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Tony Oursler, Sang, 2008, video projection on polystyrene form

Projected Oursler Sculptures

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tony Oursler
Sculpture

 

19 July - 25 August 2012

Ocular Preoccupations

JH
Leilani Kake, Ariki, 2011, digital video, detail. Courtesy of the artist

Auckland’s Pasifika Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Home AKL

 

7 July - 22 October 2012

Celebrating three generations of Kaupapa Pasifika

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Hop Scotch at Artspace. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Sensual Painting Show at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Kim Pieters and Anoushka Akel
Hop Scotch
Curated by Caterina Riva

 

13 July - 18 August 2012

Akel / Pieters: a clever juxtaposition


JH
Francis Till's Light Industry at Gloria Knight

3G Network (Gallery) Sculpture

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Francis Till
Light Industry

 

10 July - 28 July 2012

Visiting Gloria Knight

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Richard Maloy, Workings (with blue), 2012, colour photograph

To Be Used in Evidence

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Maloy
Raw Workings

 

3 July - 4 August 2012

Incriminating traces within documentary photographs

JH
Andrew Barber, Hedge No.1 and Hedge No.2, both patchwork cotton and 3000 x 3000 mm. At Hopkinson Cundy

Painting as Walk-Through Installation

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Hedge

 

28 June - 4 August 2012

Wonders of light on taut denim


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On wall: Mary-Louise Browne, You Know How, 2004, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Bartley + Company, Art, Wellington

Textworks from Cinema

SAATCHI & SAATCHI GALLERY

Auckland

 

Mary-Louise Browne

Don’t Be Afraid

 

26 May - 6 August 2012

Browne texts since 2000

JH
Jim Allen, Arena, 1970 (remade 2012), galvinised steel, barbed wire, clothing donated by family and friends, 2000 mm x 2000 x 2000 mm

Mixed Jim Allen Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jim Allen
The Skin of Years

 

28 June - 4 August 2012

Contemplating the individual and the state

JH
Detail of Richard Orjis installation, by quiet volcanoes. on the seat are painted ceramic 'books' by Tessa Laird.

Orjis at Roger

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Orjis
by quiet volcanoes


13 June - 7 July 2012

The hypnotic power of dirt


JH
Affirmation Dungeon cover

Dan Arps Publication

Publication

Dan Arps
Affirmation Dungeon

 

Essays by Bywater, Aitken, Hyland, Melan, Pathways

335 pp hardcover
Michael Lett /Clouds 2012

Innovative and multi-layered

JH
A still from Thompson's film, Untitled, 2009

Luke Willis Thompson Performance

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
Untitled

 

Sunday 1 July, 3 pm

Examining memory

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Gregor Kregar's Dream House Project at Te Tuhi

Kregar’s Te Tuhi Foyer Installation

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Gregor Kregar
Dream House Project

 

8 April - 28 October 2012

A porous shelter


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Left to right. Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Mangere Mall, 2011, single channel digital video; Louise Afoa, Reload, 2011, single channel video; Mark Adams, Hinemihi, Clandon Park, Surrey..., 2000, C types, and Hinemihi, Te Wairoa..; Ans Westra, Washday at the Pa.

What is Documentation?

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

International group show
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary

 

25 May - 29 June 2012

Examining representation

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Derrick Cherrie: Constituent Parts #4 (Orange Runner) on the left. Constituent Parts #1 (untitled) on the right.

Cherrie at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Derrick Cherrie
Constituent Parts: Objects and Their Discontents

 

26 May - 29 July 2012

Indoor and outdoor shows

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Richard Serra, Te Tuhirangi Contour, 1999-2001, corten steel, 252 m x 6 m x 50 mm. Photo Marian Kerr.

Visiting the Gibbs Farm

GIBBS FARM

Kaipara

 

International group show
Works commissioned by Alan Gibbs

 

Visit by appointment

 

Massive sculpture in a Kaipara backdrop


JH
John B. Turner's Postcards from China at projectspaceB431

Images from Beijing

PROJECTSPACE B431

Auckland

 

John B. Turner
Postcards from China

 

6 June - 23 June 2012

Everyday life in the Chinese capital

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Layla Rudneva-Mackay's Pointing at Trees, installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Beautiful but Backward

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Pointing at Trees

 

31 May - 30 June 2012

Conservative show at Starkwhite

JH
Alex Monteith, 2.5 Kilometre Mono Action for a Mitage, 2011, super 16 mm/35 mm/digital video, colour, sound, 4.30 mm, detail

Website for NZ Film and Video Artists

CIRCUIT website

 

Curated by Mark Williams

 

Online

Exciting new moving image site


JH
Sean Snyder's video Alalepsis, 2004, on the wall. Video without sound. On the three plinths, photographs from 2009, Untitled (ideological material, printed materials, celluloid); Untitled (digital image sensing devices, LCD screens). Photo Sam Hartnett

Digital dominance, proliferation and mutability

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Fuyama, Laric, Nerney, Riebeek and Snyder
alienate/demonstrate/edit
Curated by Arron Santry

 

25 May - 30 June 2012

Artspace intern show

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Patterned Paintings From Textile Offcuts

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Zac Langdon-Pole
Nothing by itself

 

18 May - 23 June 2012

Fabric scraps and reversed canvases

JH
Daniel Crooks, Imaginary Object #23, 2007, lambda print, 109 x 109 cm

Crooks Photographs and Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Daniel Crooks
Imaginary Objects

 

25 May - 7 July 2012

More contemplative and less bodily