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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?

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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