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February 2010 I Max Gimblett, Guest Lecturer at The Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery 13th Walter Auburn Memorial Lecture
The Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery present the 13th Walter Auburn Memorial Lecture. Dr Walter Auburn was an outstanding man who freely gave his time and expertise as an honorary adviser to the print collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for many years. The Friends recognise Dr Auburns role in the development of the Gallery with a biennial event, where a distinguished speaker is invited to give the Walter Auburn Memorial Lecture.
The 2010 lecture will be given by eminent New York based New Zealand artist Max Gimblett. In his lecture titled West Approaches East - My Response to The Third Mind, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Max will discuss the influences of moving countries; on Walter Auburns life and Maxs own life as he journeyed away from New Zealand to America and travelling back to New Zealand.
Monday 1st March
6.15pm for a 6.30pm start
Venue: AUT WA 220 Lecture Theatre, WA Block, Main Entrance AUT, Wellesley Street.
Bookings essential (there will be no door sales)
Friends $20. Student members $15. Non Members $30.
Credit card bookings available from the Friends Secretary. Ph: 09 3077705
(image: Gimblett, Coral Bay, 2008)
January 2010 I Max Gimblett in EXCHANGE at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art
Exchange explores collaboration as the means to transfer ideas and generate new modes of thinking. This exhibition series will feature diverse collaborative approaches including the joining of arts and letters, the merging of the physical boundaries of the human body, institutional collaboration, and a project requiring the participation of ICA visitors. These projects manifest as collaborations between individuals, groups, and institutions traversing subjects as broad as oil politics, the history of optics, Zen practice and personal space.
In the Lunder Gallery animal dreaming highlights an ongoing collaboration between painter Max Gimblett and poet and cultural critic Lewis Hyde. Inspired by their shared interest in Buddhist practice, Hyde and Gimblett have created a series of works on paper and artist books. animal dreaming features works spanning their twenty years of collaboration and debuts a new series of paintings made for the ICA.
The exhibition runs 20 January - 11 April, 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. For further information see here.
Image : Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett, Fish Forget Trap, plaster, epoxy, oil-based silkscreen ink, copper leaf, acrylic and vinyl polymers, wood panel, 2009
Max Gimblett and his work in the Guggenheim Museum was featured on TVNZ's Close Up this month. View Gimblett Goes to Guggenheim online here.
May 2009 I FISHWORKS a collaborative project by Max Gimblett and Alan Loney
Artist Max Gimblett and Poet Alan Loney have joined forces to create FISHWORKS an exquisitely delicate publication of poems and drawings that reflect each artists talents.
When Alan Loney visited Gimblett in his New York studio in 2005 he was so intrigued with the artists set of lunar / sea creature paintings that he composed nine poems in response to them. In turn, Gimblett responded to the set of poems by creating a set of nine drawings to accompany the writing in a possible publication. That publication has turned into FISHWORKS. The nine drawings are printed in a variety of colours, with each poem printed over the metallic ink drawing and with a forward by respected artist and critic John Yau.
The edition of 80 signed and numbered books is divided into 30 deluxe copies (15 for sale) encased in a yellow cloth spine with gold paste-paper over boards in a red cloth-covered slipcase, and 50 standard copies (45 for sale) in yellow cloth spine with red cloth over boards. Each deluxe copy includes one original Gimblett drawing bound in. The deluxe edition is NZ$2,000 per book and the standard edition is NZ$750 per book.
Orders should be sent to Dr. Peter Simpson, Director, The Holloway Press, c/- English Department, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand, or by email to p.simpson@auckland.ac.nz. Cheques should be made out to The University of Auckland.
The book is designed and printed by Alan Loney at Carolyn Fraser's Idlewild Press in Melbourne, Australia, on a Vandercook cylinder press on damped BFK Rives and Magnani papers. Types are Dante and Castellar, and paste paper for the deluxe copies is by Claire Maziarczyk in New York. The drawings are reproduced from photopolymer plates made by Boxcar Press in Syracuse, New York, and the binding is executed by Wolfgang Schaefer in Melbourne.
Alan Loney's recent poetry books include Day's Eye, Rubicon Press, Edmonton, Canada 2008, and Nowhere to go & other poems, Five Islands Press, Melbourne 2007. Max Gimblett's work was recently included in The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and his exhibition full fathom five at Gow Langsford Gallery.
IMAGE: Gimblett Fish Dreaming 2004
April 2009 I Max Gimblett in MINDFOOD Online
On the occasion of showing at the Guggenheim as part of the exhibition "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989", New York-based, New Zealand artist Max Gimblett talks to MiNDFOOD about life in the big apple.
17. 02. 2009 I Max Gimblett featured in Dogs of Auckland
This year's Auckland Festival 2009 is offering a visual arts / performance crossover package, integrating visual and performance art to create a series of extraordinary productions. Dogs of Auckland is a cross-media show, featuring musicians, poetry, and projected visuals by artists including Max Gimblett, Len Lye, Billy Apple and John Reynolds. Limited to two performances only, the show dates are: Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 March, Festival Club, Red Square. For more information about the show or other cross-over packages being offered by the Auckland Festival go to: www.aucklandfestival.co.nz
22. 01. 09 I Max Gimblett at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Work by Max Gimblett can be seen this Janurary at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia , 1860-1989, considers the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literature, music, and philosophical concepts on American art. Curated by Alexandra Munroe, approximately 270 Works by 100 Artists and Literary Figures make up the exhibition. Also featured are Live Performances by Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, and Robert Wilson. Max Gimblett will be leading a Sumi Ink Painting Workshop on Saturday March 7, 10am - 1pm. This special workshop begins with an exhibition tour followed by a studio session using traditional handmade paper, sumi ink, and Asian brushes. No previous experience necessary. For more information or to book, contact the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Exhibition: The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia , 1860-1989
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
Dates: January 30 - April 19, 2009
Preview: Thursday, January 29, 10AM - 1PM
Sumi Ink Painting Workshop on Saturday March 7, 10am - 1pm
27.08.08 I Max Gimblett and Judy Millar in Edges of Darkness
Max Gimblett and Judy Millar have been included in a group exhibition at Hamish Morrison Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Edges of Darkness showcases artists working from various different aesthetic angles using black. From artists whose names are synonymous with black such as Ad Reinahrdt, to others, most strikingly the Spanish painter Prudencio Irazabal, whose focus has been the antithesis to black - light and colour. As the title suggests, rather than a severe, minimilist or monochromatic standpoint it is a colourful exhibition of black, encompassing the glassy reflective and charred black depths of the tar sculpture from the Viennese artist-group Mahony, to the myriad tonings to be found in the canvases of Jrg Scheibe or Ronald de Bloeme. Both New Zealand artists have achieved significant success this year with Max Gimblett being chosen to exhibit in American Art and the East in New York 2009 and Judy Millar chosen as one of two NZ representatives for the prestigious Venice Biennale 2009.
5th September - 25th October 2008
20.05.08 I Max Gimblett gifts artworks to Auckland City Art Gallery contd...
Max Gimblett says he and Barbara are honoured to gift the works of art to the foundation to demonstrate their support of the development of the gallery’s main building. “Barbara and I recognise the importance of a creative and healthy gallery. This gift shows our support for the role of the foundation in strengthening the gallery’s position as the leading art museum in New Zealand,” says Gimblett. Gimblett, who has lived in the United States since the mid 1960s and exhibited widely in New Zealand and abroad, is gifting key works from the last 40 years of his artistic practice. Auckland Art Gallery’s curator of contemporary art, Natasha Conland worked closely with Gimblett at his studio in the Bowery, New York, to select the 51 works on paper that make up the gift. “This collection captures the extraordinary range in Gimblett’s artistic temperament from his early portraiture to his achievements with abstract form and a long-standing exploration of Zen calligraphic technique. “Most of all this collection reveals the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity to the very materials of art, especially ink, paper and pencil,” says Conland. A number of key works from the gift will be included in the new collection displays that will be the feature of the newly developed main gallery building in late 2010. The art works will be formally gifted to the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation at a special event attended by Max Gimblett, foundation chairperson John Judge, Auckland city Mayor Hon. John Banks and gallery director Chris Saines in the Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday, 21 May at 6pm.
For more information: Eran Donders Communications coordinator, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Phone: +64 9 307 7706, Mobile 027 291 9953 Email: eran.donders@aucklandcity.govt.nz
26.03.08 I Max Gimblett to exhibit at Guggenheim, New York
Max Gimblett will show work in American Art and the East curated by Alexandra Munroe. The Exhibition opens at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in February 2009 as a centerpiece of the museum's 50th Anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright building. American Art and the East is a masterpiece show featuring works by canonical figures of the 20th century and leading younger artists working today. The exhibition will travel to the West Coast, Asia, and Europe through 2010. A fully illustrated, 475 page catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Edited with an introduction by exhibition curator Alexandra Munroe, it will be the first comprehensive study of the influence of Asian aesthetics and philosophy on modern and contemporary art.
26.03.08 I Max Gimblett in Mindfood Magzine
Max Gimblett will feature in issue 3 of Mindfood Magazine due for publication on May 12. Max was recently interviewed by Donna Duggan, associate editor of the magazine at his New York studio.
Max Gimblett at the Asian Art Fair
Max Gimblett has been selected for the exhibition Simulasian at the November Inaugural Asian Art Fair in New York City, curated by Eric Shiner and Lilly Wei. From November 3, Gimblett will also exhibit in Brush meets Brush, at the San Francisco Zen Center. The ink painting on exhibition is a collaborative work with the zen monk Great Dragon - an influential teacher under which Gimblett has studied.
Max Gimblett, Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries
Max Gimblett will be the inaugural honorary Visiting Professor of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand and will be teaching there in May 2008