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JH
Christina Read, The Usual, 2012, projector, slide, cardboard.

Minimal Yet Evocative Read

RM

Auckland

 

Christina Read
The Usual

 

10 May - 26 May 20012

Soft leather paintings

JH
Barbara Tuck, Caterpillar Chemistry, 2012, oil on board, 800 x 800 mm

Austerely Lavish Tuck

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Barbara Tuck
Alice Capricious Compass

 

9 May - 2 June 2012

A linear geometry prevails

JH
Billy Apple and Craig Hilton, The Immortalisation of Billy Apple (Stage 2). Photo by Jennifer French

An Artwork that Multiplies

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Billy Apple and Craig Hilton
The Immortalisation of Billy Apple ® (Stage 2)

 

19 April - 24 May 2012

Laying foundations for future Apples

JH
Brad Lochore's Paintings at Two Rooms. The work on the right is Sofa Vanitas, oil on canvas, 1300 x 2000 mm. Photo by Jennifer French

Lochore Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Brad Lochore
Paintings

 

20 April - 19 May 2012

Blurry transient shadows with spectral edges

JH
Installation of Brett Graham's Tangaroa piri whare at two Rooms. Photo by Jennifer French.

Brett Graham Carving

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Brett Graham
Tangaroa pire whare

 

20 April - 19 May 2012

Form and concept perfectly merged

JH
On the floor, Maria Taniguchi, Muses, cement, black oxide, hessian,2012. On the walls, Adam Avikainen works. Right: Traansnikko, 2012, turmeric, ginger, oil of oregano, water on 3M paper. Left, Drift Gene, beets, ginger, oil of oregano, water on 3M paper.

Verbal and Peripatetic Rambling

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Adam Avikainen & Maria Taniguchi
Rambler’s Association

 

20 April - 19 May 2012

Avikainen and Taniguchi in Auckland

JH
Front cover of 2

Volume Two from Artspace

2
Richard Maloy, Jeena Shin, Koki Tanaka, Meredith Johnson, Jim Allen, Campbell Patterson, Dave, Alicia Frankovich, Cao Fei, Liz Maw

Articles and interviews
Editor: Emma Bugden 
Clouds/Artspace 2012

Emma Bugden’s selection

JH
Vincent Ward, Rorschach Tree, 2011, pigment inks on archival paper, 1650 x 1180 mm

Freezing the Narrative

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Vincent Ward
Breath: the fleeting intensity of life

 

10 December 2011 - 26 February 2012

Mingling paint with film

JH
Cover of White Fungus #12

The Hanson Brothers’ White Fungus

Taichung City

 

White Fungus #12
Editor: Ron Hanson
Designers: Carla Schollum, Mark Hanson


156 pages, b/w and colour.

The twelfth issue

JH
Simon McIntyre, Fracture, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 555 x 760 mm. Photograph: Kallan MacLeod

Reflecting on Reflections

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon McIntyre
There and Back

 

17 April - 19 May 2012

Transitory urban shimmerings

JH
Tjalling de Vries, Double Trouble, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 1200 x 1020 mm

Fragmented Pop

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Tjalling de Vries
Switchblade… Get the Point

 

28 March - 28 April 2012

Lichtenstein meets Richter

JH
Paper-jams: artists between the covers at the Gus Fisher. On wall works by Paul Cullen and Elliot Collins. Photo by Sam Hartnett

The Physicality of Books

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
Paper-jams: artists between the covers
Curated by Andrew Clifford

 

9 March - 28 April 2012

Publications as material and communication

JH
Bill Culbert's Hut installed at Sue Crockford's. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Lightly Delineated Hut

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert
Hut

 

3 April - 28 April 2012

Culbert’s tubular fluorescent drawing

JH
Newspaper Reading Club Daily, devised by Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, at Split Fountain. The reader is Inger-Lisa Hurst, accompanied by the artist Michala Paludan.. Photo by Asumi Mizuo.

Newspaper Reading as Oral Performance

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

Michael Parr and Blaine Western
The Loft was Made for No One
Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
Newspaper Reading Club Daily

 

14 April - 16 April 2012

Opening of S/F’s new venue

JH
Amber Wilson, Hirsute Pond, 2012, oil on canvas, 600 x 600mm

Confections on the Lawn

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Amber Wilson
Lagoon

 

11 April - 5 May 2012

Taste, tactility and colour mood

JH
Andrea Geyer, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb 2009 6 channel video installation HD video, sound, 6 stools 52 minutes Courtesy the artist

Art Production as Film Set

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Tribe, Fast, Bartana, Geyer, Gillick and Vidokle

True Stories / Scripted Realities
Curated by Mercedes Vicente

 

10 March - 23 June 2012

 

Undermining moral certainty

JH
Martin Creed, Work No. 1096, 2011, framed photographic print, 1635 x 1645 mm, edition of 3

Creed in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Martin Creed

 

6 April - 12 May 2012

Emphasis on painting

JH
Simon Morris, Coloured Line, 2012, acrylic, wall. Image: Jennifer French

Exhibition Venue Non-Objective

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Billy Apple, Simon Morris, Christoph Dahlhausen
Gallery Abstract

 

9 March - 14 April 2012

Three variations on a theme

JH
ARTSPACE, Every cloud has a silver lining, at ARTSPACE. Photo Samuel Hartnett

ARTSPACE Looks Back

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

ARTSPACE staff

Every cloud has a silver lining

 

16 March - 5 April 2012

Needing a bigger more dynamic ARTSPACE

JH
Newell Harry, The natives are restless, 2006-2012. neon, helvetica neue lite (snowwhite), timer

Using Art to Combat Prejudice 2

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show

What do you mean, we?

 


3 March - 6 May 2012

Racial bigotry as subject matter

JH
Kalisolaite Uhila, Mo'ul tukuausia, 2012, performance between 19 March - 1 April

Using Art to Combat Prejudice 1

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show
What do you mean, we?


3 March - 6 May 2012

Building a fair and just world

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