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Book launch at Starkwhite
Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017
Starkwhite presented a group show at this year's edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (26-29 January 2017), with the generous support of Creative New Zealand. The artists in our line up were: Billy Apple, Martin Basher, Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Crooks, Richard Maloy, Laith McGregor, Seung Yul Oh and Michael Zavros.Image: Seung Yul O, Pok Po … Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017
Alicia Frankovich at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf
Coming up at Starkwhite
Rebecca Baumann in Superpositions at Artspace
Rebecca Baumann has been commissioned to make over Artspace Sydney by painting each gallery wall a different colour for the exhibition Superposition of three types which explores different approaches to colour abstraction. The exhibition opens on 10 February.Image: A253 Pea Green, one of the colours Rebecca Baumann is using at Artspace.
Laith McGregor awarded HIAP residency, Helsinki
Laith McGregor will take up a residency at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) this year. Founded in 1998, HIAP is the largest residency programme in the Nordic and Baltic region and the studios are on Suomenlinne Island, a world heritage site. McGregor's residency is funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.Image: Laith McGregor, … Laith McGregor awarded HIAP residency, Helsinki
Daniel Crooks video selected for Art Basel Hong Kong Film 2017
Daniel Crooks' video The Subtle Knife (2016) has been selected for the 2017 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong Film by curator Li Zenhua. The work was also exhibited at Starkwhite earlier this year in Daniel's first solo show with us titled Vanishing Point.Image: video still from Daniel Crooks' The Subtle Knife
Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017
Starkwhite will present a group show at Art Basel Hong Kong (2017) exploring various approaches to composing or choreographing color, motion and movement. It will feature the work of pioneer experimental filmmaker Len Lye (NZ/US), along with works by contemporary practitioners Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS/NZ) and Alicia Frankovich (DE/NZ), who are all represented by … Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017
Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017
We'll be presenting a group show at Art Los Angles Contemporary (26-29 March 2017), LA's international art fair. Our lineup includes: Billy Apple (NZ), Martin Basher NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS), Laith McGregor (AUS), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS). Our presentation is with the generous support of … Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017
Summer hours
Coming up at Starkwhite
Starkwhite presentS Beyond Landscape from 17 November to 17 December 2016. The exhibition explores approaches to landscape informed by place, culture and history, through the photographs of Danie Mellor (AUS), Jin Jiangbo (CN) and Gavin Hipkins (NZ).Image: Danie Mellor, on a noncorrelationist thought IX (2016), C-print on metallic paper, 80cm diameter
On the Origin of Art opens at MONA
Fiona Pardington is in the exhibition On the Orgin of Art which opens this weekend at the Museum of Old and New, Hobart. Her works are in a section curated by Brian Boyd, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, University of Auckland. Read more…Image: Fiona Pardington, Portrait of a life-cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa/New … On the Origin of Art opens at MONA
Walters Estate issues limited edition screen print
Recent acquisitions
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery (DPAG) has acquired Seung Yul Oh's interactive sculpture Periphery, seen here at Art Basel Hong Hong (2013) in the Encounters section curated by Yuko Hasegawa. The work also featured in the survey exhibition MOAMOA (2014) organised by the DPAG and the City Gallery Wellington.
Recent acquisitions
Two paintings from John Reynolds' recent exhibition WalkWithMe… have been acquired for the Chartwell Collection which is housed at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,Image: Unhinged Text (Dark Night) #1, 2016, acrylic paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 2100 x 1520 mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Fiona Pardington collaboration with Huia Wines
Coming up
John Reynolds: Field Notes
John Reynold's exhibition WalkWithMe… continues this week, closing Saturday 24 September. Upstairs we have a new suite of works from his ongoing exploration of Colin McCahon's missing hours. Read more…Image: John Reynolds, Field Notes 5 (2016), acrylic paint, acrylic paint stick and graphite on paper, field notes board.
Matt Henry: Analogues
Upstairs at Starkwhite we are showing Matt Henry's Analogues to 14 October. Previously shown at Goya Curtain in Tokyo, the works in the exhibition appropriate specific graphic motifs found in the artist’s collection of video and audio media. Image: Matt Henry, Psycho (2016), acrylic on linen, cedar stretcher, 382 x 468 mm
Anthony Byrt book launch
On Thursday 22 September, 5 -7.30pm, we are co-hosting with AUP the launch of Anthony Byrt’s new book THIS MODEL WORLD: TRAVELS TO THE EDGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, published by Auckland University Press. Anthony Byrt is an award-winning critic and journalist. He is a regular writer for Metro and contributes to leading international art magazines … Anthony Byrt book launch
Floor Talk: John Reynolds and Laurence Simmons
Rebecca Baumann: Once more with feeling at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre
Fiona Pardington at Parlour Projects
Fiona Pardington's Phantasma 2011 opens tonight at Parlour Projects and runs to 1 October 2016. Read more…Image: Fiona Pardington Trompette des Mortes/Craterellus cornucopiodes 2011, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, collection of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (Musee Baria) Nice, and Musee du Quai Branley, Paris,
Matt Henry: Long Division
Coming up at Starkwhite
In 1984 Colin McCahon tragically went missing on the eve of his survey exhibition I WILL NEED WORDS, staged as a satellite show of the 1984 Biennale of Sydney, In his new project WalkWithMe… John Reynolds speculated on the passible nature of those missing hours. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 30 August 6 – 8 … Coming up at Starkwhite
Recent acquisition: Michael Zavros' Bad Dad
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has purchased Michael Zavros' Bad Dad for the gallery's permanent collection. Considered to be one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings, Bad Dad was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales) and featured in the exhibition Bad Dad at Starkwhite in 2014 … Recent acquisition: Michael Zavros' Bad Dad
Recent acquisitions: John Reynolds AAG
Alicia Frankovich showing in TarraWarra Biennial
Starkwhite amongst world's best galleries
Gavin Hipkins at Christchurch Art Gallery
Cell Culture at the Suter Gallery
Jin Jiangbo at the National Art Museum of China
Laith McGregor at Gertrude Contemporary
Matt Henry's Long Division at the GBAG
Rebecca Baumann, Set in Motion, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Upstairs at Starkwhite
Daniel Crooks: Vanishing Point
Coming up at Starkwhite
The Analysis of Billy Apple's Genome
The Analysis of Billy Apple's Genome is running at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to 14 August. Developed by the artist and Dr Craig Hilton, it is an extension of The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® which has been staged at Starkwhite (Stage 1 and Stage 2) and also by Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong in 2013. Read more…