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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

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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

JH
The cover of the Layla Rudneva-Mackay publication, Green with Envy, designed by Warren Olds

Rudneva-Mackay Publication

STARKWHITE

Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Green with Envy
Essays by Porter, Bywater, O’Reilly, Rudneva-MacKay, and Forester.
Editor: Gwynneth Porter
Published by Starkwhite and Clouds, 2012

Disappointing texts


JH

Perkins at Hopkinson Cundy

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Oliver Perkins
Instruments

 

8 March - 6 April 2013

Compelling installation

JH
Blaine Western's The Fold of The Land, as installed at Te Tuhi. Note the concrete blocks on the left. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Blaine Western at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Blaine Western
The Fold of the Land

 

9 March - 30 April 2013

Considering John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre

JH
The installation of Hany Armanious' Set Down exhibition at Michael Lett

Armanious’ Cast ‘Readymades’

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Hany Armanious
Set Down

 

6 March - 13 April 2013

Polyurethane resin duplicates


JH
Santiago Sierra, Destroyed Word, 2012.  10 channel video installation at Te Tuhi. Image: Sam Hartnett

Eradicating Capitalism’s Name

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Santiago Sierra

Destroyed Word

 

9 March - 14 July 2013

 

Searching for an economic alternative

JH
Louise Menzies, Local Edition, limited edition artist's book. 16 folded posters, various Inkjet on newsprint

Looking at Newspaper Nameplates

Published by DDMMYY and The Physics Room

Louise Menzies
Local Edition
Produced and Designed by Kelvin Soh and Sam Wieck

Global newsprint media

JH
Nathan Pohio, Spyglass Field Recordings Vol.3: Notes towards accessing material from the universe and de-briefing an agent of inner space, 2011, wall mounted monitors with headphones.

Three Male Maori Videomakers

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Group show
Te Hiko Hou

 

20 February - 28 March 2013

Curated by Gillam & Hansen