tamaki Makaurau

 

Rohan Wealleans


Micro Climate Multi Verse


25 May - 22 June 2024

Two processually connected varieties

JH
Installation view of Geoff Thornley's exhibition 'measure of.' at Fox Jensen McCrory.

Exploring New Painterly Paradigms

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
measure of.


25 May, 2024 - 22 June, 2024

Inventive Thornley


JH
Tony de Lautour, Wrong Way, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 1000 x 1200 mm

Interpretatively Layered de Lautour

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony de Lautour


New Paintings


25 May 2024 - 22 June 2024

Mixing the semantic and political

JH
Installation view of Ruth Watson's Kosmos exhibition at Sumer.

Ambiguously Carpeting Objects with a Forest of Signs

SUMER

Tamaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Ruth Watson

 

Kosmos

 

23 May - 22 June 2024

Wavering Thoughts on the Ethics of Tourism

JH
Stephen Bambury, Twenty Thirty (IX) (Night/Day) 2023. Lacquer & chemical action on two copper panels on ply, 170 x 340 mm

Bambury Show at Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Stephen Bambury
Slow Burn (Redux)


20 March - 18 May 2024

Three Series of Small Crosses


JH
Installation shot of Ava Seymour's Domestic Wild at Te Uru. Courtesy of Te Uru. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat.

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Ava Seymour
Domestic Wild


9 March - 26 May 2024

Pondering pussycats

JH
Still from Gregory Bennett's animated film, Folding of the Time, 2024. Courtesy of Gregory Bennett.

Bennett and Vor-stellen Partnership

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Tamaki Makaurau


Gregory Bennett, Vor-stellen
Folding of the Time


20 April - 4 May 2024

Music and animation

JH
Installation view of Fiona Connor's Thump at Coastal Signs

Fiona Connor’s ‘Thump’

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

Fiona Connor

Thump

18 April 2024 - 25 May 2024

Practical Art School references


JH
Installation of Stephen Bram at Sumer

Bram at Sumer

SUMER

Auckland

Stephen Bram

Stephen Bram

17 April - 18 May 2024

Contrasting types of practice within the show

JH

‘Take What You Have Gathered From Coincidence.’

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Eight New Zealand artists and five Finnish ones


Eight Thousand Layers of Moments


15 March 2024 - 11 May 2024

 

Finland/Aotearoa partnership

JH
Patrick Pound, Looking up, Looking Down, 2023, found photographs on swing files, 3100 x 1030 mm in 14 parts (490 x 400 mm each)

Uplifted or Down-Lowered Eyes

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland


Patrick Pound
Just Looking


3 April 2024 - 20 April 2024

Pondering P. Pound


JH
Installation view of Richard Reddaway/Grant Takle/Terry Urbahn's New Cuts Old Music installation at Te Uru, top floor. Photo: Terry Urbahn

Collaborative Reddaway / Takle / Urbahn Installation

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 


Richard Reddaway, Grant Takle and Terry Urbahn
New Cuts Old Music

 


23 March - 26 May 2024

two linked spaces on top floor

JH
Detail of the installation of Lauren Winstone's Silt series that is part of Things the Body Wants to Tell Us at Two Rooms.

Winstone’s Delicately Coloured Table Sculptures

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Lauren Winstone
Things the Body Wants to Tell Us

 


15 March 2024 - 27 April 2024

Possible food servers?

JH
Jae Hoon Lee, Mother and Child, 2024, inkjet on smooth pearl. 1500 x 1500 mm

Looking Through (or At) Jae Hoon Lee

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jae Hoon Lee
Internal Landscape Part II


16 March 2024 -13 April 2024

Two types of digital image


JH
Outside installation of part of Shiraz Sadikeen's The Natural Rate, at Treadler. Photo: Alex North.

Sadikeen @ Treadler

TREADLER

Auckland


Shiraz Sadikeen
The Natural Rate


8 March 2024 - 23 March 2024

 

Complicated semantic layerings

JH
Still from Marcus Coates, The Directors: Lucy (2022) Single channel HD video on loop, projection, 21 min, 24 sec--⁠presented at Yellow Brick Road, courtesy of Artangel.

Attempting to Describe the Experience of Psychosis

Te Tuhi /Auckland Arts Festival

5 inner city sites


Marcus Coates
The Directors


24 February - 24 March 2024

Articulating mental disintegration

JH
Ava Seymour, Manhole, 2023, Maribu solvent screen-printing ink on aluminium, 1120 x 910 mm, unique.

Maternal Appurtenances

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Ava Seymour
Heels of Mothers


14 March - 13 April 2024

Desirably worshipful tootsie-wear