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Sam Harrison's sculpture installed at Fox Jensen

Sam Harrison Works

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Sam Harrison
New Sculpture & Woodcuts

 

2 October - 10 November 2010

Statues and prints

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Judy Darragh, Sissy Squat, 2012, PVC banner, acrylic, ink and paint, linen tape, glass spheres, assorted aerosol paint.  1.5 x 2.4 m. Courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms, Auckland   Photo by Sam Hartnett

Darragh’s Modified Banners

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Judy Darragh
SCI FI

 

26 October - 24 November 2012

Another look

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A still from Olga Chernysheva's The Train, 2003, B&W, single channel video, 7.30 minutes, image courtesy of the artist.

Imagined Worlds

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

International group show
Lost in a Dream

 

19 October - 3 November 2012

Eyes Wide Shut


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Seung Yul Oh's Huggong at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Seung Yul Oh’s Starkwhite Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland


Seung Yul Oh
Huggong


23 October - 17 November 2012

Huge balloons cram into space

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Alexi Willemsen, Head of Hair, 2012, oil on board, 295 x 395 mm

Painting Evanescent Light and the Human form

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alexi Willemsen
image of light, adieu

 

3 October - 27 October 2012

Pondering Impressionism

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Nicholas Mangan, A World Undone, 2012, HD film (colour, silent), 12 min. loop.

Spectacular Celebration of Geological Time

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nicholas Mangan
A World Undone

 

19 October - 17 November 2012

This quiet dust


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Steve Carr, Aona, 2010, HD video transferred to DVD, 26 min 4 sec. Detail

Five Diverse Videos at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Group show
Steve Carr, Len Lye and Campbell Patterson

 

22 September - 27 October 2012

Clever placements and selection

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Kate Newby

The Walters Prize Winner for 2012

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Mami Kataoka

The Walters Prize dinner speech

 

20 October, 8.00pm

Mami Kataoka’s decision

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David Clegg, transmissionspace and the index of atmospheres at St Paul St Gallery Two. Image courtesy of the artist.

Merging Documentation with Memory

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

David Clegg
transmissionspace and the index of atmospheres

 

21 September - 26 October 2012

Bringing Europe to Aotearoa


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Fiona Pardington, EREWHON: Left for Dead in the Field of Dreams, downstairs at Two Rooms. Image by Jennifer French

Ambiguous Portraits

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
EREWHON: Left for Dead in the Field of Dreams

 

21 September - 20 October 2012

Choreographed sequence of images

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Fiona Pardington,  Still Life with My Mother's Camellia and Mokohinau Black, Coral 2011, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

Pardington Vanitas Works

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Metaphysical Landscapes

 

21 September - 20 October 2012

 

Steeped in historic painting

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Zhoe Granger, Asymmetrical Mall Cut, video installation at FrontBox. Detail. Image courtesy of the artist.

FrontBox Installation

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Zhoe Granger
Asymmetrical Mall Cut

 

15 September - 26 October 2012

Post-structuralist investigation


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Anna Franceschini, It's about Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau), 2011, 16 mm film, colour-mute, 2' 40". Image by Alessandro Di Giampietro

Franceschini Films

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Anna Franceschini
HALATION

 

1 September - 26 October 2012

Calculated and random light

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Ruth Watson's From White Darkness at Hagley Park Ice Station. Photo courtesy of the artist

Comparing Art with Science

Hagley Park Ice Station

Christchurch

 

Ruth Watson
From White Darkness

 

14 September - 14 October 2012

Antarctica as speculation

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Saul Steinberg,  THE NEW YORKER. NEW YORK, 1945-2000 (HAROLD, WILLIAM, ROBERT, TINA, DAVID, EDS.)  At Artspace. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Saul Steinberg’s New Yorker Drawings

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Saul Steinberg
THE NEW YORKER. NEW YORK, 1945-2000 (HAROLD, WILLIAM, ROBERT, TINA, DAVIDEDS.)


7 September - 6 October 2012

109 issues on bench tops


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John Smith, Girl Chewing Gum, 1976, 16 mm transferred to HD video, 12 mins,B&W, sound. Courtesy of the artist and LUX, London. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Fascinating Seventies Film

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

John Smith
Girl Chewing Gum

 

7 September - 6 October 2012

Unusual sound/image synchronisation

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Jason Greig, Snakes for the Divine, 2012, monoprint,  76 x 56 cm

Greig Monoprints

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jason Greig
L’Organe du Diable

 

12 September - 29 September 2012

Horror with sensitivity

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David Cauchi, No Self Portrait, 2012, acrylic and ink on canvas, 35 x 30 cm

David Cauchi Paintings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

David Cauchi
Abstractions

 

12 September - 29 September 2012

Lugubrious but droll cartoons


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Ralph Paine, Tiepolo (Venetian red), 2012, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper. Photo: Daniel Webby

Webby / Paine / Clement

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Daniel Webby, Ralph Paine, Ben Clement
Ltd

 

4 September - 15 September 2012

Unusual triple combination

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Richard Stratton, Wellington Whieldon, 2012.

Stratton Ceramics

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Stratton
Structures of Stricture

 

29 August - 22 September 2012

More restrained teapots

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Yona Lee at Artspace, upstairs in the mezzanine. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Yona Lee Installations

Artspace and Te Tuhi

Auckland

Yona Lee

Yona Lee in Artspace’s mezzanine space
7 September - 6 October 2012
Composition at Te Tuhi’s Drawing Wall
18 August - 10 February 2013

Two sites in Auckland