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Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1965-2013, three chromocubicles (fluorescent light with blue, red, and green filters). Courtescy Cruz-Diez Foundation. Photo: John  McIvor

Let There Be Light” (Twenty Times Over)

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
Light Show

 

11 October 2014 - 8 February 2015

Touring Hayward show

JH
Kerry Ann Lee, Blue Monday, 2014, framed digital lambda print, 72 x 64 x 3 cm

Kerry Ann Lee’s Lambda Prints

WHITESPACE

Auckland

 

Kerry Ann Lee
I Have Always Been Here Before

 

28 October - 15 November 2014

Consumerist critique in Pop Arty style

JH

Recent Bambury

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Stephen Bambury
“play it again, sam”

 

6 October - 28 November 2014

Exploring chemical traces


JH
Alberto Garcia-Alvarez's Crossings as installed at Tim Melville. Photo: Kallan MacLeod

Garcia-Alvarez’s Crossings

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alberto Garcia-Alvarez
Crossings

 

4 October - 1 November 2014

Assorted painted wooden reliefs

JH
Richard Killeen, Masfly, 2014, UV inkjet on ACM, 420 x 594 mm

Triple Killeens

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Three Random Reproductions

 

4 October - 25 October 2014

Chance hybrids

JH
Patrick Lundberg, No title, 2014, gesso, acrylic and varnish on air-dried clay. Dimensions variable, 11 parts. Seen here in the eastern room.

Compositionally Provisional Lundberg

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Patrick Lundberg
No Future Probable

 

4 October - 25 October 2014

Dispersed cylinder paintings


JH
Kristy Gorman's Make Shift exhibition at Jonathan Smart Gallery

Exquisite, Subtly Tremulous Gorman

JONATHAN SMART GALLERY

Christchurch

 

Kristy Gorman
Make Shift

 

30 September - 25 October 2014

Restrained but vibrant paintings

JH
Susan Norrie's Transit, as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Susan Norrie Film

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Susan Norrie
Transit

 

26 September - 25 October 2014

Avoiding planetary disaster

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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?


JH
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

JH
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


JH

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

JH
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