Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to EyeContact. You are invited to respond to reviews and contribute to discussion by registering to participate.

 

JH
Jeena Shin, Motus, 2014, detail, Herald Theatre. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Jeena Shin’s Two Auckland Murals

The Herald Theatre (50 Mayoral Drive) & Peach Pitt (352 Karangahape Rd)

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin

 

Murals in Aotea Centre and K’Rd diner

Pulsing geometry in theatre and cafe

JH
Mateo Tannatt, Crowd Crown/Plaza 2, 2014, painted cast aluminium, powder coated steel, 110 x 710 x 450 mm

Five Person Show at Hopkinson Mossman

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Austin, Culbert, Culbert, Newby, Tannatt
Portmanteaux

 

13 March - 5 April 2014

Merging words, blending art

JH
Rob McLeod, Planet Edward, 2012, oil on marine ply, 2.2 x 2.2 m

Rob McLeod’s Facial Conglomerates

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rob McLeod
The Planetheads

 

11 March - 5 April 2014

Clusters of diverse physiognomy


JH
Tim Webby and Daniel Webby, Window Onsite, detail, at Window, University of Auckland Library. Photo: Sam Hartnett

It’s A Taped Up, Weighed Down, Frog Infested World

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Daniel Webby and Tim Webby
Window onsite

 

4 March - 29 March 2014

The two Webbys

JH
Andrew Kennedy, Structure #3, 2014, pigment print, Enhanced Matte 189 gsm, dibond, 280 mm x 180 mm

Full Fathom Four

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Richard Frater and Andrew Kennedy
Fathoms

 

18 March - 5 April 2014

Two artist installation

JH
Peter Friedl, The Dramatist (Black Hamlet, Crazy Henry, Guilia, Toussaint), 2013, wood, metal, fabric, leather, glass, hair, straw, oil paint, nylon strings. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Guido Costa Projects, Turin. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Peter Friedl at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Peter Friedl
The Dramatist

 

1 March - 17 April 2014

The benefits of play


JH
Deborah Crowe, Scape VI, 2013, digital print on Hahnemuhle paper. Photo: Crowe

Complex and Intricate Crowe

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Deborah Crowe
Scape

 

7 March - 29 March 2014

Dense digital collages

JH
Suji Park, BUK 330-399 I, II, III, 2014 detail. Photo: Chelsea Rothbart

Every Dream Home a Heart-Ache

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Suji Park, Cornelia Parker, Jun Yang
Things Beyond Our Control


14 February - 21 March 2014

Exploring real and imagined memory

JH

Sonic Delights on an Island Sanctuary

Tiritiri Matangi

 

25-30 musicians and rare NZ wildlife

Sounding Tiritiri Matangi


8 March, 2014

Extraordinary music and birdsong


JH
Kristy Gorman's Holding Still as installed at Melanie Roger

Delicate Planar Explorations

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Kristy Gorman
Holding Still

 

12 February - 8 March 2014

Kristy Gorman abstractions

JH
g. bridle, Installation of the Retreat 2008-2014 at St Paul Street's Gallery Two. Photo: Chelsea Rothbart

the characteristically enigmatic mr. bridle

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

g. bridle

the Retreat 2008 - 2014


14 February - 21 March 2014

A supremely urbane display

JH
David Svensson: Never Trust the Teller, Trust the Tale, 2010; Inner Light (Absent Image), 2014. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Swedish Art in Up and Downtown Auckland

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

David Svensson
Efterord

 

27 February - 5 April 2014

Two Svensson presentations


JH
Johl Dwyer's Icicles installed at Tim Melville Gallery. Photo: Kallan MacLeod

Dwyer in Newmarket

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Johl Dwyer
Icicles

 

4 February - 1 March 2014

Methods of painting construction

JH
Imi Knoebel: AAMIII, 2013, and LOLLOO, 2013. Both hand-coloured acrylic on paer, edition of 5 of 5. Both 61.5 x 92 cm

Imi Knoebel in Auckland

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Imi Knoebel
Paperworks

 

4 February - 16 March 2014

Exploring thin paint on paper

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

JH
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

JH
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

JH
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