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Kate Newby, What a day., 2013, timber platform, 470 x 3000 x 1095 mm. Installation view: Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland

Kate Newby Installation

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Kate Newby
What a Day.

 

22 May - 29 June 2013

Ceramics and quilt covers

JH
Rebecca Wallis, Found...barely wrapped, 2013, gouache on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm

Wallis’ Compression With Detail

OREXART

Auckland

 

Rebecca Wallis
FOUND…parts

 

28 May - 15 June 2013

Fluidity & acuity

JH
Sarat Maharaj

5th Triennial of Auckland (Discussion 2)

Auckland Art Gallery and nine other venues

Auckland

 

International group exhibition and forums
If you were to live here

 

10 May - 11 August 2013

Exploring the unforeseen


JH
Francis Till, Installation of Stay in Touch at Gloria Knight.

Till’s Enlarged Smartphones

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Francis Till
Stay in Touch

 

23 May - 8 June 2013

Adoration or critique?

JH
Claire Fontaine (France), neon sign in Arabic that translated says 'foreigners everywhere.' This sign is not actually in their main installation in the AAG Mackelvie Gallery. The ones included are in Chinese, French, Korean, Hindi, Samoan and Maori.

5th Triennial of Auckland (Discussion 1)

Auckland Art Gallery and nine other venues

Auckland

 

International group exhibitions and forums
If you were to live here

 

10 May - 11 August 2013

Foreigners Everywhere

JH
Gabrielle de Vietri, CAPTCHA 2010-2.

Bazinga! at Starkwhite

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Nine Australian artists

Bazinga!

 

11 May - 8 June 2013

The joys of obsessiveness


JH
Michael Parekowhai et al., Transitional Housing lots 1-4 for the Department of Native Welfare, Australia 1952, 2013, mixed media instrallation, with an audio recording of Upright Piano by Samuel Holloway

Collaborations at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Parekowhai et al.
In collaboration with Anya Henis and Samuel Holloway

 

18 April - 25 May 2013

Et al.’s games tournament

JH
Leigh Martin: Untitled (SD 4), Untitled (SD6), Untitled (SD 5). All 2013, acrylic on linen and 500 x 450 mm

Evocative Opalescent Martin

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Leigh Martin
Shallow Depth

 

30 April - 8 June 2013

Poured and squeegeed white paint

JH
Bob Van der Wal, Zero Protection (working title), 2013, guard dog, leash, containers of 'Auckland City Council Earth Brown' Acrylic Vivid, unknown liquids, shoe scuffs, pink wood primer, timber.

Van der Wal at Ferari

FERARISPACE

Auckland

 

Bob van der Wal

66 Crummer Rd, Grey Lynn

 

3 May - 4 May 2013

Defending private property


JH
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Revamped Debord

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Heath Schultz
The Society of the Spectacle, 2013

 

10 April - 9 May 2013

Refreshed Situationism

JH
Painting Two: The Thick of It, as installed at Two Rooms. Works by Noel Ivanoff, Alexis Harding, Rohan Wealleans and (again) Alexis Harding. Photo: Jennifer French

Six Painters at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Appel, Beattie, Harding, Ivanoff, Shin, Wealleans
Painting Two: The Thick of It

 

19 April - 18 May 2013

New Zealand, English and American artists

JH
Installation of James Cousins' New Work '13, at Gow Langsford, Lorne St

More Intricate Cousins

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

James Cousins
New Work ‘13

 

17 April -11 May 2013

Darker and more layered


JH
Phil Dadson, Aerial Farm, 2003, video still.

The Friction of Wind and Road

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Dadson / Bradley and Dawe
Aerial Farm / grind every particle

 

4 April - 4 May 2013

Line, texture and sound

JH
Whitney Bedford, This for That, installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Emotional Amplification

STARKWHITE

Auckland

Whitney Bedford
This for That

9 April - 4 May 2013

 

Whitney Bedford’s second show

JH
Ian Jervis at RM, detail. Photo by Finn Ferrier

Jervis Paintings at RM

RM

Auckland

 

Solo show

Ian Jervis

 

4 April - 20 April 2013

A touch of the Symbolist


JH
Mikala Dwyer, Methylated Spiritual, 2012, mixed media, 2600 x 2400 mm

Beyond the Silence of the Room

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Dwyer, Malone, Mitchell, Robinson
Light Sweet Crude

 

12 April - 11 May 2012

Abandoning empiricism

JH
Tony Bond's installation of ceramics at Bath St Gallery.

Bond Ceramic Installation

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony Bond
Clutch

 

2 April - 27 April 2013

Inventive morphologies

JH
Tomislav Nikolic, Muse, 2004-5, 10 parts, acrylic, marble dust and gold pigment. (Apollo on one wall, and on the other: Calliope, Erato, Urania, Clio, Terpischore, Melepomene, Thalia, Euterpe, and Polyhmnia). Each part 70.5 cm x 70.5 cm

Painterly Rims

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Group show
Roeth, Nikolic, Knoebel, Thornley

 

26 March - 28 April 2013

Borders pressuring the centre.


JH
Goldin+Senneby, Merger Prediction Strategy, Goldin+Senneby with Paul Leong (investment banker). Photo: Sam Hartnett

Scrutinising Stockmarket Speculation

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Goldin+Senneby
M&A

 

21 March - 20 April 2013

Searching for the perfect formula

JH
Gavin Hurley's Memexograph at Melanie Roger

Hurley’s Collaged Scroll

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Garvin Hurley
Memexograph

 

13 March - 6 April 2013

Unravelled installation

JH
Heidi Brickell's A Ghost on a Coat Hanger on the Artspace mezzanine. Photo by Sam Harnett.

Painting as Feral Object

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Heidi Brickell
A Ghost on a Coat Hanger

 

21 March - 20 April 2013

Methodical & impassioned installation