March 2010
March 2010 / Judy Millar at Te Papa
Judy Millar's Giraffe-Bottle-Gun is now on show at Te Papa Tongarewa. In association with Creative New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa has brought back New Zealand's 2009 Venice Biennale installations - Millar's Giraffe-Bottle-Gun and Upritchard's Save Yourself for the public of New Zealand to enjoy. The exhibitions are free and can be seen on the 5th floor of the museum from 26 February to 15 August 2010. For more information on visiting the show see Te Papa Tongarewa's website. 
March 2010 / New Editions by Dick Frizzell
Gow Langsford has two new editioned works by Dick Frizzell available. All Square in Love and War and Red Haring VI use Frizzell's iconic Grocer and Haring tiki images. See here for all available editioned works by Frizzell. Purchase any of these three Frizzell editions this month and get a 10% discount off the unframed price.
(Images left to right: All Square in Love, War and Red Haring VI)
Sara Hughes' For Kultur opens next Friday at the Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery. See here for more information.
March 2010 / Karl Maughan works
New works by Karl Maughan now available. Left Clearview, Right Tuturewa, each 1370 x 1370 mm. Contact to enquire.
February 2010 / Recently arrived 
Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to offer Julian Schnabel's Flamingo I (1991). Contact to enquire about this work. (image: Schnabel, Flamingo I)
February 2010 / Reuben Paterson announced in Sydney Biennale line up
Reuben Paterson will exhibit at the 17th Biennale of Sydney opening in May. Paterson will show nine commissioned works which respond to the heritage site of a Military Officer's guardhouse and residence on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. See here for more information on the Biennale.
February 2010 / Nova Paul at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Nova Paul's film Pink and White Terraces, shown at Gow Langsford in 2008, is currently on show at Whitechapel Gallery in London.
This exhibition is part of Art in the Auditorium, a collaborative project organised by the Whitechapel Gallery with institutions from Europe, Asia, South America and the US to provide a showcase for the work of some of the most exciting young artists working with film, video and animation today. Her film is one of two works included in the show, the other by Berlin Based Charly Nijensohns. For more information on the exhibition see here.
Pink and White Terraces was shown in 2008 along with a series of editioned film stills. A limited number of these related works are available for purchase. Contact Anna Jackson to enquire. (image: Paul, Film Still 14)
February 2010 / New Works by Max Gimblett
We have just received new works from Max Gimblett's studio in New York. Please contact us for images of available new works. (image: Gimblett, Night of the Books, 2009)
February 2010 / Last days for Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens
This weekend is the chance to see David McCracken's work in Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens and works from Paul Dibble's Geometric Figure series at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. For opening hours and directions see the Auckland Botanic Gardens website. (image: McCracken, The Land is Slowly Liquid, 2009)
February 2010 / David McCracken, Gregor Kregar and Paul Dibble at Cable Bay Vineyards
An excellent excuse to enjoy the summer days at Waiheke! The Cable Bay Summer Sculpture exhibition including works by David McCracken, Gregor Kregar and Paul Dibble is still on show at Cable Bay Vineyards. For opening times and information on visiting the show, please contact Cable Bay Vineyards. (image: Dibble, Tui-ee-ee, 2009)
February 2010 / Judy Millar at Te Papa
New Zealanders have the chance to see works from Judy Millars exhibition Venice Biennale exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun at Te Papa. New Zealand at the Venice Biennale opens to the public on the 26th of this month and includes works from by Millar and Francis Upritchard. For more information see Te Papas website.
February 2010 / 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 Auburn's 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 Max's 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 / Reuben Paterson in Asia Pacific Triennial NZ Herald review
Andrew Clifford looks at the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial in this weekend's Herald and features an image of Reuben Paterson's Whakapapa: Get Down On Your Knees. Read the full article here.
February 2010 / Sara Hughes' For Kultur at Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Sara Hughes' For Kultur opens in early March at the Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery.
"Museums and Art Galleries are the holders of our histories and meanings; preserving cultures and civilisations as time passes. The way in which collections develop has an influence on our understanding of both the past and the present. These ideas come together in For Kultur, an ambitious exhibition by leading contemporary artist Sara Hughes. Hughes has been working closely with the HBMAG team, researching the collection and developing a new installation that draws on some of treasures of the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust collection." (sourced from HBMAG newsletter)
For Kultur is on 12 March - 27 June 2010. See the Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery website for opening times.
January 2010 / Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2010
Gow Langsford Gallery gets a generous mention in the current Art Asia Pacific Almanac. The issue takes a focussed look at contemporary art, markets and trends from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. The writer notes Gow Langsford as a stand out member of the newly formed Auckland Art Precinct and includes a large image of John Pule's painting First Day on Earth. Read the full article online here or click to download. 
January 2010 / David McCracken at Connells Bay Sculpture Park.
January 2010 / TAG: James Cousins and Simon Ingram reviewed in Art Forum online
It is rare that international critics head this far into the South Pacific so we are especially pleased that our current exhibition TAG is reviewed in ARTFORUM online.
New York based critic Michael Wilson writes "Ranged around the space in ones and twos, the diminutive panels perform a variety of material and compositional stunts, the paired artists' contributions interacting neatly with each other to the degree that they nearly appear as products of a single hand. All the pictures make use of intense color, Cousins adding the counterpoint of allover textural effects, while Ingram relies on simple, linear brushwork." Read the full review online here or down load.
January 2010 / 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
December 2009 / Reuben Paterson at 6th Asia Pacific Triennial
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial includes a major work by gallery artist Reuben Paterson. Paterson has created a colossal work specifically for the exhibition. Titled Whakapapa: Get Down on Your Knees (2009) the eight metre squared painting brings together iconography from many bodies of work using his glitterdust technique.
6th Asia Pacific Triennial: Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery. Opening weekend 5 - 6 December. Runs through 5 April 2010.
Check out Reuben Paterson's Whakapapa: Get Down on Your Knees on the cover of the current Issue of Art & Australia. Gregor Kregar's work is featured on the back cover as winner of the Summer 2009 ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award. Dick Frizzell's Car Crash also features on the Summer issue of Artnews.
December 2009 / Congratulations to Gregor Kregar
Gregor Kregar was recently announced as the Summer 2009 winner of the ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award.
December 2009 / Darryn George Wall Work at TeTuhi, December 2009 - March 2010
Ngapuhi artist Darryn George is known for his minimal abstractions which draw from both Christian symbolism and his Maori heritage. For his Drawing Wall project at Te Tuhi he consolidates elements from both his recent room sized wall paintings and his extensive body of abstract paintings.
The Drawing Wall provides a site for George to develop crossovers between his canvas and wall based works. Working directly on the wall, he creates a giant abstract painting which is formed from duplicating elements of a previous composition Rehita across the wall. This method of repeating elements recalls the kowhaiwhai panels that George frequently references in his room sized work. Yet this methodology also recalls important New Zealand abstractionists such as Gordon Walters, particularly in George's use of simplified forms which are laid over a rich bright surface. George's Drawing Wall project teases out these dual references - expanding his abstract vocabulary and collapsing his painting methodologies. SOURCED: Te Tuhi website
The exhibition opens 12 December and runs to 10 March 2010.
December 2009 / Special Event at Cable Bay Vineyards
Gow Langsford Gallery in association with Cable Bay Vineyards present the Cable Bay Summer Sculpture Exhibition. The show is a group exhibition housed in the impressive landscape of Cable Bay Vineyards on Waiheke Island. The show includes major works by gallery artists Paul Dibble and David McCracken.
The opening event is Thursday 10th December, for further details please contact the gallery.