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JH

Distracted Readership in Auckland

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

distracted-reader #1 

 

distracted-reader #2 

 

Both edited by Allan Smith and Layla Tweedie-Cullen. 

split/fountain 2013

 

New split/fountain publication

JH
Suji Park, Bak, 2012-14, fired clay, wood, self-hardening clay, acrylic, tempera, unfired clay, epoxy, glass flakes, plaster, mica and gold leaf, dimensions variable. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Suji Park’s Chunky, Elongated Aggregate Sculpture

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Suji Park
All There Is

 

1 February - 1 March 2014

Items of delicious ruin

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Lovers as installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Martin Basher as Curator

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Group exhibition

Lovers

 

6 February - 6 March 2014

American / Kiwi mixture


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Shane Cotton, The Haymaker Series, I -V, 2012, at Michael Lett

Cotton in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Shane Cotton

 

29 January - 1 March 2014

Sampler from survey

JH
Oscar Enberg, Thomas Pynchon as 'The Sponsor', 2013 american ash, walnut, sterling silver, oil paint on cast aluminum, chrome, nickel, brass and copper plated steel, cuttlefish wreath 1300 x 1160 x 800mm approx. overall

The Pynchons: Episode Two

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Oscar Enberg
The Pynchons S01E02: Slouching Towards Dignity

 

31 January - 1 March 2014

The Pynchons at Hopkinson Mossman

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transmissionspace: David Clegg projects 2006-2012 - the cover

David Clegg Publication

Transmissionspace: David Clegg projects 2006-12

 

Essays by Huddleston, Burke and Kreisler

 

Pub. by St. Paul St Gallery, AUT, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Compressing geographies


JH
Ann Shelton's doublethink installation at Midhurst

Two Shelton publications

Ann Shelton: doublethink
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, September 2013

Ann Shelton: The City of Gold and Lead
Sarjeant Art Gallery, July 2013

 

Both resulting from her Tylee Cottage residency in Whanganui

Parallel Taranaki exhibition catalogues

JH
The cover of Iteration Again.

Liveness Quadrupled

Iteration Again
Edited by David Cross
Essays by David Cross and Marco Marcon
Plus assorted curatorial briefs and invited responses with illustrations.
Punctum Books, March 2013

Performance Commodified? Without ‘aura’?

JH
The Bold and The Beautiful at Two Rooms: Elizabeth Thomson, The Cascades; Denis O'Connor, The Verbs; Denis O'Connor, The Whisperants; Gretchen Albrecht, Corona (Roseate). Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Adventurous and the Gorgeous

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Seven artists
The Bold and the Beautiful

 

12 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014

Seven artists at Two Rooms


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Rob Gardiner's Here and Now at Two Rooms. Untitled (Nos. 2 - 7), 2013, photograph and paint on glass, 1007 x 1007 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Rob Gardiner Photo/Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Rob Gardiner
The Here and Now

 

13 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014

Exploring space with shallow ‘trays’

JH
Richard McWhannell, Crossing the Lake, 2013, oil on canvas, 463 x 550 mm

Pierrot the Melancholic Painter

OREXART

Auckland

 

Richard McWhannell
Crossing the Lake

 

3 December - 21 December 2013

Maudlin or ironic and cynical?

JH
A detail of the installation of Chiara Corbelletto's Morphic Field at Bath St Gallery.

Corbelletto’s Mesh Sculpture

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chiara Corbelletto
Morphic Field

 

26 November - 21 December 2013

A new direction


JH
Glen Hayward, I don't want you to worry about me. I've met some Beautiful People (detail). Photo: Hamish McLaren

Glen Hayward’s Movie Set

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Glen Hayward
I don’t want you to worry about me. I have met some Beautiful People

 

6 December 2013 - 31 January 2014

The Matrix as footnote

JH
Andrew Kennedy, a hollow action, a room held together by letters, pigment print, harman gloss, baryta 320 320 gsm, oak frames, chip board, aluminium. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Spotlighting Maurice K. Smith

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Andrew Kennedy and Blaine Western
a hollow action, a room held together by letters

 

28 November - 21 December 2013. 14 January - 1 February 2014

Unusual collaboration

JH
Yvonne Todd, Denim Seagull, 2013, HD digital video (ed. 1 of 3, 2 AP),  framed Panasonic 55” LED TV, 130 x 77 x 6 cm

Varied Todd

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Yvonne Todd
Gentle Disco

 

20 November - 21 December 2013

Range of media


JH
Richard Killeen, Images from Image Database, at Ivan Anthony.

Ornamental Hybrids from Killeen’s Database

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Reproductions From Image Database

 

20 November - 21 December 2013

Images on corrugated plastic

JH
Fiona Pardington, Still Life with Colin's Flagon with Precarious Kowhai Flowers and a Pansy, 2013, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 412 x 550 mm

Theatrical Pardington Vanitas Works

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
An Answering Hark: From the McCahon Artist’s Residency 2013

 

8 November - 7 December 2013

From the McCahon Residency

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Dane Mitchell, Rheum (Unconscious Material 4), 2013 inkjet print on cotton paper, frame 820 x 594 mm

Amber from the Psyche

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell
Other Explications

 

22 November - 21 December 2013

Honeyed ocular secretions


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et al., many to many, 2013 (installation detail), roller chairs, signage, metal tubing, sandbags, helium balloons, swiss balls, particle board, original installation in collaboration with Sean Curham one-to-many and many-to-one Khartoum Place 2010.

In Praise of ‘Invention, Forward Thinking and Liberty’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Twenty New Zealand artists

Freedom Farmers

 

26 October 2013 - 23 February 2014

Waving the Utopian flag

JH
Pat Brassington, A Rebours at Te Tuhi. Facing us, Radar, 2009, pigment print. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Brassington in Auckland

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Pat Brassington

Á Rebours

 

9 November 2013 - 9 February 2014

Surrealist photography from Tasmania

JH
Richard Maloy's All the Things I did at Starkwhite

Maloy Revisits Art School

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Richard Maloy
All the things I did

 

4 November - 30 November 2013

Going through his archives