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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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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

JH
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

JH
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


JH
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?

JH
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

JH
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