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Matt Henry, User Friendly detail. On left (through glass) Untitled 500 x 400 (Titanium white), 2011. On right, Untitled 500x 800 (Titanium White), 2011, both acrylic gesso on linen, pine stretchers.

Matt Henry at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Matt Henry
User Friendly

 

24 September - 6 November 2011

Precisional placement and logic

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Lisa Crowley, The Reading Hall (video poster) Courtesy of Fox Jensen and McNamara Galleries.

Filming Alvar Aalto’s Library in Russia

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland
Lisa Crowley

Printed Mind
27 September - 5 November 2011

TE TUHI
The Reading Hall
24 September - 6 November 2011

Book culture and architecture

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JahJahSphinx, CDJ, a Te Tuhi billboard project on Reeves Road

Online Image Scavenged for Pakuranga Traffic

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

JahJahSphinx
CDJ

 

27 August - 6 November 2011

Training pets or training drivers


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Joe Sheehan, Words Fail, 2011, carrara marble, dimensions variable

Craft Skills: Documenting Themselves and More

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Joe Sheehan
Record


4 October - 29 October 2011

Sheehan’s carving with assorted nephrite jades and marbles

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Clinton Watkins video works: left to right, Hawk, Wave, Stride and Force Field. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Watkins Audio Visual Sampler

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Clinton Watkins
Selection

 

27 September - 22 October 2011

Inventive configuration of five works

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Fiona Pardington, Phallus impudicus, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, 825 x 1100 mm

A New Museological Series From Fiona Pardington

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Phantasma

 

9 September - 22 October 2011

Photographing fungi fascimiles in Nice


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Rene Magritte, The red model 1935, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 56 x 46cm, Collection: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, © René Magritte/ADAGP. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2011

Brisbane’s Big Surrealism Show

GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Brisbane

 

Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams
Curated from the Pompidou Collection by Didier Ottinger

 

11 June - 2 October 2011

The Pompidou visits Queensland

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Jack Hadley, Worry Wort in ARTSPACE's loft

Spiritual Enlightenment up in ARTSPACE’s Loft

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Jack Hadley
Worry wort

 

2 September - 8 October 2010

Hadley’s meditation video theatre

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Tobias Kaspar, G, J, O, I, G, N, G, courtesy of the artist and Silberkuppe, Berlin, photo by Sam Hartnett

Testing Riva’s Transmission

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

General Idea, Patricia Dauder, Tobias Kaspar
Test Transmission
Curated by Caterina Riva

 

2 September - 8 October 2011

New Director’s first show in the Newton based institution


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Alex Vivian, An oversized jacket. Jeans, that fit, 2011, installation at Hopkinson Cundy.

Focussed Priapic Vivian

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Alex Vivian
An oversized jacket. Jeans, that fit.

 

2 September - 1 October 2011

Less humorous, more sexual

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Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia and Sonya Lacey, Parlour Peeps at 14/79 Beresford St

Lacey Performance / Savtchenko Installation

PARLOUR

Auckland

 

Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia and Sonya Lacey

Parlour Peeps

 

Sat 17 September 6-8 am

Peeping out at the early spring light

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Sam Cranstoun's Oil! at Boxcopy

Cranstoun at Boxcopy

BOXCOPY

Brisbane

Sam Cranstoun
Oil!
Curated by Daniel McKewen

 

10 September - 1 October 2011

Greed for oil, wealth and power


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Sam Rountree Williams, Nature Culture at St. David's Church Hall (detail)

Rountree Williams’ Paintings

St. David's Church Hall

Auckland

 

Sam Rountree Williams
Nature Culture

 

14 - 15 September 2011

Can ‘awkward’ and ‘not quite right’ paintings transcend failure?

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Heleln Calder, In front, behind, side-by-side - at Antoinette Godkin Gallery

Colour as Peeled Skin

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Helen Calder
In front, behind, side-by-side

 

7 September - 15 October 2011

Calder’s projecting lines

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Darren Glass, Cosmo Flying Disc #327, 2000-2010, type c handprinted.

Darren Glass Photographs

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Darren Glass

 

24 August - 24 September 2011

Inventing new trajectories for tracing moving light


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Peter Alwast's Future Perfect at the IMA. (detail)

Alwast at the IMA

INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART

Brisbane

 

Peter Alwast
Future Perfect

 

20 August - 15 October 2011

Can digital animation shed its sweetness?

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Peter Roehr, Film Montages (detail) at the IMA

The Joy of Repetition

INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART

Brisbane

 

Peter Roehr
Montage Films

 

20 August - 15 October 2011

Narrative sequences made abstract

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Michael Stevenson and Danius Kesminas, Daily Practice, 1999

Self-broadcasting as Community Television

METRO ARTS

Brisbane

 

Bradley, Dabrowski, Grayson, Stevenson & Kesminas, and Woodward
This is what I do
Curated by Wes Hill

 

31 August - 17 September 2011

DIY as artistic strategy


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Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, architects FJMT & Archimedia, detail, photo by Patrick Reynolds

FJMT & Archimedia Modified Auckland Art Gallery

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Auckland Art Gallery Re-opens

 


September 3 2011 -11am

Double the exhibiting power

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Jin Jiangbo, Infiltration, 2011, pigment ink on photo rag, 74 x 100 cm

Jin Jiangbo Looks at Aotearoa

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jin Jiangbo
Dialogue with Nature

 

20 August - 17 September 2011

Embracing colour and intricate texture

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Paul Cullen, Device 1 (weather balloon), 2011, weather balloon, metal struts, electric motor and cord, 2340 x 2040 x 2100 mm

Cullen’s Connected Macro and Micro Systems

JANE SANDERS ART AGENT

Auckland

 

Paul Cullen
HTWW: devices

 

24 August - 24 September 2011

 

Before and after Science