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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

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Noel Ivanoff's Slider Paintings upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Noel Ivanoff’s Dark Sliders

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff
Slider Paintings

 

30 January - 28 February 2015

Hinting at the evanescent


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Tiffany Singh's Life is But a Vapour at Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French.

Singh in Titirangi

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Tiffany Singh

Life is But a Vapour

 

11 December 2014 - 15 February 2015

A ‘living wall’.

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Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom, Homeworld, in Gallery 5, top floor, Te Uru. Photo: Jennifer French

Thom and Barry at Te Uru

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titrangi

 

Kathy Barry and Isobel Thom
Homeworld

 

6 December 2014 - 4 February 2015

Contrasting tactilities

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Wystan Curnow reading from The Art Hotel: as a Scene of Reading, at split/fountain as part of Untitled (set up). Photo courtesy of split/fountain and Asumi Mizuo.

Wystan Curnow’s Poetry

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

Wystan Curnow
The Art Hotel: As a Scene for Reading

 

20 December, 3.30 pm

 

The start of a new lyricism?


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Daniel Crooks, An Embroidery of Voids, (still) 2013, single channel video, high definition (HD), sound, 16:9, colour, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2014

Telescopically Structured Chartwell Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Chartwell Collection
A World Undone


8 November 2014 - 6 April 2015

Shrewdly layered collection display

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Shannon Te Ao and Iain Frengley, Untitled (After Rakaihautu) 2012, HD video

Other Waters’ Films

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Looped film screening programme

OTHER WATERS - The Manukau and Beyond


15 November - 24 December 2014 3 January - 15 February 2015

Complex Te Tuhi programme

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Janine Randerson, Until It Runs Out, 2014, super 16 mm film transferred to HD video

Other Waters’ Gallery Displays

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Group show
OTHER WATERS - Art on the Manukau


15 November - 23 December 2014 3 January -15 February 2015

Complex Te Tuhi programme