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Andrew Drummond's Consequences of Action at Antoinette Godkin

Andrew Drummond in Auckland

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Andrew Drummond
Consequences of Action

 

23 September - 16 October 2014

Characteristic ecological symbolism

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Rebecca Baumann's Once More With Feeling at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Baumann’s Light Show

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Rebecca Baumann
Once More With Feeling

 

20 September - 18 October 2014

Vertical bands of refracted colour

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Still from Nicolas Kozakis & Raoul Vaneigem, A Moment of Eternity in the Passage of Time, 2012, digital video

Cutting Loose From Chronology

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

International group show
Unstuck In Time

2 August - 26 October 2014

Varieties of time


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Joyce Campbell, Golden Hour, 2014, pigment ink on Hahnemuhle Cotton Rag 308 gsm, 790 x 950 mm

Unnerving Campbell

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
To the Wash

 

22 August - 20 September 2014

Desert interiority

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Peter Stichbury, Ray Bowyer, 2014, coloured pencil on paper, 42 x 35 cm

Melancholic Stichbury

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Peter Stichbury
Sources and Methods

 

6 August - 6 September 2014

Pensive masculinity

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Signals as installed at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Auckland’s Changing Constituency

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Group show
Signals

 

11 August - 6 September 2014

The role of local Asian culture


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Installation of Miranda Parkes' Go-getter at Antoinette Godkin

Small Parkes Paintings

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Miranda Parkes
Go Getter

 

16 August - 13 September 2014

Deliciously diminutive?

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Don Driver, Duraband 10, 1988, mixed media, plastic webbing on plastic, 1300 x 2160 x 200 mm. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Silent But Engaging Conversations

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Barber, Connor, Driver, Keating, Perkins
When I Paint My Masterpiece

 

9 August - 6 September 2014

Lively group show

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Peter Madden, She Has More Past than Most, 2013,  mixed media collage,  950mm x 750mm

Madden’s Use of the Diminutive

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Madden
Behind the line of care

 

6 August - 6 September 2014

Exploring black and white collage


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Melissa Coote, Heart A, 2014, bronze unique, 80 x 85 x 105 mm

Coote’s ‘Hearts’ at Fox-Jensen

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Melissa Coote
Painting, sculpture, paper

 

15 July - 16 August 2014

Shiny, glowing bronzes and dark photogravures

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Pondering The Walters Prize 2014

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Simon Denny, Maddie Leach, Luke Willis Thompson, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila
The Walters Prize

 

12 July - 12 October 2014

Complex and Provocative

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On far wall: Popular Productions, A60020.3004, untitled (great, beautiful, wonderful, 1993, bilboard, digital image on vinyl, tape, 340 x 640 cm

Virtuoso Critiques of Mastery

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Works from The Estate of L. Budd & Popular Productions

 

2 July - 2 August 2014

L. Budd and Popular Productions


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Sam Harrison, Two Women 1, 2009, woodcut on Fabriano paper. Courtesy of Fox /Jensen Gallery

Harrison Woodcuts

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Sam Harrison
the kindest cut

 

4 July - 30 August 2014

Seven meditations on nakedness

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Grant Stevens' twin channel video, With Our Thoughts We Make the World, at Starkwhite

Grant Stevens in Auckland

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Grant Stevens
Hold Together, Fall Apart

 

7 July - 2 August 2014

Three video works

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Ayse Erkmen, Inform, 2014, silver-plated metal, 100 x 4780 mm overall. Installation dimensions vary.

Buchanan and Erkmen

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Ruth Buchanan / Ayşe Erkmen

 

5 July - 2 August, 2014

Very shrewd juxtapostions


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Phil Dadson, Arid Edge (Atacama), 2014, single channel digital video, duration 7.09 min

Richly Layered Phil Dadson Survey

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Parallel Harmonies

 

27 June - 25 July, 2014

Exhilarating videos

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Paul Hartigan, Mimic, 1998, pigment on vinyl, 1220 x 1220 mm

Hartigan’s Infinity Reprise

PIERRE PEETERS GALLERY

Auckland

 

Paul Hartigan
The Infinities

 

12 June -12 July 2014

More recent higher definition

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Joe Sheehan's Screenshots at Tim Melville

Joe Sheehan’s Mysterious Photographs

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Joe Sheehan
Screenshots

 

3 June - 28 June 2014

Gaseous and ethereal minerality


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Boyd Webb, Auburn, 2014, giclee print on Innova Fibaprint Semi-Matte 300gsm, 970 x 970 mm

Boyd Webb at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Boyd Webb
Images from the Cusp

 

6 June - 12 July 2014

Ambiguous images

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Suzie Gorodi, Corridor Series, 2014, digital video and audio, 9.20 mins

Unusual Gorodi Exhibition

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Suzie Gorodi
PhD examination show

 

30 May - 6 June 2014

Filming being filmed

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Installation of Flora Photographica Aotearoa at Deport Artspace in Devonport

Botanical Photographs

DEPOT ARTSPACE

Auckland

 

Group show
Flora Photographica Aotearoa


24 May - 12 June 2014

Devonport presentation