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Installation of Anne Noble's Ratanui 1978 /2021 upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Chattering Trees

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Anne Noble
Ratanui 1978 / 2021


12 August - 10 September 2022

Arboreal communication

JH
Suji Park, Meonji Soojibga | Dust Collector 2022, ceramic (mixed porcelain stoneware and local clays), glaze, ceramic paints and epoxy clay and resin, Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022. Photographer: Paul Chapman

Suji Park Terrace Installation

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Suji Park
Meonji Soojibga / Dust Collector



2 July, 2022 - 2 April, 2023

Painterly highly textured ceramics

JH
Elsewhere and nowhere else, 2022 (installation view) curated by Vera Mey. Left: Kah Bee Chow, Portals, 2022. Right: Yuk King Tan, Eternity Screen, 2019, photo by Sam Hartnett

What’s There Is Here Too

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga


Kah Bee Chow, Li Ming Hu, Yuk King Tan
Elsewhere and Nowhere Else


12 June — 4 September 2022

 

What is not here is not there either

JH
Jennifer Mason, Four Figures, 2021, oil on board (framed) 1170 × 1730 mm

Pondering Mason’s Prone, Supine & Recumbent Nudes

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jennifer Mason
Wholeness, Harmony and Radiance


27 July - 20 August 2022

 

Horizontal with gravitas

JH
Gary McMillan: Scene 52, 2022, acrylic on linen, 65.5 x 86.5 cm; Scene 49, 2021, acrylic on Bristol Board, 51.5 x 62.8 cm

Gary McMillan Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Gary McMillan
Outside

 

21 July - 20 August 2022

Meteorological and urban

JH
Seung Yul Oh: Huggong-Monologue, 2022, installation, 150 mm diameter x 100 metres long; Bowl, 2022, 2K paint on aluminium, 102 x 121 x 24 cm

Seung Yul Oh Installation, Paintings, and Sculpture

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Seung Yul Oh
Huggong-Monologue

 

9 July - 13 August 2022

Characteristically witty and inventive

JH
Jae Hoon Lee, Sunset in Muriwai, 2022, chromira on matt, 1200 x 1824 mm.

Jae Hoon Lee’s Maritime Landscapes

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Jae Hoon Lee
CAUSE AND EFFECT


2 July 2022—30 July 2022

Pulsing liquid energy throughout

JH
Installation shot of Leigh Martin's Wasabi Sunrise exhibition at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Leigh Martin’s Glossy Resin Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Leigh Martin

Wasabi Sunrise


8 July - 6 August 2022

Dark textures & strokes in deep space

JH
Gilbert & George, The Tamaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition 2022, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022. Photography Jennifer French, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The work in the middle is IN THE MIND OF THE BEHOLDER, 2008.

Gilbert & George: Resisting Control

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Gilbert & George
The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition


2 July - 11 September 2022

Examining ‘Britishness’ in a London setting—but brought here

JH
Two contributions to The Confessions: Patricia Piccinini in Silo 5, and in the distant Silo 6, Monique Lacey.

Bridging Over Time

Scott Lawrie @ Silo 6

Downtown Auckland

 

Inga Fillary, Amadeo Grosman, Rebecca Hazard, Monique Lacey, Patricia Piccinini, Rebecca Wallis
The Confessions

10 July - 23 July 2022

Conceptual parallels?

JH
Installation of Noel Ivanoff's Stem to Stern exhibition at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Noel Ivanoff’s Unfrenetic Finger Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Noel Ivanoff
Stem to Stern


8 July - 6 August 2022

Intricate spatial subtlety

JH
Deanna Dowling, Concrete probabilities, 2022, fabric, concrete (aggregate and trace seawater, collected from seawalls). Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Inoculation by Contact or Memory

Te Tuhi Project Wall

Pakuranga

 

Deanna Dowling
Concrete Probabilities


12 June - 4 September 2022

‘Homeopathy’ within the ocean

JH
Robert Rapson, Against the Tide, 2022, a detailed installation view at Te Uru; courtesy of the artist and Te Uru. Photograph by Sam Hartnett

Expressionist ships and wobbly buildings

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Robert Rapson

 

Against the Tide

 

11 June - 7 August 2022

Putative ‘Outsider Artist’

JH
Gerold Miller, set 456, 2018, lacquered aluminium, 250 x 200 x 10.80 cm

Body to the Left; Mind to the Right

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Gerold Miller
Monoform


1 June - 2 July 2022

Gerold Miller’s dualistic split

JH
Installation view of Matt Henry's exhibition 'Double Grammar Zone' at PHOTO OP.

Matt Henry Photographs

PHOTO OP.

Auckland

 

Matt Henry
Double Grammar Zone


4 June - 2 July 2022

Ambiguous tampered-with signage

JH
Installation shot of Ornamental Friends as displayed in Season.

The Pleasures of Cross-Discipline Hybridity

SEASON

Auckland

 

Hamish Coleman; Maia McDonald, Lucy Meyle, Moniek Schrijer, Sanuel Te Kani

Ornamental Friends


19 May - 11 June 2022

Third Season show

JH
Installation detail of Richard Killeen's Multiplicity exhibition at Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Killeen’s Multiple Alignments

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Multiplicity


5 May 2020 - 4 June 2020

Image collections, each with four possible ‘narratives’

JH
Still from Hye Rim Lee, Black Rose, 2021, HD 3D animated video, 05:20 min

Spectacular Hye Rim Lee Animation

In Scott Lawrie's stockroom show

Auckland

 

Hye Rim Lee
Black Rose video


7 May - 28 May 2022

Overwhelming colour and texture

JH
Bill Henson, Untitled, #2/75, 1990-91, from the series Paris Opera Project, Archival inkjet pigment print, 142 x 127 cm

Henson’s Fascination with Light & Interiority

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Bill Henson
Selected Works


6 May - 29 May 2022

Portraits and landscapes

JH
Installation of Clare Brodie's 'Elusive Forms' at Scott Lawrie Gallery.

Treescape Abstractions

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland


Clare Brodie
Elusive Forms


7 May - 28 May 2022

Brodie’s botanical shapes

JH
Marie Shannon, Bedroom Window Still Life, 2021, digital inkjet print on Ilford Galerie Prestige 310gsm, 608 x 760 mm unframed. 855 x 995 mm framed.

Light Through and On Surface

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Marie Shannon
Sleeping Near the River + New Works

 

20 April - 11 June 2022

 

Shannon’s Whanganui Project

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