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Jannides Exhibition

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Milli Jannides
As the Light Dips

 

23 May - 28 June 2014

Varied array of ambiguous images

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Barbara Tuck, Long Rain, 1999, oil on canvas, 508 x 405 mm

Lushly Patterned Tuck

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Barbara Tuck
Iris Gate

 

7 May - 31 May, 2014

Tentative explorations

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Installation of RE:VISION at Trish Clark Gallery. On the left, Alfredo Jaar's Tonight No Poetry Will Serve; on the right, Marina Abramovic's Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, 1975; publ. 1994, black and white photograph with text panel

Trish Clark’s Inaugural Exhibition

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

International group show
RE:VISION

 

13 April - 10 June 2014

New Auckland gallery


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Installation at Two Rooms of Noel McKenna's Second 14 Days in Auckland, 2014, watercolour on paper, variable. Photo: Jennifer French

Noel McKenna’s Residency Show

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel McKenna
A Walk from One Tree Hill to Half Moon Bay

 

2 May - 31 May 2014

Panel paintings and watercolour diaries

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Simon Ingram's Radiographs in his Radio Painting Station in Jar.

Fourth Jar Show

JAR

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
Radio Painting Station

 

18 November, 2013 - 18 November, 2014

Added aerial and power source

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Alchemical Encoder or Formalist?

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Milan Mrkusich

Seven Colour Alchemical Spectrum 

 

5 May - 30 May 2009

I think Mrkusich is a formalist, despite his denial of that in various catalogues over the years. He is a formalist to be much admired. You don’t need to grasp the early history of science and philosophy to appreciate the elegance and contemplative serenity of these works. The symbolic content is a footnote, not the main essay..


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BIK van der Pol, Facts on the Ground, 2010, video still, single channel video, courtesy of the artists

Political / Climate Change

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Group show
The Maldives Exodus Caravan show

 

8 March - 13 July 2014

The Maldives situation

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James Beckett, Dowsing Schools: Preliminary Findings and Corresponding Survey Kit - as installed at Artspace, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

A Leap of Faith (?)

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

James Beckett
Dowsing Schools: Preliminary Findings and Corresponding Survey Kit

 

2 May - 28 June 2014

Dowsing Diorama

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Billy Apple’s Genome

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Billy Apple and Craig Hilton
The Analysis of Billy Apple®

 

7 May 2014, 6 - 9pm

Projected circular chromosome map.


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Selina Foote, Untitled, oil on canvas, 450 x 350 mm

Selina Foote Exhibition

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Selina Foote
ray

 

2 May - 31 May 2014

Grids of suspended fragments

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Jess Johnson's Ratholes in the Babylon of Information as installed at Ivan Anthony

Jess Johnson Drawings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jess Johnson
Ratholes in the Babylon of Information

 

30 April - 30 May 2014

Impressively synthesised eclecticism

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Becky Nunes, Billboard project, middle panel

Mt Wellington Crater

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Becky Nunes
Billboard project

 

8 March - 13 July 2014

The sensuality of grey


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g.bridle, bec de lievre, 2014, photographic print, 1200 x 2060 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

bridle at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

g. bridle
the Retreat: Flight Forward

 

2 May - 28 June 2014

Duchampian theme

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Art and Social Change Research Group: Delhi Residency, 2013, at Te Tuhi. Ravi Agarwal is onscreen on the left, and Shuddahabrata Sengupta is on the right. Photo by Sam Hartnett   Courtesy of Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand

Interviews from Delhi in Auckland

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

Interviews with assorted artists
Art and Social Change Research Group: Delhi Residency, 2013

12 April -13 July 2014

Six Indian activist artists

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Peter Roche, Futures & Ruins, as installed in The Biz Dojo, Suite 108, Ironbank

Roche in the Ironbank

Ironbank, 150 Karangahape Road

Auckland

 

Peter Roche
Futures and Ruins

 

30 April - 2 May 2014

Unusually benign installation


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Martyn Reynolds, Vienetta shoes table, digital print on cast aluminium, 450 x 280 x 580 mm

Martyn Reynolds at Gloria Knight

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Martyn Reynolds
Non secateUr

 

17 April -2 May 2014

Twenty-five shows on

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Gavin Hipkins, The Port, in St Paul St Gallery Two. Photo: Tosh Ahkit

Hipkins Film

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins
The Port

 

4 April - 17 May 2014

Back to sensuality

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John Ward Knox's Breathing After Thinking at Ivan Anthony.

Ward Knox’s Silk Works

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
Breathing After Thinking

 

9 April - 26 April 2014

More oil paint drawings


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Cerith Wyn Evans' Transmit/receive as installed at Michael Lett. In the foreground, receptacles for revolutionary reverie, 2011 (plants, rotating platforms). In the distance, cite/sight/site, 2014, chandelier, independent breather unit, flash player.

Cerith Wyn Evans Shows

Michael Lett / Hopkinson Mossman

Auckland

 

Cerith Wyn Evans
transmit/receive

 

11 April - 10 May 2014

Simultaneous presentations

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Tony Albert, Girramay people, QLD, Sorry, found kitsch objects applied to vinyl letters, 99 objects, 200 x 510 x 10 cm installed. The James C. Sourris,AM, Collection, Purchaed 2008 with funds from James C Sourris through the QAG Foundation

Songs of Love and Hate

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

 

Aboriginal art from QAG/GOMA

My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

 


28 March - 20 July 2014

Confronting Australia’s past (and present)

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Christopher LG Hill and Joshua Petherick, Timeout, 2013, detail, newspaper, wood, used clothing, wig. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Critiquing Acquisitiveness

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Carpet Burn

 

22 March - 3 May 2014

Richly varied group show