New Works

Judy Millar 11 Nov - 5 Dec 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Developed alongside her work currently on show in the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale the new work in this exhibition extends Judy Millar’s tireless interrogation of the possibilities inherent in the immediacy of painting as an activity and an act of communication in today’s world. Millar will present... Read more

Spring Catalogue 2009

Group Exhibition 14 Oct - 7 Nov 2009 Auckland City, Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The Spring Catalogue Exhibition has been a hallmark of the Gow Langsford Gallery calendar since 1996. Presented in conjunction with John Leech Gallery, the exhibition is made up of a collection of investment artworks ranging from historical paintings by artists including Alfred Sharpe and Nicholas Chevalier to works by renowned artists such as Rosalie Gascoigne and Colin McCahon. For the first time, Gow Langsford and John Leech Galleries have invited artists from their stables of artists to create new works specifically for the show, adding a contemporary edge to this years’ collection. Read more

Black to Black

Group Exhibition 16 Sep - 8 Oct 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of three of New Zealand’s most significant contemporary painters: Darryn George, Shane Cotton and Ralph Hotere. The artists are linked by the conceptual concerns explored within their works – which often attempt to reconcile a Maori and European heritage: both... Read more

Sold Out: Works from the 1990s

Peter Robinson 19 Aug - 12 Sep 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Often bitterly ironic or aggressively humorous Peter Robinson’s works of the 1990s have emerged as iconic in contemporary New Zealand art. Around this time questions regarding the efficacy of centralised policy for biculturalism flourished in New Zealand and fittingly Robinson’s works of this period address interracial politics and the commercial consumerism of cultural identity. Read more

Nothing Must Remain

John Pule 22 Jul - 15 Aug 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] John Pule's exhibition Nothing Must Remain is a detailed and emotive look at love and the human view of, and impact on, the ocean. Twenty small works on paper are hand written love poems that speak of angels and show Pule's artistic talent at its best. The artist's familiar mix of text and image show a new direction by the use of bright watercolours and the uncluttered pages possess a delicate complexity. Read more

Every Day is like Sunday

Karl Maughan 23 Jun - 17 Jul 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gow Langsford Gallery presents Every Day is like Sunday, a solo show by Karl Maughan featuring his iconic garden scenes.

Karl Maughan’s perfectly executed gardens are iconic in contemporary New Zealand art. In his new exhibition Every Day is like Sunday the famous rhododendrons are taking a secondary space to the lush foliage and coloured petals of a variety of flower species and for the first time, Maughan has incorporated coastal gardens into his compositions. Read more

International Photography

Group Exhibition 2 - 19 Jun 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gow Langsford Gallery presents International Photography, a stellar collection of photographic works from around the world.

The photographic medium is one of the most accessible artistic pursuits and the internationally acclaimed artists in International Photography present us with an engaging variety of different worlds.

Kim Joon’s famous painted nudes confidently claim their role as interrogator of reality and illusion while the emotionless portraits from Roland Fischer’s “Los Angeles Series” are eerily beautiful. Australian photographer Rebecca Hobbs’ focus here is on the animal world and our connection with it. The scenes she portrays are disconnected from the world they inhabit by the use of a pitch black backgrounds acting as a stage curtain behind the scene.

Anthony Goicolea employs the black and white photographic technique to discuss the ideas of human control and destruction. His images comment on power in the present and future and the destructive forces of both humanity and nature. Danwen Xing’s “DisCONNECTION” works examine e-trash as objects of 21st century modernity and Patricia Piccinini’s photographs seek to redefine the dualism of the artificial and the natural.

Each of the artists presented in International Photography have their own unique view of the world that they eloquently display in their work. The preview is timed to coincide with Gravity Festival Tuesday on Tuesday 2nd June. Read more

Full Fathom Five

Max Gimblett 5 - 29 May 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Max Gimblett is one of few New Zealander's to exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City. His recent inclusion in The Third Mind is milestone in recent New Zealand art history is directly followed by his exhibition full fathom five at Gow Langsford Gallery. The exhibition presents a collection of new paintings in his signature style of luscious surfaces, shaped canvases and fluid brushwork. Read more

Refractions

Tim Maguire 7 Apr - 1 May 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Tim Maguire based originally in Australia and more recently in Europe, started painting in the 1980s. It was during the 1990s however that he first developed the flower paintings for which he is perhaps most well-known. These works, depicting individual flowers magnified to the extreme or vast cinematic flower-scapes, are... Read more

Signal

James Cousins 10 Mar - 3 Apr 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In his inaugural show with Gow Langsford, James Cousins presents a body of painting that both draws from and expands on concepts explored in his earlier practice. Aligned with his early grid-based and recurring image works of the 1990s, Cousins recent work employs wellworn distant utopian landscape imagery, informed by... Read more

Boing, Boom, Tschak

Simon Ingram 3 - 25 Feb 2009 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In Boing, Boom, Tschak, Simon Ingram draws together two parallel lines of inquiry, the resulting works exhibit an intriguing painterly dialogue. The exhibition includes paintings that the artist has created by hand according to simple sets of machine like rules i.e. the ‘artist as machine’. Juxtaposed alongside these are self-making painting machines, developed and constructed by Ingram i.e. the ‘machine as artist’. Both procedures generate exquisite painterly monochromatic compositions, whether machine or man-made. The focus is on a dialogue of mechanistic and automatic practices embedded in the gritty material fact of painting. Though the works have roots in Concrete Art and Abstraction, they open up a conversation with artificial life and the idea that matter, the matter of painting, develops its own vocabularies of thought and self-organisation. Ingram’s work also draws on the history of the machine in art as an apparatus of autonomous creativity and in so doing calls into question the traditional assumption of the artist as creative genius. In Boing, Boom, Tschak, Ingram does so with vigour, subtle irony and compassion.

Simon Ingram's work interprets the modernist practice of the autonomous, self-made artwork in relation to painting as a constructional and computationally based self-organising system. His practice articulates itself in three distinct lines of work: machines made from Lego robotics and generic constructional materials that paint autonomously in oil paint with a brush; paintings made by the artist that use artificial life systems as a method to govern composition and decision making; and video work related to the production of self-making painting machines. Drawing on divergent strands of knowledge (artificial life, painting, critical theory, software), the project re-stages and reinvents painting as a critical, contemporary project that explores painting’s conceptual signification while remaining resolutely fabricational. Read more