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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

JH
Jason Greig at St.Paul St Gallery Three. Photo by Melissa Laing.

Greig, Cleavin and Hammond

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

Barry Cleavin and Jason Greig
Third Exhibition Print Season 2011
2 April 2011 - 9 April 2011

Ivan Anthony
Jason Greig and Bill Hammond
Wishboneash: Urns & Burners

30 March 2011 - 23 April, 2011

A touch of the South Island?

JH
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Passage (The Eighth Fleet), 2011, cardboard boxes, packaging tape. Photo by Bryan James.

Immersing the Body in Art and Architecture

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth


International Group Show

Stealing the Senses
Curated by Rhana Devenport and Meredith Robertshawe

12 March 2011 - 6 June 2011

Embracing or denying the senses?


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Dane Mitchell, Your Memory of Rain Encased (UV Release), 2010. (detail)  UV-release encapsulated perfume, glass, silver nitrate, silicon, springs. Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Photo by Bryan James

Testing an Art Audience’s Thresholds

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Dane Mitchell
Radiant Matter Part 1
Curated by Mercedes Vicente

 

5 March 2011 - 29 May 2011

Movements of the olfactory and humid

JH
Mason billboard installation outside Te Tuhi

Mason’s Te Tuhi Hoardings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jennifer Mason
The Room at the End of the Hall

 

 
5 February 2011 - 6 July 2011

Viscerally treated architectural interiors

JH
Elliot Collins, Held Together, 2011, Te Tuhi Drawing Wall

Drawing with Nails and Coloured String

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Elliot Collins
Held Together

 

5 March 2011 - 19 June 2011

Exploring Community Interaction


JH
Laresa Kosloff, Red & White Run, 2011, Super 8 transferred to dvd, 1 min 20 sec loop

The Performative Body

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich / Laresa Kosloff / Ruth Proctor
If sameness is in the centre, then difference is on the periphery

 

8 March - 2 April 2011

Frankovich / Kosloff / Proctor

JH
Pieter Hugo, Gabazzini Zuo, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Dramatic Nigerian Portraits

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland Arts Festival

 

Pieter Hugo
Nollywood

 


5 February - 27 March 2011

Nollywood background and props

JH
John Malcolm photographs at Snowwhite, photo by Faye Norman.

North Sea and Alaskan Oil

SNOWHITE GALLERY UNITEC

Auckland Arts Festival

 

John Malcolm & Centre for Land Use Interpretation
Upstream Midstream Downstream
Curated by Lisa Reihana

 

2 March - 25 March 2011

Two looks at the hydrocarbon fluid