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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

JH
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


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