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JH
Tony Cragg sculpture installed at Gow Langsford

Fleeting Whispering Spirits

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony Cragg

 

16 November 2011 - 21 January 2012

Metal figures morphing into stratified landforms

JH
Patrick Lundberg, Untitled, 2011, gesso, thumbtacks, acrylic, varnish. Detail

What Can Painting Be?

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Patrick Lundberg
Quotes

 

23 November - 22 December 2011

Skinny supports or surfaces spread apart

JH
l-r: Gretchen Albrecht, Steppe, 1980; Eve Armstrong, Experience Tells Us, 2011; Gretchen Albrecht, Desert Edge, 1980

Collaborative Presentation at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Gretchen Albrecht and Eve Armstrong
Making Arrangements

 

19 November - 23 December 2011

Sculpture responding to painting


JH
Billy Apple®, A History of the Brand, 2005/2009, UV impregnated ink print on canvas, text, acrylic on canvas, 987 x 609 mm

Images of the Apple Brand

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Billy Apple®
A History of the Brand

 

24 November - 8 December 2011

Four stages in an art career

JH
Ivan Mršić, The Ritual, downstairs at Snake Pit.

Coffee Waste As Medium

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Ivan Mršić
The Ritual

 

18 November - 2 December 2011

Paintings and site inseparable

JH
Rowan McNaught, Wonderful Turbines, video, 2011, detail

Straddling Material and Immaterial Worlds

PERSONAL BEST

Auckland

 

Rowan McNaught, Daif King, Sam Hancocks
Brand New Value
Curated by Morag Dempsey

 

11 November - 3rd December 2011

Melbourne Artists in K’ Rd


JH
Julia Morison: left to right. On the far wall  Liqueurfaction paintings. Then Laconic Thing, Fretful Thing, Bare Forked Thing, Thing in the Making, Handy Thing, Small Triumphal Thing (on wall), Net (also on wall) and Curious Thing. Photo Jennifer French

Morison Sculpture in Auckland

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Julia Morison
Meet Me on the Other Side

 

28 October - 22 December 2011

Exploiting earthquake damage in studio

JH
Christina Read and Matthew Crookes, Why bother bulding scales, invitation image

The Absurdity of Questionnaires

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Matthew Crookes and Christina Read
Why Bother Building Scales.

 

16 November - 10 December 2011

Surveys & Lists

JH

Room as Self and Thought

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Ruth Buchanan
Furniture, Plan, Rival Brain

 

9 November - 3 December 2011

Spatial exploration with literary tropes


JH
Roger Boyce, The Rape of Aotearoa; An Allegory, 2010, oil and acrylic polymer on hardwood panel, 440 x 610 mm

Examining Maori–Pakeha Relations

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce
Aotearoa: A Pictorial Allegory

 

9 November - 17 December 2011

Ambiguous & ambivalent political tropes

JH
Geoff Thornley, Voice of Mimesis, 1999-2000, oil on canvas, four of the five panels.

Delicate Thornley Field Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Geoff Thornley
Voice of Mimesis

 

8 November - 18 December 2011

Delayed exposure for ten years

JH
Zhang Xianyong, Last Supper, Red Army, photograph, 2006, 1000mm x 1330mm

Shanghai Fantasies

MOSSGREEN-WEBB'S

Auckland

 

Zhang Xianyong

 

4 November - 18 November 2011

Hybrid blending of East and West


JH
Ann Shelton, In a Forest, installed at Starkwhite

Evil by Association

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Ann Shelton
In a Forest

 

4 November - 29 November 2011

Historical links with a sinister era

JH

Sculpture with Photographic Components

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Holly Davies
This room, the sum of my memories (of you)

 

3 November - 15 November 2011

Uneasy synthesis of sculpture, photography, video and text

JH
John Ward Knox, No title (cane, chair), 2011, cane, chair, dimensions variable.

Ward Knox at Anthony

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
moving on looking

 

26 October - 19 November 2011

Another sort of practice for this artist


JH
Sean Grattan, Carmen San Diego: Out OF Work And On The Run, 2011. Part of installation at ARTSPACE. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Abrupt Movements and Sounds

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Atkins, Grattan and Sofo
Sudden gestures or noises
Curated by Caterina Riva

 

21 October - 26 November 2011

Two films & an installation-collection

JH
Boyd Webb, Horse and Dog, 2002, DVD, 10 mins,

Earlyish Video Works

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jankowski, Maloy and Webb
Nature Videos

 

14 October - 5 November 2011

Ruminating over ‘Nature’.

JH
Peter Panyoczki, Silent Drift of Time, 2011, driftwood, steel on timber, 110 x 200 cm

Deciphering Textual Layers

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Panyoczki
Matters

 

13 October - 29 October 2011

Braille coding and symbolic substances


JH
Nicola Farquhar's New Paintings installed at Hopkinson Cundy

Farquhar’s Imaginary Portraits

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nicola Farquhar
New Paintings

 

6 October - 6 November 2011

Edgy but not far enough

JH
Julian Hooper: Vlad 4, Vlad 5, Vlad 6 and Vlad 7 at Ivan Anthony, acrylic on hardboard, 500 x 400 mm

Hooper’s Folk Art and Designer Surrealism

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian Hooper
Seven Nights

 

28 September - 22 October 2011

Juxtaposing and comparing themes

JH
Michael Parekowhai, The Far Side, 2011, aluminium, automotive paint, fibreglass. Installation view. Image courtesy of the Michael Lett Gallery

Colourful & Conceptually Complex Parekowhai

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Parekowhai
The Far Side

 

8 October - 12 November 2011

Ambiguous questions of communal and personal identity