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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
In foreground, Denise Ziegler, Mecki the Traveller, 2024, photographic print, plywood. Photo: John Hurrell

‘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

JH
Installation shot of Michael Morley's exhibition, After the War, at Sumer

In Spite of the World

SUMER

Auckland

 

Michael Morley
After the War


6 March 2024 - 6 April 2024

Embracing pleasure

JH
P.R., Te Atakura, 2024; C.P., Vierkantrohre Serie DW, 1967; P.R., Easy Action Painting, 2023; P.R., Ki Uta Ki Tai, 2024; P.R., Driftwood 1, 2023.

Priorities’ Sculptures: Ineffective Due to Metaphor?

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Tamaki Makaurau

 

Charlotte Posenenske & Peter Robinson
Priorities


10 February - 6 April 2024

 

Tropes permitted or blocked by Davidson?

JH
Installation view of Hugo Koha Lindsay's exhibition, The Plimsoll Line, at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Layered Meanings

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Hugo Koha Lindsay
The Plimsoll Line


14 February - 9 March 2024

Clever interpretative possibilities

JH
Installation view of Julian Hooper's exhibition, Talking Pit, at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Speaking in Tongues

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Julian Hooper
Talking Pit



10 February - 9 March 2024

Meanings that compete

JH
The installation of Ken Friedman's 92 Events at Ngutu Kākā, in Gallery One. Photo: Stephen Cleland

Friedman Survey

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Ken Friedman
92 Events


8 December - 28 March 2024

Is a gallery necessary?

JH
Installation view of Patrick Lundberg's exhibition, eybodey, at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Lundberg Still Surprises

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau

 

Patrick Lundberg
Eybodey

 


10 February - 9 March 2024

Paintings and sculpture

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