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JH
The Pah Homestead at 72 Hillsborough Ave.

The Wallace Collection’s New Home

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Auckland

 

19th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2010
Curated by Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith

 

7 September - 3 October 2010

Glorious building….too bad about the art

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Michael Harrison, Fuel to the Fire, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 240 x 330 mm

Small Harrison Canvases

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Michael Harrison
A Slave to Your Secret

 

25 August - 18 September 2010

Collecting sticks in the woods for cooking fires

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Invitation image

Shopping Both Sides of the Ditch

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Daniel Munn
resene lochmara 250ml, dulux sea foam half 250ml, dulux golden passionfruit 250ml, glass tumbler 220ml duralex provence, diggers metho 1l…

 

1 September - 24 September 2010

Comparing Oz and NZ merchandise


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A section of the image on the invitation

Lacey Video and Sculpture

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Sonya Lacey
Falling or almost falling

 

25 August - 25 September 2010

Uber-understated, cool installation

JH
Jar signage

New Show in Kingsland’s Jar

JAR

Auckland

 

Leigh Davis

Flag Poems: Time, Text and Echoes

 

July 2010 - May 2011

Fascinating flags superbly displayed in an airless gallery - to be seen outside

JH
Lance Pearce at RM

Anti-Teaching Aids

RM

Auckland

 

Lance Pearce
I know very well… but all the same

 

19 August - 4 September 2010

Undermining art educational practices and the values they perpetuate


JH
Noel Ivanoff, Skin Cradles at Two Rooms

Painting as Epiderm or Baby

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff

Skin Cradles

 

13 August - 4 September 2010

Three types of painting / sculpture from Noel Ivanoff

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Simon Morris, Daily Paintings at Two Rooms

Eight Days A Week

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Simon Morris
Daily Paintings

 

13 August - 4 September 2010

 

 

Diurnal pigment accumulations for an optical pulse

JH
Dale Frank, My lips are sealed Danish Silver consumed in minutes, 2010, varnish on linen, 2000 x 2000 mm

Sumptuous and Delicately Intricate Frank

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Dale Frank
Recent Paintings

 

11 August - 5 September 2010

Drawing and patterning with coloured varnish


JH
Ralph Paine, The Logic of Capitalism, collage, acrylic, pencil on paper, 940 x 1340 mm

Collage and Drawing as Political / Economic Concept

GAMBIA CASTLE

Auckland

 

Ralph Paine
In the Hills Near Fabriano and other works


6 August - 28 August 2010

The fire-breathing spectre of Capitalism

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Esther Leigh, Idle Fleet #9, 2010, Sellotape drawing

Esther Leigh’s Sellotape Drawings

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Esther Leigh
Idle Fleet

 

11 August - 4 September 2010

Continuing and mysterious explorations of translucency, edge definition, reflection and opacity.

JH
Regent (1987) on the end wall,  The Empty Endeavour on the wall on the right, Untitled (O) (1990-92) and Untitled (Slides 6-25) 1980-90 om the wall on the left, and Untitled (The Painter's Mistake) on the floor. Photo by Sam Hartnett

The Art Life

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian Dashper
Professional Practice

 

23 July - 28 August 2010

A compacted selection from Julian Dashper’s art corpus


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Gavin Hurley, Thoughtful Young Man III, 2010, paper collage, 480 x 360 mm.

Thoughtful Schoolboys From Hurley

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Gavin Hurley
Baad/Good Grammar

 

4 August - 28 August 2010

Collages and oils from this Auckland artist

JH
jae Hoon Lee, A Garden, digital photograph, image courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite

Digitalised Photographs from Jae Hoon Lee

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jae Hoon Lee
Ground Zero
27 July - 21 August 2010

Tweaked and reassembled images from Annapurna and elsewhere

JH
Jess Johnson, No Wuck Truka, part of her installation at ARTSPACE.

Infusing Fresh Blood

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Cooper, Garratt, Harris, Johnson, Leatinu’u, Satherley, Singh

Knowing You Knowing Me: New Artists
Curated by Emma Bugden

 

10 July - 21 August 2010

Introducing new national talent to an Auckland audience


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Part of the Fiona Pardington display in the MCA, Sydney

The Eight New Zealanders in the Sydney Biennale

17th Biennale of Sydney

The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age


Directed and curated by David Elliott


12 May - 1 August 2010

Kiwi contingent in Australia

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Eddie Clemens, Delusional Architecture, 2009, conduit piping, conduit clips, LEDs, grey audio cable, tee and elbow joiners, nylon cable ties, customised circuit boards and programming.

Clemens Pulses at Crockford’s

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Eddie Clemens
Delusional Architecture

 

20 July - 14 August 2010

Light emitting brooms, fences and trolleys, with air-blowing bottles

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Paul Cullen, Geographer (2), 1995, metal chair, world globe, motor and electric cord. 700 x 800 x 600 mm. Image courtesy of the artist and Jane Sanders.

Motorised Cullen

JANE SANDERS ART AGENT

Auckland

 

Paul Cullen
Revolutions Per Minute


21 July - 21 August 2010

A selection of enigmatic sculptures with looping liquids and rotating objects


JH
Kah Bee Chow, Harshmellow at Window

Kah Bee Chow at Window

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Kah Bee Chow
Harshmellow

 

28 July - 19 August 2010

A meditation on layered transparency and reflection.

JH

Walters Prize Time

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

2010 Walters Prize

Finalists: Arps, Connor, Leek, Monteith

 

24 July - 31 October 2010

This year’s four Kiwi finalists compete - with style - for the $50,000.

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Matthew Browne, Pages From a Life, 2010,  pencil, vinyl tempera and oilstick on 21 canvases, 40 x 200 mm each, 1550 x 2780 overall. Image courtesy the artist and Artis

Cartoonish Abstractions of Matthew Browne

ARTIS Gallery

Auckland

 

Matthew Browne
See Visions and Dream Dreams

 

30 June - 24 July 2010

Where abstract forms mimick Disneyish animation