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Bruce Barber, documentation of Mt Eden Crater Performance (detail) at Michael Lett

Bruce Barber Documentation of ’73 work

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Bruce Barber
Mount Eden Crater Performance

 

4 March - 2 April 2015

Lett basement presentation

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Billy Apple®: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else exhibition (installation view), 2015, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Billy Apple® Retrospective

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Billy Apple®
The artist has to live like everybody else

14 March - 21 June 2015

Christina Barton curation

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Greatest Hits, Untitled, 2012, digital video file (QuickTime mov.), 9:24 mins looped. Courtesy of the artists and Tristian Koening, Melbourne

Four Australian Videos

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Nicholas Mangan, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Joshua Petherick and Greatest Hits
Creative Suite


7 March - 12 July 2015

Andrea Bell curation


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Ignas Krunglevičius, Interrogation, as installed at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Interrogating the Interrogators

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Ignas Krunglevičius
Interrogation

 

7 March - 12 July 2015

Scrutinising techniques of persuasion

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Dan Arps, on floor, Studio Units with Double Hamper, 2015, folding trestle tables with mixed media sculptures, dimensions variable

Arps Floor and Wall Pieces

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Dan Arps
Plastic Mouthfeel II

 

4 March - 5 April 2015

Looking at duplication

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Jessica Pearless' Project Wall at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Jessica Pearless Wall Painting

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Jessica Pearless
Field

 

7 March - 10 May 2015

Taut edges and piercing corners


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John Ward Knox, Idyll, framed reproduction with snail shell

Unstable Ward Knox

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
Unstable Situations

 

4 March - 28 March 2015

Teasing with interpretation

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Dieneke Jansen, G.I. Areas A & B, hoardings at 68 Beach Rd, CBD, Auckland

State Housing in Glen Innes

Offsite Te Tuhi @ 68 Beach Rd, CBD

Auckland

 

Dieneke Jansen
G.I. Areas A & B

 

7 March - 29 March 2015

Photographs installed outdoors downtown

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Billy Apple: in foreground, Suck, 1961/2014, detail, automotive paint on steel tubing; on far wall, Body Works, NYC, 1965, silver bromide emulsion on Argenta photo-linen. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Billy Apple at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Billy Apple®
Suck

 

6 March - 20 March 2015

The power of the body


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Tony Green, Tubular Poems: Words Without Song, at Audio Foundation. Detail.

Tony Green’s Tubular Poems

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Tony Green
Tubular Poems - Words Without Song

 

5 March - 18 March 2015

Analysing the Mechanics of Reading

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Renee So, Legs, 2015, knitted wool, acrylic, framed, 130 x 190 cm

Overlapping Heads

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Runa Islam, David Noonan, Renee So
Busts

 

6 March - 4 April 2015

Unusual trio of artists

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David Shrigley, Untitled (sun, moon, plants), 2015, oil on canvas, 1600 x 1200 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

David Shrigley the Painter

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

David Shrigley
Oil Paintings

 

6 March - 18 April 2015

The Two Rooms residency


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Meiro Koizumi, Death Poem for a City (2013), two channel video installation. Duration: 21 minutes 45 seconds

Contemporary Japanese Show

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Meiro Koizumi, Erika Kobayashi, Hiroharu Mori, Yoshinari Nishio, Nobuko Tsuchiya, Masahiro Wada.
Invisible Energy

20 February - 27 March 2015

Inspired by ‘Mediarena’

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Judy Millar, The Model World, Gallery Four, top floor, Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French

Judy Millar Shows

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Auckland

Judy Millar

The Model World

13 February - 5 April 2015

 

Gow Langsford

Proof of Heaven
4 March - 28 March 2015

Installations, exhibition and book

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n the lefthand wall, Irena Keckes, Black Print # 12, 2015, woodblock print on cotton, 5100 x 2580 mm. On the floor: Irena Keckes   Black Print #12 (plates), 2015, wood carved plates / sculptural object, 4880 x 2420 mm

Dialogue Through Markmaking

FO GUANG YUAN ART GALLERY

Auckland

 

Irena Keckes and Nim Flora Chan
Dialogues & Evocations

 

8 February - 31 March 2014

Exhibiting in a Buddhist Temple


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Anthony McCall, Face to Face 1V, 2013, computer, two video projections, two haze machines, Quick Time movie film. Photo: Robin Murphy

Anthony McCall at Trish Clark

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Anthony McCall
Face to Face

 

27 January - 25 March 2015

Two horizontal cones

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Immune and Implicated at Lett, l-r:John Reynolds, The Cause of the Movement of the Heart, 1992; Grant Lingard, Swan Song, 1995-2015; Alex Vivian, An Approach to Portraiture (Travis Fimmel), 2011; Richard Killeen. Burial Mound, 1992

AIDS and Gay Pride in 2015.

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Implicated and Immune

 

28 January - 28 February 2015

Gay self-esteem and coital safety

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The Bleary Bedazzled Drive to Acquire

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Martin Basher
Jizzy Velvet

 

3 February - 7 March 2015

Basher’s cardboard collages accentuated


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Daniel Malone, On the Use of Irony, 2015, oil on canvas, hemp roe, copper nail, 230 x 325 mm

Daniel Malone’s Titirangi Paintings

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Daniel Malone
I & I

 

29 January - 28 February 2015

Saluting McCahon

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Engrossing Allen Interviews

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jim Allen
The Skin of Years: Interviews with Jim Allen by Phil Dadson and Tony Green

Clouds and Michael Lett, 2014

Art, history and art history

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David Thomas, When Two Directions Become All Directions (L to R: Green Over Grey Yellow; Golden Yellow; Green; Black; Grey), 2012-14, acrylic on linen and dibond. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Painting and Pleasure

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Group show of paintings
The Smoothing of Things


30 January - 28 February 2015

A mini-survey