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Johl Dwyer's Interior as installed at Tim Melville.

Dwyer Sculpture and Painting

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Johl Dwyer
Interior

 

26 May - 13 June 20015

Solidity versus ethereality

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Elizabeth Thomson's Body of the Sentient as installed at Two Rooms

Elizabeth Thomson’s Watery Contradictions

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Elizabeth Thomson
Body of the Sentient

 

29 May - 4 July 2015

Exploring ambiguous liquid spaces

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Anne Noble, Dead Bee Portrait #6, 2015, pigment print on archival paper, 915 x 1165 mm

To Bee or Not To Bee

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Anne Noble
No Vertical Song

 

29 May - 4 July 2015

Detailed studies of insect corpses


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Coen Young, Studies for a Mirror #10 - #13  acrylic, marble dust, enamel and silver nitrate on paper, all 2125 x 1225 mm

Optically Volatile Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Coen Young
Studies for a Mirror (MAY)

 

23 May - 21 June 2015

Coen Young ‘mirrors’

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Installation of Julian Dashper paintings and drawings at Michael Lett

Dashper Drawings, Paintings and Slide Sets

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Posthumous solo show
Julian Dashper

 

20 May - 20 June 2015

Impulse and deliberation

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Jae Hoon Lee, Castle Rock, 2015, Lightjet print on archival paper, 2100 x 1500 mm (framed)

Jae Hoon Lee’s Digital Explorations

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jae Hoon Lee
Omnipresent

 

20 May - 20 June 2015

Two varieties of image


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Perkins’ Innovative Stretchers

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Oliver Perkins
Armatures

 

15 May - 20 June 2015

His second Hopkinson Mossman show

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Billy Apple, Frieze (Red), 2005, acrylic on canvas, 800 x 1800 mm. Image courtesy of Gow Langsford in association with Starkwhite

Billy Apple Frieze (A Section)

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Billy Apple
Withdrawn at the Request of Sue Crockford Gallery

 

27 May - 20 June 2015

Future mural design

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David Cowlard, Great South Road, 2014, HD video, stereo soundtrack, 6.00 mins

Human Habitation on the Auckland Landscape

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Papakura

 

Group show
Lay of the Land


2 May - 13 June 2015

Housing issues as subtext


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Anton Parsons: On and on and on, 2015; Whiteware, 2015; Timber, 2015; Life is Short, 2015

Four Auckland Sculptors

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Anton Parsons, Kevin Osmond, Louise Purvis, Chiara Corbelletto
Matter

 

7 May - 6 June 2015

Unusual combination

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The Anxieties of Imagined Surveillance

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International Group Show
Poetry in Motion: Imaginary Audience Scale


27 March - 23 May 2015

On art audience/curator behaviour modifications

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Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015, multi-channel video, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of Auckland Art Gallery. Photo: Jennifer French

Reihana’s Infected Pursuit of Venus

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Lisa Reihana
in Pursuit of Venus (infected)

 

2 May - 30 August 2015

Post-colonial critique as video panorama


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Glen Snow, Prom Queen, 2013-14, acrylic, Builders' Fill, pigment, wood, 280 x 270 mm

Glen Snow at Godkin

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Glen Snow
Fat yellow

 

21 April - 23 May 2015

Larger and more viscous now

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Installation of Natalie Guy's Decoy at Fox Jensen

Natalie Guy Sculpture

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Natalie Guy
Decoy

 

23 April - 23 May 2015

Examining modernism

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Seung Yul Oh's OnDo, outside Ballantyne Square. Photo: Patrick Reynolds

Seung Yul Oh’s Dominion Rd Sculpture

Auckland Public Art

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
OnDo

 

Presented for a few months only

Local in situ referencing


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Simon Ingram's Paintings of the Sun, as installed at Gow Langsford

Ingram’s Latest Radio Paintings

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
Paintings of the Sun

 

29 April - 23 May 2015

A shifting examination of manuality?

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Installation of Billy Apple's Gallery Abstracts 2011 - 2015, at Melanie Roger Gallery

Three Pairs of Apple Abstractions

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Billy Apple
Gallery Abstracts 2011 - 2015

 

22 April - 2 May 2014

Intricate examination of gallery alignments

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Steve Carr, Watermelon, 2015, Sony HD XCam, duration 33 mins 9 secs

Carr / Cheshire Installation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Steve Carr
The Science of Ecstasy and Immortality

 

16 April - 16 May 2015

Contrasts in time and motion


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Bill Culbert, Lightline 6, two coat hooks, fluorescent tube, wiring.

Bill Culbert in Auckland

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland


Bill Culbert
Straits / Lightline

 

10 April - 9 May 2015

His first Hopkinson Mossman show

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Installation of Heather Straka's Somebodies Eyes at Trish Clark Gallery. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Straka at Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Heather Straka
Somebodies Eyes

 

1 April - 15 May 2015

Front to back

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Bryn Roberts' Why can't we eat the sun? Te Tuhi billboards on Reeves Road

Nutrient Evangelicalism or Ironic Demurral?

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Bryn Roberts
Why Can’t We Eat the Sun?

 

7 March - 12 July 2015

Examining interpretative possibilities