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Alicia Frankovich's Bodies & Situations at Starkwhite.

Frankovich Videos

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich
Bodies and Situations

 

10 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Pondering Chaplin and Genet

JH
Daniel Malone, Epicurios of an Other CV......, at Hopkinson Cundy

Poland and the EU.

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Daniel Malone
…A Communist Kiosk in a Common Market

 

9 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

 

Malone castigates the Poles

JH
Selina Foote's Tuileries installed at Sue Crockford

Starting With a Portrait

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Selina Foote
Tuileries

 

7 February - 3 March 2012

Transmutation of art historical detail


JH
James K. Lowe, Like Home series, chromira print, di-bond mount, 800x 1000 mm

Photographers Look at Cinema

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

James K. Lowe, Haruhiko Sameshima, Ben Cauchi
It’s all make believe

 

10 February 2012 - 3 March 2012

Three diverging approaches

JH
DJN performing The Concrete Mix at Audio Foundation on 4 February 2012

DJN at Audio Foundation

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

DJN
Seeing and Hearing

 

4 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Experiencing and remembering sound

JH

Uneven Taylor at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Imogen Taylor
Balls Deep

 

26 January 2012 - 25 February 2012

Wild oscillation in quality


JH
Campbell Patterson, So Tired, 2012, towel, sultana bran, pins, 1120 x 1070 mm

Varied Patterson Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
So Tired

 

26 January 2012 - 25 February 2012

Videos, sculpture and painting

JH
Christine Hellyar, Hutton and Cotton: The McGregor Museum Revisited, in Gallery Two, Gus Fisher. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Remember Museums?

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Christine Hellyar
Hutton and Cotton: The McGregor Museum Revisited

 

20 January 2012 - 3 March 2012

Hellyar’s storing and interpretation of biological curiosities

JH
John Radford with Len Lye's Universe in Phil Dadson's OSMOSIS (of Len Lye's Universe), 2011, HD video, 6 min.15 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite

Artists Responding to Lye

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Lye, Mitchell, Dadson, Laird, Thomson, von Sturmer
Old Genes: Artists Reading Len Lye


10 December 2011 - 26 February 2012

Treating Len as writer


JH
Reuben Paterson, Unsung, 2012, mylar foil, courtesy the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Paterson’s reflected light

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Reuben Paterson
Bottled Lightning


20 January - 3 March 2012

Mini-survey at Gus Fisher

JH
Cover of Wayne Barrar's Torbay tī kōuka: a New Zealand tree in the English Riviera

Aotearoa Invades Blighty

University of Plymouth Press, England

Wayne Barrar book of photographs

Torbay tī kōuka: a New Zealand tree in the English Riviera
Essays by Philip Simpson and Peter Simpson
December 2011

The English enthusiasm for the cabbage tree

JH
Ben Clement, Babes and Flowers (detail), lighter stickers, tiles, expanding foam

Group Show at Snake Pit

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Kennedy, Clement, Champion, Beekhuis and Tocker

Queens Chain

 

23 January 2012 - 7 February 2012

 

Gambia Castle influenced presentation


JH
Working image from Cat Auburn's video, Crying Cliffs

Auburn Video

VIEWFINDER

Auckland

 

Cat Auburn
Crying Cliffs

 

25 January 2012 - 7 February 2012

Viewfinder project in front window of Auckland Public Library

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Mariana Vasssileva's sculpture, Going Out, and video, Never carry two watermelons under one arm - at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Vassileva Video, Drawings & Sculpture

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Mariana Vassileva
The gentle brutality of simultaneity

 

6 January 2012 - 31 January 2012

European symbolism

JH
To Take Place, behind the glass, at Window

Gallery as Storage Receptacle

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Recent graduates
To Take Place

 

16 Dec. 2011 - 16 Feb. 2012

Examining potentiality


JH

Pule Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

John Pule
Hauaga (Arrivals)

 

17 Dec. 2011 - 25 March 2012

City Gallery’s touring show

JH
Paul Cullen's five covered book, r/p/m, published by Split/Fountain

Paul Cullen Publication

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Paul Cullen book
r/p/m

Essays by Laird, Watson, Dale, and Laing
Designed by Narrow Gauge and Jayme Yen
5 paper covers, 110 pp

Interpreting ‘scientific’ research

JH
Jenny Gillam, Future Calls the Dawn, 2011, multimedia, with Simon Morris , Sound Line, 2011, acrylic paint, and Dr Kron, Image Credit, 2011, adhesive vinyl

Hansen and Friends in Pakuranga

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Eugene Hansen and collaborators
RootMeanSquare

 

26 Nov. 2011 - 29 Jan. 2012

Energetic audio/visual mix


JH
Tahi Moore, I Guess You'd Call It a Video Composition with Pyramid and Beats, installed at Te Tuhi

The Wonders & Exasperations of Travel

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Tahi Moore
I guess you’d call it a video composition…

 

26 Nov. 2011 - 29 Jan. 2012

Tantalising glimpses of Europe

JH
Bepen Bhana's Te Tuhi billboard project, Facial Suite, on Reeves Road, Pakuranga.

Desirable Bodies; Obliterated Upper Faces

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Bepen Bhana
The Facial Suite 2011

 

26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012

Te Tuhi Billboard Project

JH
Installation of polymer clay works by Matt Hinkley at Hopkinson Cundy

Summer Group Show

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Austin, Barber, Hinkley, Perkins, Petherick
Big Refrigerator

 

8 December, 2011 - 28 January, 2012

Christmas hamper