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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

JH
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

JH
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

JH
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

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James Harrison as Len Lye with Anna Pierard as Ann (Len’s second wife) and Daniel Sewell (front) playing Len as a a boy.

Operatic Conundrum

Maidment Theatre

Auckland

 

Len Lye the Opera
Individual Happiness Now

 

5 September - 8 September 2012

Valiant failure?

JH
Installation of Gavin Hipkins' Second Pavillion at Starkwhite. Photos by Sam Hartnett.

Two Hipkins Shows

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins
Second Pavilion

 

15 August - 8 September 2012

Fritsch collaboration

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et al., trans-cryption (detail), 2011, 16 mm film converted to digital, metal trays with speakers. Dimensions variable.

Inter-planetary Art Mysticism

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Letter from Alice May Williams

 

11 August - 15 September 2012

Lett’s fairytale art cave

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Michael Harrison, Late Arrival, acrylic on canvas

Harrison’s Adolescent Angst

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Michael Harrison
Venus in the Tenth House

 

15 August - 8 September 2012

Searching for a Path through the Forest of Life

JH
Kushana Bush, Tucked In, 2012, gouache and pencil on paper, 75 x 55cm

Bush Images

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Kushana Bush
Omens

 

15 August - 8 September 2012

Inventive and suggestive compositions.

JH
Poster made from a still from Sean Grattan's HADHAD, 2012, film

Humans Will Conceptualise the Future of Their Own Demise

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Justene Williams
Turnstile Heaped on Pour Down

Sean Grattan
HADHAD

 

8 August - 7 September 2012

The evolution of humanity

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Bob van der Wal and Ben Clement, Be Seen, Be Effective, Auckland University town campus, 2012

Part Visible, Part Hidden

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Ben Clement and Bob van der Wal
Be seen, be effective

 

1 August - 31 August 2012

Assumptions in the University social space

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Alicia Frankovich, installation of video of Jumping Man. Part of Floor Resistance, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland. Photo: John McIvor

Walters Prize Finalists 2012

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Frankovich, Denny, Spong, Newby

The Walters Prize 2012

 

4 August - 11 November 2012

A curiously balanced combination

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Gavin Hurley, Lab Rat, 2012, pigment ink on Hahnemuhle Photo-rag paper with paper collage, 915 x 730 mm framed

Three Individuals

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
Gavin Hurley / Peter Peryer / Emily Wolfe

 

8 August - 1 September 2012

Collage / Photography / Painting

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Ruth Watson's Redoubting Antarctica at Two Rooms

The Future of Antarctica

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Ruth Watson
Redoubting Antarctica

 

13 July - 11 August

Zeroing in on the 2048 Treaty

JH
Jorge Mendez Blake, I would prefer not to, 2012, cement blocks, 8 books, 70.87 x 173.23 x 70.87 inches. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Salutations from LA

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

International group show

Greetings From Los Angeles

 

10 July - 6 August 2012

Brian Butler’s taster

JH
Caryline Boreham, Manukau Police Custody - Day Room, 2010, archival inkjet print, mounted and framed, 1200 x 900 mm

Reflecting Walls

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Caryline Boreham and Nicola Holden
With In

 

19 July - 8 August 2012

Holden and Boreham

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Detail from Leanne Joy Lupelele Clayton's Bitter and Sweet, 2005, screenprint on paper, acrylic paint, 335 x 32 x 590 mm. Courtesy of the artist

Scrutinising Pattern

OBJECTSPACE

Auckland

 

Group show

Ubiquitous: Aspects of Contemporary Pattern

 

30 June - 1 September 2012

The uses of ornament

JH
Bob van der Wal: clay brown + uracryl shield, 2012, Auckland City council uracryl shield, acrylic. On floor, untitled, 2012, X5, protective wrapping, primer, hardboard, pine, glue

Bob van der Wal’s Anti-tagging Painting

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Bob van der Wal
Glee Works

 

19 July - 28 July 2012

testing Auckland Council’s anti-graffiti products

JH
Installation of Jeena Shin's Reflection Reflected upstairs at Two Rooms. Fractus 1-III, each acrylic on canvas, 1675 x 1187 mm. Photo by Jennifer French

Shin’s Korean Works at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Reflection Reflected

 

13 July - 11 August 2012

Flickering angular sheets of folded light

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