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JH
Nick Austin, Aquarium (with briefcase), 2011, acrylic on newspaer, glass, metal fittings, 575 x 785 mm.

Austin at Hopkinson Cundy

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Not haiku

 

3 February 2011 - 5 March 2011

Aquariums as anti-haiku

JH
Installation view from left to right: Selina Foote: Buren, 2010. Gonzales, 2010. Boit, 2011. Habsburg, 2010.

An Art Form with Stamina

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Apple, Albrecht, Dashper, Foote, Hotere, Nixon, Reynolds, Robinson, Mrkusich, Walters, White
Painting

 

8 February 2011 - 26 February 2011

The doggedness of Painting

JH
Graham Fletcher, Untitled (Lounge Room Tribalism), 2009-2010, oil on canvas, 1500 x 1200 mm

Fletcher and Thatcher at Melanie Roger

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tim Thatcher 

Graham Fletcher

 

26 January - 19 February 2011

Collecting tribal art; storing paintings


JH
et al.'s trans-cryption at Michael Lett in Great North Road

et al. At New Lett Venue

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

et al.
trans-cryption

 

10 February 2011 - 19 March 2011

Shifting grinding sound and chopped up language

JH
Steven Chow, I see when you sleep, I hear when you wake, dvd detail

Three MIC Shows

MIC TOI REREHIKO GALLERY

Auckland

Steven Chow: I see when you sleep, I hear when you wake
Leonard So: Sheep, Pirate, Mouse
Shahriar Asdollah-zadeh: The Revolution Continued

28 January 2011 - 19 February 2011

Political and ecological exhibitions juxtaposed

JH
Max Gimblett, Jaguar – in Memorian – after Sigmar Polke, 2010, gesso, acrylic & vinyl polymers, epoxy, oil size, Swiss gold leaf / canvas, 60 x 60 x 2 inch

Op Art Gimblett

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Max Gimblett
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

 

1 February 2011 - 28 February 2011

Intriguing new direction within quatrefoils


JH
Paintings Paintings at Window

Paintings in Window

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Akel. Bryant, Drawbridge, Dwyer, Foote, Lundberg, Millar, Rountree Williams, Wealleans
Paintings Paintings 

26 January - 25 February 2011

Wondering what to paint and how

JH
Greenhouse and borrowed fence: works by Ross Forbes and Anthony Cribb on the the terraced rooftop next to CNZ's Auckland offices.

CNZ Offices as Art Venue

CNZ AUCKLAND OFFICE

Auckland 

Cribb, Forbes, Pearson

Initiatives towards fundamental fulfilment

 

15 December 2010 - 28 February 2011

Inviting artists to install interactive projects

JH
Seung Yul Oh's PokPo at ARTSPACE. Courtesy of Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Seung Yul Oh at ARTSPACE

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
PokPo

 

4 December 2010 - 19 February 2011

Contemplating Parekowhai through Oh.


JH
Installation of Call Waiting, looking at Andrew Bogle curated exhibtions in one room of the New Gallery

Celebrating Auckland’s New Gallery

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Call Waiting: A Celebration of the New Gallery 1995 - 2011
Curated by Alexa Johnston


20 November 2010 - 30 May 2011

Goodbye to the Telephone Exchange Building

JH
The installation of Frieze at Gow Langsford

Group Show In Tightly Linear Format

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Christmas group show involving five Auckland dealers

Frieze


1 December 2010 - 29 January 2011

 

Some interesting components to this Frieze

JH
David McCracken, Incendiary Artwork, 2009, stainless steel, 2200 x 600 x 600 mm.

Warkworth’s Art and Nature Trail

BRICK BAY SCULPTURE TRAIL

Warkworth

 

Ongoing display of outdoor exhibits

 

All year long

A pleasant ramble through the Northland landscape


JH
Christine Hellyar's City Clothesline, suspended between two columns, and on the back wall, works by Gavin Chilcott, Emily Karaka and Gretchen Albrecht.

(Some) Art and Social Change

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Local Revolutionaries: Art and Change 1965 - 1986
Curated by Mary Kisler and Ron Brownson

 

3 July 2010 - 30 May 2011

 

Auckland Art Gallery Collection: the sixties to the eighties

JH
Pat Hanly, Wisdom, enamel on board,

Hanly’s Vertically Ascending Mural

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Pat Hanly
The Seven Ages of Man

 

3 December 2010 - 8 January 2011

Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man made Buddhist

JH

Mitch, Frater and Lundberg

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Roman Mitch: Obstructions

Patrick Lundberg & Richard Frater: Untitled 2007

 

17 December 2010 - 20 January 2011

Window’s mingling of past and present


JH
Whitney Bedford, Untitled Shipwreck (the not. knot), 2010, ink and oil on board.

Bedford Paintings

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Whitney Bedford
From here to there

 

7 December 2010 - 19 January 2011

Global catastrophes or personal confessions?

JH
Billy Apple, The Corner Post (Wairepa Swamp Walk detail)

Billy Apple in Kingsland

Eden Park Public Art Projects

Auckland

 

Billy Apple
Corner Post

Eden Park and Onslow St projects

JH
The Estate of L. Budd, DBo50838.110 untitled (do we know), 1995, oil stick,acrylic paint, roller blind, 1000 x 1000 mm

Last Lett Show at K’Rd

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Group show
Everything is near and inflorescent, forever and present

 

3 December 2010 - 23 December 2010

Final group exhibition before shift to Arch Hill


JH
John Reynolds, The Meaning of Nowhere installation

Reynolds and the Weather

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Reynolds
The Meaning of Nowhere

 

30 November - 23 December 2010

Dotted lines over nature’s markings

JH
Warhol Christmas Card

That time of year….

December 2010 - January 2011

….

JH
Paul Cullen, Motel, at Te Tuhi, first stage

Continually Changing Cullen Project

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Paul Cullen
Motel

 

11 September, 2010 - 9 January, 2011

Shifting planet and supended furniture