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Installation shot of Simon Ingram's exhibition, 'Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension' at Gow Langsford, Auckland Tamaki Makaurau.

Open Interpretation on Offer

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

 

Simon Ingram
Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension



8 August 2023 - 26 August 2023

Exploring pareidolia

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Ann Shelton, 'i am an old phenomenon' (2022–ongoing). Pigment prints, handmade cedar stands. Courtesy the artist and Two Rooms, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Witches, Female Shamans and Chemical Aids

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

International Group show

She Would Lie on her Back and Sink

 

3 June - 26 August 2023

An alternative to Christianity

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Denis O'Connor, Pencil Sharpener, 2022, wooden ruler, carved pigmented Welsh slate, 200 x 255 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett, courtesy of Two Rooms

Seductive Ersatz Metonymy & Denis O’Connor

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Denis O’Connor
Lucken’s Margin


21 July - 19 August 2023

Static painted slices from recalled narratives


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Michael Shepherd, 1914, 2021, acrylic on board, 750 x 900 mm.

Michael Shepherd’s Stay in Otago

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Michael Shepherd
Gond


21 July - 19 August 2023

Even incorporating plant and insect parts

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Denise Batchelor, Maureen Lander & Stìobhan Lothian, Ngaru Paewhenua, 2023, dried harakeke strips, single-channel video and sound, commissioned by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Climate Crisis Exhibition at Pakuranga

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland


International Group show
Huaere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear


Gallery presentation: 4 June 2023 - 5 August 2023

Gallery addition to online version

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Jan Albers: suntOOth, 2021, bronze, 80 x 40 x 10 cm; rEdEdgE, 2023, spray paint on polystyrene and wood in acrylic glass box, 170 x 120 cm

Hot Chunky ‘Concrete’ with Incandescent ‘Crystals’

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Jan Albers
rEdEdgE

 


18 July - 19 August 2023

Glowing light from ‘internal’ heat or reflected surfaces


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Rosemary Mayer, Midwinter Ghost, 1980-1981/2023, new sculpture created by the estate of Rosemary Mayer, paper, ribbons, cords, wooden rods, metallic paint,  watercolour pastel,  193 x 259 x 284.5 cm. Photo: Andreas Mϋller

Processual Notations for Body Parts, Traces or Coverings

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Altin, Charan, Hopf, Lertxundi, Mayer

Scores for Transformation

 

24 June -18 August 2023

International group show

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Installation of Jan van der Ploeg's Homage to the Circle, at Sumer, 2023.

Van der Ploeg at Sumer

SUMER

Auckland

 

Jan van der Ploeg
Homage to the Circle

 


5 July - 29 July 2023

Canvases and wall paintings

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Robin Neate, Gloria Grahame, 2013, oil on canvas, 1830 x 1365 mm

‘Hollywood-Canterbury’ & ‘French’ Abstractions

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Robin Neate
Ray & The Other Yesterdays


5 July - 29 July 2023

Robin Neate’s hybrid allusions


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Dusky Sound / Tamatea Revisited

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Mark Adams, Darren Glass, Ian Macdonald, Haru Sameshima
Tamatea—Dusky Sound 1995


9 June -15 July 2023

Old photographic technologies reutilised

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Still from Ufuoso Essi's forty-one minute long film on Black congretational communities in London and Philadelphia, Is My Living in Vain. Currently screening at Te Uru.

Trans-Atlantic Celebration of Gospel Music & Its Ethos

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Ufuoma Essi
Is My Living in Vain


13 May 2023 - 23 July 2023

Strategies of Black evangelical survival

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Installation of Rozana Lee's Cages of Memories series at Te Uru.

Cultural Osmosis, or the Opposite, a Non-Absorbent Identity?

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rozana Lee
Sekali pendatang, tetap pendatang


18 March - 30 July 2023

Wavering between the two


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John B Turner:  Paul Hartigan and Ron Brownson visiting the exhibition of my work at the Bowerbank Ninow Gallery, 10 Lorne Street, Auckland CBD, 30 January 2020

A Thorough Look at Archiving Photographs

Auckland


John B. Turner


New Zealand’s Photo Treasures Heading For the Tip?

Detailed John Turner discussions

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Installation of Jonny Niesche's 'You Say Sfumato, and I Say Sfumato', at Starkwhite, Auckland.

Immersive Hazes & Flickering Horizons

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Jonny Niesche
You say Sfumato, I say Sfumato



12 May 2023 - 10 July 2023

Beckoning spaces beyond the gallery

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Brent Harris, The Other Side, curated by Jane Devery, as installed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Pop Art with Trauma

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Brent Harris
The Other Side


6 May 2023 - 17 September 2023

Brilliant Brent Harris survey


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Colonial Road, installation view, Pah Homestead, Auckland. Photo: Arekahānara

Mokopōpaki Trio on Birkenhead History and Ornithology

Pah Homestead (AV Gallery, Little Gallery, Conservatory)

Auckland

 

A.A.M. Bos, Carole Prentice, Dr P
Colonial Road

 

20 April - 2 July 2023

Separated but overlapping displays

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First performance at the Audio Foundation organised by Ivan Mršić for !0 May, with Phil Dadson, Maurice Reviol and Darren Hannah. Photo: Ivan Mršić

Mršić / Vitamin S Collaborations

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Ivan Mršić and Vitamin S
Read Me as You Wish

 

18 April 2023 - 13 May 2023

Perhaps contradictory methodologies

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Photo by Mike Glover

Ian Hunter & ANZART

Ian Hunter obituary

A spirit now lacking in art


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Olafur Eliasson, Yellow versus Purple, 2003. Tate: Purchased with funds provided by the 2003 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2003. Photo: Tate.

The Tate’s Light Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Touring international collection show supplemented by a few works from Auckland collections.

Light from the Tate: the 1700s until now

1st March, 2023 - 25 May, 2023

Mixture of art methodologies

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Peter Robinson, Die Cuts and Derivations, 2015. Cut wool felt. Private collection.

Presenting Installation as Drawing

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

Peter Robinson, and 25 artists represented in the CAG Collection
Die Cuts and Derivations


11 March 2023 - 2 July 2023

What is a mark? What is a space?

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John Bailey, Notes for the well-tuned piano, 2021, flash and charcoal on paper, 850 x 650 mm (framed dimension)

Sneakily Subversive Bailey?

SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Bailey
GYMNOSPHERE / Notes for the well-tuned piano


25 March 2023 - 8 April 2023

Interpretatively enigmatic formalism