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Jennifer Mason's Experiment 14 in the Bledisloe Walkway. Images courtesy of the artist and Auckland Council

Do only men have authentically visible selves?

Bledisloe Walkway

Auckland Council Public Art Project

 

Jennifer Mason
Lightbox project: Experiment 14

 

19 November 2010 - 27 February 2011

Unprepared visages and gender issues

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Andrew Barber at Hopkinson Cundy. The large painting on the left is Stiff Blanket (butch)2010, oil on linen, 2850 x 2850 mm, and on the right is Bookend, 2010, oil on linen, 2850 x 2850 mm. The small work is Study (Detroit). Photo by Alex North.

New Barber Works

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Studies

 

9 December - 29 December 2010

 

Hopkinson Cundy’s second show

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Brendon Wilkinson, Jeweller, 2010, watercolour on paper, 38 x 56 cm

Wilkinson’s Delicate Renderings of Approaching Death

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Brendon Wilkinson
Silverfish

 

24 November - 23 December 2010

Grim mortality via pretty transparent watercolour


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Sam Harrison at Jensen,  installation of Crawling Man

Harrison Woodcuts and Statues

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Sam Harrison
Sculpture/Paper

 

16 November - 18 December 2010

Returning to the Body

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Ruark Lewis and Loma Bridge, In my empty House, at St. Paul Street Gallery 1.

Art and Anthropology

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Ruark Lewis with Loma Bridge
In My Empty House

 

26 November - 23 December 2010

Lewis and Bridge in Auckland

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Wade Marynowsky, Bricolage Disco at St. Paul St.

Marynowsky at AUT

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Wade Marynowsky
Bricolage Disco

 

26 November - 23 December 2010

Sculpture with Variable Light and Sound


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Joyce Campbell, Given The Waterfall, gelatin siver fibre-based print.

Searching For The Elusive Taniwha

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
Te Taniwha


19 November - 23 December 2010

Joyce Campbell’s Photographic Meditations on Mythical and Real Urewera Creatures

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Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped, 2008, 16mm film transferred to DVD, 15 minutes

Satirical documentary & filmed performance

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Co-Operative Explanatory Capabilities in Organizational Design and Personnel Management 2010
and The Future Trilogy 2006 - 2009

11 September - 5 December 2010

Tongue in cheek slide sequencing versus choreographed ritual

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Tanu Gago, You Love my Fresh

Staunch Celebration of South Auckland Samoan Culture

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

Tanu Gago
You Love My Fresh

Curated by Ema Tavola

11 September - 5 December 2010

Fresh / Te Tuhi collaboration


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Jim Speers, Numerology and Territories at Te Tuhi

Speers’ Sculpture Show

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jim Speers
Numerology and Territories

 

11 September - 5 December 2010

Big ‘plinths’, small sculpture

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Campbell Patterson, Orewa 1-4, 2010, digital video transferred to DVD, 4 portable DVD players, single bed, carry bag, drink bottle, plastic bag, variable dimensions

Patterson Installation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
Orewa

 

27 October - 27 November 2010

Olfactory sensations and visual documentation

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Andrew McLeod billboards on Reeves Road, Pakuranga

Vehicular Abstraction

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Andrew McLeod
Billboard project

 

11 September - 9 January 2011

McLeod billboards


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Richard Orjis at Te Tuhi, Grass Circle, 2010 - 2011

Nature as Sculpture

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Richard Orjis
Grass Circle 2010 - 2011

 

11 September, 2010 - 11 September, 2011

A year’s growth untramelled

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Richard Maloy, Attempt 3, 2010, unique C-type colour photograph, 800 x 1200 mm

Groping for Retinal Satisfaction and Meaning

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Maloy
ATTEMPTS

 

9 November - 27 November 2010

Accidental marks made purposeful

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Martin Basher at Starkwhite: STATES OF PEACE AND CALM W. PERSONAL TOUCH + EASY ORDERING, and SHAKY HANDS / GOOD DEALINGS

Ambiguous Critique of Consumerism’s Tight Embrace

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Martin Basher
STATES OF PEACE AND CALM W. PERSONAL TOUCH + EASY ORDERING

 

6 November - 27 November 2010

Martin Basher’s manipulation of desire - with irony or profit-seeking passivity?


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Mark Adams, At Point Venus, Matavai Bay, Tahitnui, 2003, C type print from 10 x 8 inch negative

Meditations on Lava

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Mark Adams
Lava

 

15 October - 13 November 2010

 

A mini survey of Mark Adams’ landscape photos

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A shot of the Pieces of Eight' hang in DPAG, with Thornburn on the left and Peebles on the right, and two Drivers in the far distance

Looking at Seventies Abstraction

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin

 

Pieces of Eight
Curated By Aaron Kreisler

 

8 October 2010 - 30 January 2011

 

Mini-survey in Dunedin

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Sara Hughes' Colour Codes installed at Gow Langsford

Hughes looks at websites

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Sara Hughes
Colour Codes

 

3 November - 27 November 2010

Interconnected works on online ‘financial’ colour


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Hemer in the Antoinette Godkin Gallery

Hemer in Auckland

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Andre Hemer

You can’t kill me, I’m notorious

 

3 November - 4 December 2010

Shimmering optical overload within pastel psychedelia

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Koki Tanaka, installation at ARTSPACE. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Intriguing ARTSPACE Group Show

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Dan Arps, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Kim Beom, Koki Tanaka
A rock that was taught it was a bird

 

16 October - 20 November 2010

The complex interaction between artists and things

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Installation shot of whoosh click heave at The Film Archive

Chapman, Forsyth and Hoyles

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Timothy Chapman/ Erin Forsyth/ Alexander Hoyles

whoosh click heave

 

21 November - 27 November 2010

Engaging video installation