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Denise Batchelor, Owl Caged, at Viewfinder

Ornithological Rubbernecking

VIEWFINDER

Auckland

 

Denise Batchelor
Owl Caged

 

18 May 2011 - 31 May 2011

Part of the ongoing Viewfinder programme

JH
Shane Cotton, Star Eater, 2011, acrylic on linen, 2650 x 2650 mm

Cotton in the new Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Shane Cotton
Supersymmetry

 

28 April 2011 - 11 June 2011

Compositional disintegration and fluidity

JH
Bill Culbert's Light Levels at Crockford

Culbert Wall Reliefs and Photographs

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Bill Culbert
Light Levels

 

26 April 2011 - 21 May 2011

New Zealand daylight and French shadows


JH
Matt Henry, Vernacular Paintings. At the top of the stairs.

Matt Henry’s Vernacular Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Matt Henry
Vernacular Paintings

 

18 April 2011 - 28 May 2011

 

Blending into the design needs of the local

JH
Callum Innes at Jensen: Agitated Vertical, 2009; Untitled No. 147, 2010; Untitled No. 75, 2010

Callum Innes in Auckland

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Callum Innes
New Paintings


3 May - 4 June 2011

The poetry of paint removal

JH
Roy Good's Lintel Series at Artis.

Architectural Abstraction

ARTIS Gallery

Auckland

 

Roy Good
Lintel Series

 

4 May - 28 May 2011

Exploiting the gallery particularities


JH
John Ward Knox, Small Change, 2011, detail. Photo Nick Spratt

Ninow and Ward Knox

RM

Auckland

 

Charles Ninow

Coming Up For Air
John Ward Knox

Small Change 


24 April - 7 May 2011

Marks versus substitutions

JH
Tjalling de Vries, I can see it baby, its all over your face, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 1220 x 1030 mm

Ilam Masters Show

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Five Ilam Masters Candidates
Deconstruction / Reconstruction
Curated by Simon Ogden

 

19 April 2011 - 14 May 2011

Five varied emerging artists

JH
Joachim Bandau reliefs upstairs at Two Rooms

Bandau Wall Reliefs

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joachim Bandau

 

15 April 2011 - 14 May 2011

Dangling lacquered balsa sheets


JH
David Hofer, Indian Summer, 2011, acrylic, masking tape, board, 600 x 1300 mm overall

Hofer and Jannides

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

David Hofer & Milli Jannides

 

14 April 2011 - 14 May 2011

 

Two approaches to painting construction

JH
Invite for Bambury talk, featuring Site Works: Second Series, 2011

Bambury Contemplates Malevich

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Stephen Bambury
Noh Time

 

15 April 2011 - 15 May 2011

Looking at events 96 years old

JH
Simon Ingram, Matotchkichar, 2011, oil on canvas, 1700 x 1700 mm

Ingram’s Radio Paintings

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
Radio Painting

 

27 April 2011-14 May 2011

VLF transmissions guiding the brushmarks


JH
Billy Apple, $23,610 Top Up, 2010, UV impregnated ink on canvas, at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts

Downtown Auckland Apple Shows

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Billy Apple
Drawings and Reliefs, 1996

Pie charts and Bar Graphs, 1997
13 April - 7 May 2011 

MINTER ELLISON RUDD WATTS
Billy Apple
$23,610 Top Up
7 April - 3 June, 2011

Thinking about the Golden Ratio and Branding

JH
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industies, The Life of the City of the Mind, Freyberg Place

Andrew Clifford’s ‘Metropolis Dreaming’

Auckland GBD

Auckland Council 10 day art event

 

Living Room 2011
Metropolis Dreaming
Curated by Andrew Clifford

 

8 April 2011 - 17 April 2011

The third Living Room

JH
Siteseeing at St.Paul St. Gallery. Photo by Vera Mey.

Postcards by ‘Art’ Photographers

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Postcards by fifteen international photographers
Sightseeing
Curated by Hanna Scott

 

8 April - 29 April 2011

Art that comments on tourism


JH
Left to right at Jensen: Gunter Umberg, Untitled, 2010, pigment, dammar on panel; Burmese standing Buddha on Lotus base, lost wax bronze cast c.1880; Chikanobu, Portrait of Court Lady, 19th century Japanese woodblock

Testing the Limits of Portraiture

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Nauman, Oursler, Rae, Hamilton, Umberg, Harrison, Knoebel
Subject as Object: Considering Portraiture

 

22 March 2011 - 22 April 2011

The Subject as Attribute

JH
Installation of Sally Gabori works in the Tim Melville Gallery. On the left, Dibirdibi Country, 2010, and the right, both smaller works, My Country, 2009.

Aboriginal Art in Auckland

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Aboriginal Painting from Mornington & Bentinck Islands
The Heart of Everything

 

1 March - 30 April 2011

Painting from Northern Queensland

JH

Frater Video Installation

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Frater
The House with the Mezzanine

 

5 April 2011 - 23 April 2011

 

Remarkable suite of moving images


JH
Richard Killeen, Destruction of the Circle, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 1115 x 1520 mm

Walters / Killeen Pairing

JOHN LEECH GALLERY

Auckland

 

Gordon Walters and Richard Killeen
Walters and Killeen

 

30 March, 2011 - 23 April, 2011

Conversations through painting

JH
Purakau as installed at Te Tuhi

Posters from Mexico, Cuba and Aotearoa

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International Poster Exhibition
Pūrākau
Curated by Xavier Meade and Flor de Lis López

 

5 March 2011 - 1 May 2011

Attention seeking images made for different purposes

JH
Simon Esling paintings: Comet#1, 2011; Meteor #1, 2011;  Cascade, 2010; Blink of an Eye, 2011

Esling works

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Esling
The Music of Chance

 

23 March - 16 April 2011

Curious mixture of conceptually linked paintings