Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
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Five in one RM
Auckland
Milan Haber, Ian Jervis, Joanna Chow, Mathew McConnell, Helen Broome
17 June - 3 July 2010
A characteristically low key show that deserves a close look
Nixon’s Two-Panelled Paintings
Auckland
John Nixon
EPW: Polychrome
22 June - 17 July 2010
Continuing John Nixon’s ongoing project: Experimental Painting Workshop
White Sock Wearers of the World Unite
Auckland
Alex Vivian
dog/ younger for older/ catcher/ tube socks. (ewok, kyote, baby fred flinstone, scamp, Quix Bunny in the rye.)
11 June - 3 July 2010
A clever show with its calculated and salacious ambiguities and exploration of casually made sculptural form.
Nuala Gregory Book and Installation
Auckland
Nuala Gregory
Exploded View
4 June - 17 July 2010
An installation of lithograghs and collages that attempts to deconstruct painting
Lonnie Hutchinson at Artstation
Auckland
Lonnie Hutchinson
Black Star
23 June - 10 July 2010
Flickering delicate patterns, marching vertical vectors and rich underpinning concepts
Realistic Sculptures or Abstract Paintings?
Auckland
Matt Henry
Contraflow
21 June - 17 July 2010
Teasing out of similarities between abstraction and domestic equipment
Critical Remarks on the National and International Question
et al. publication
Critical Remarks on the National Question
Texts by Lenin, Marx, et al., Bryant, Hay and others
Concept and design: Narrow Gauge
An artwork on its own - outside of the installation it is documenting
Glass’s Piscine Portraits
Auckland
Darren Glass
Every Fish I Caught
3 June - 26 June 2010
A series of images of various sea fish caught with a rod off rocks in Northland.
Gardner Photographs
Auckland
Andrea Gardner
A Warm Afternoon Between Fact and Fiction
27 May - 19 June 2010
Nine coloured photographs based on dioramas the artist has set up in her studio using old paintings of idyllic landscapes as backdrops.
Sculpture at Window
Auckland
Antony Densham
Lost Time
9 June - 24 June 2010
This artist is particularly interested in the notion of fluidity and how nature over time destroys fixity, no matter how solid.
Facing The Future
Auckland
Roberta Thornley
Tomorrow
8 June - 3 July 2010
Carefully constructed images that are hauntingly mysterious and thoughtful in their exploration of character and stages of life.
Excellent Albrecht But..
Auckland
Gretchen Albrecht
Roses in the Snow
25 May - 19 June 2010
They are still very characteristically ‘Albrecht’, and good as they are, she needs to radically reinvent her ‘brand’
Muse-struck Photography
Auckland
Patrick Reynolds
Say Yes
8 June - 12 June 2010
Lusty images with a formal dynamic that buys into desire as spatial metaphor
Phrenology in the Pacific
Auckland
Fiona Pardington
Ahua: A Beautiful Hesitation (downstairs) The Language of Skulls (upstairs)
24 May - 3 July 2010
The best kind of ‘history show’ where the viewer is mentally transported.
Madden Wall and Perspex Collages
Auckland
Peter Madden
An Exploding Crystal Cave Freezes Time (telegraphing polymorphic rainbows into the mouths of the mute)
19 May - 19 June 2010
The artist here is testing new approaches with coloured planar fields and distinctly demarcated zones
Jesus Faust
Auckland
Gavin Hipkins
Bible Studies (New Testament)
16 May - 12 June 2010
The semantic juxtapositions within these semioticly complex photographs are particularly clever and rich in nuance.
When Botticelli sailed to Taranaki
Auckland
Roger Mortimer
Hapuku Lodge
26 May - 19 June 2010
An allegorical scrambling of time and geography that pushes at the limits of the human imagination.
Nicely painted ceramics; dull canvases
Auckland
Tony Lane
Lucent
12 May - 5 June 2010
Delicately painted and nuanced ceramic jugs versus paintings on linen that seem coarse and clumsy.
The Art Factory Now
Auckland
Farocki, Gillick, Hsieh, Jack, Mitch, Mohammad, Munoz, Newby.
post-Office
15 May - 26 June 2010
The title is a multi-levelled pun as the venue is on a site where there was a post-office in the 70s.
Flayed, Neatly Folded and Hung Out to Dry
Auckland
Helen Calder
Polychrome
18 May - 12 June 2010
These colourful tactile works fascinate with their portability as consumer items
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