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JH
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Withdrawn at the Request of Sue Crockford Gallery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

JH
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

JH
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


JH

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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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?


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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