Exhibitions 2012
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The Ballad of the South Pacific
Max Gimblett 28 Nov - 31 Dec 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The monumental works of The Ballad of the South Pacific began as most of Max's paintings begin. Stretchers are ordered to his specifications from an art supply company in Brooklyn and arrive a week later. Giovanni Forlino and Kristen Reyes, Max’s two studio assistants, stretch number twelve cotton duck over... Read more -
Portraits of Mass and Transmission
David McCracken 31 Oct - 24 Nov 2012 Auckland City Transcending our expectations of his chosen materials new works in David McCracken's exhibition Portraits of Mass and Transmission appear at once industrial yet have an organic quality. Large-scale works made of Corten-steel dominate the exhibition space and despite their size, have a light whimsy quality that is incongruous with the... Read more -
Harvest
Sara Hughes 31 Oct - 24 Nov 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Sara Hughes’ painting practice can be characterized by an on-going fascination with the effects of pattern, structure, colour and optics on our understanding of the world. For her latest exhibition, Harvest, Hughes brings together a series of works that utilize different materials and surfaces to create an installation that is... Read more -
In Through The Outdoor
Karl Maughan 3 - 27 Oct 2012 Auckland City Gow Langsford Gallery hosted Karl Maughan's first solo exhibition in 1989. Even as a young artist Maughan was captivated by what would later emerge as his signature subject - the garden. Maughan has since found inspiration for his fictitious settings around the globe and, although ever faithful to his subject,... Read more -
The Ghost of the Huia and The Orchard
Paul Dibble 3 - 27 Oct 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In his exhibition of new sculptures, The Ghost of the Huia and The Orchard, Paul Dibble extends his amalgamation of Cor-ten steel with cast bronze. In a glorious juxtaposition of function and aesthetic play the two materials demonstrate a fascinating use of contrast. By methods of cutting, measuring and bending... Read more -
Spring Catalogue 2012
Celebrating 25 Years 9 - 29 Sep 2012 Auckland City Gow Langsford Gallery was established by John Gow and Gary Langsford in a converted gas station in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn in 1987. The premises added new meaning to the expression that it was started on the smell of an oily rag. Although not entirely humble beginnings (oysters... Read more -
Twice Upon A Time
Reuben Paterson 5 - 29 Sep 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Twice Upon a Time marks a significant leap for Reuben Paterson, from the familiarity of his glitter paintings into the 3-dimensional space of sculpture. The issue of depth is an ongoing concern of Paterson’s work, which uses light to animate and open up painting’s flat pictorial plane, and to challenge... Read more -
By The Stream
Antonio Murado 8 Aug - 1 Sep 2012 Auckland City Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Antonio Murado. Murado is an extraordinarily versatile painter with his works ranging from heavily textured impasto dirges to melodious arias, always demonstrating his virtuosity with materials and skill at creating subtle painterly effect. In his new... Read more -
Dreams Of Children
Michael Hight 8 Aug - 1 Sep 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Artist Micheal Hight is well-known for his on-going exploration of beehives and the sun-drenched New Zealand landscape. In contrast, his new series is largely autobiographical and is drawn from memories of growing up in Taranaki in the 60s and 70s. These paintings have a sense of the theatrical and with their dreamscape settings a nocturnal quality, which could be seen as an antithesis to Hight’s earlier beehive works. Both beautiful and curiously haunting, Hight has said of his new collection ‘I am interested in the way objects, places and events reassemble themselves through memory.’ Read more -
Paris Family Collection - An Introduction
11 Jul - 4 Aug 2012 Auckland City The Wellington home of collectors Les and Milly Paris has literally been filled with art. Works hang cheek by jowl as every possible wall space is utilised. The couple’s passion for art has dominated much of their lives and more than 40 years on, they have one of the most... Read more -
The Blue Plateau of Polynesian Memory
John Pule 11 Jul - 4 Aug 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The Plateau is an extensive stretch of elevated and comparatively levelled land. It is an environment changed by man-made and natural forces. In this exhibition of new paintings by John Pule, the Plateau is an internal concept. Here it is used here as a metaphor for land altered by memories... Read more -
Contemporary New Zealand Photography
Group Exhibition 13 Jun - 7 Jul 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gow Langsford Gallery presents two exhibitions to coincide with the Auckland Festival of Photography 2012. Contemporary New Zealand Photography (Lorne St) and Negative Kept (Kitchener St, until 23 June). Contemporary New Zealand Photography is a curated group exhibition of contemporary photographs canvassing a diverse range of subjects and photographic processes. Read more -
Dashper / Reynolds
13 Jun - 7 Jul 2012 Auckland City In 1984 new works by Julian Dashper and John Reynolds were exhibited together at a gallery in Wellington. At the time it was noted that these works were “about living in New Zealand and living in the world at the same time. There is simultaneously order and disorder. Everything is in motion, and to survive change we abstract our experience. We reflect ourselves back on the world according to the abstractions we have made.” (Virginia Were, Art NZ “John Reynolds/Julian Dashper”, Autumn 1985. Number 34. P.17)
Nearly thirty years later this exhibition Dashper / Reynolds brings together works by these artists from this period and contemplates their relationship at a specific point in their careers. The pairing considers the rapport of two diverse artists, both of whom are significant figures in New Zealand art history in their own right, working in common territories. Naturally, over time their careers have diverged and such a pairing of newer work may not be so immediately palpable. Dashper, who passed away in 2009, is widely known for his contribution to abstraction, conceptualism and minimalism while Reynolds more recent works are largely text based such as his 2008 Walters Prize Nomination work Cloud. Read more -
Negative Kept
Group Exhibition 13 - 23 Jun 2012 Auckland City The advent of commercially successful photographic processes in the late 1830s profoundly altered the transmission of history. Alongside written and printed word visual imagery became a new vehicle for the documentation and dissemination of information. Negative Kept focuses on a collection of carte-de-visite portraits of Maori from the second part... Read more -
Maukatere
Chris Heaphy 16 May - 9 Jun 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Mind-blowingly complex and impossibly intricate images colonise the paintings in Chris Heaphy’s new exhibition Maukatere. Although each symbol could be interpreted in multifarious ways, the viewer is challenged to consider the sum of their parts in a rich array of colour and densely layered meaning. The eye oscillates between the... Read more -
Karakia
Darryn George 16 May - 9 Jun 2012 Auckland City Although primarily an abstract painter, Darryn George has frequently used letters and numerals in his compositions often offering a more figurative reading than his geometric abstractions may initially suggest. Broadly speaking George’s artistic practice is underpinned by references to his own Christian faith and the series title for these new paintings is Karakia, the Maori word for prayer. It is perhaps not surprising to learn that these works evolved, in part, as a personal response to Christchurch’s deadly earthquake in 2011 which George, a Cantabrian experienced first-hand. Read more -
Favourite Things
Group Exhibition 18 Apr - 12 May 2012 Auckland City Despite well written curatorial statements, I sometimes wonder if a curated show is inherently an exhibition of the curator’s favourite things. This exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery Kitchener St is just that. Selected by gallery Staff Favourite Things is a grouping of pairings that, simply put, we like. Read more -
I Can't Stop Loving You
John Walsh 18 Apr - 12 May 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Narrative has always played a strong role in John Walsh’s paintings yet his storytelling has never been prescriptive. In this exhibition of new paintings, it is especially elusive as the suite of landscapes supporting the epic I can’t stop loving you are without his archetypal protagonists. Where earlier series have... Read more -
Late Models
Ian Scott 23 Mar - 14 Apr 2012 Auckland City A busty topless model stands in front of a seminal American abstract painting and a provocatively dressed blonde fastens her suspenders beside an iconic work of pop art. Scantily clad sex-bombs, masterpieces of modern art and blank white walls. These are the juxtapositions that confront the viewer of Ian Scott's... Read more -
Bernar Venet
23 Mar - 14 Apr 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In Nice stands one of France’s tallest public artworks, 9 lignes obliques (2010). More than 30 meters tall, nine vertical steel beams penetrate the coastal city’s skyline. In Austin, Texas, the right angle of an office building is contrasted by the colossal angular red form of 19.5° Angle (1986). At a sculpture park in New York, the singular Cor-ten beam in Straight Line (2000) rises above the treeline and a steel arc appears to precariously balance on the headquarters of Dongkuk Steel Mill Co. in downtown Seoul, South Korea, in 37.5° Arc (2010). Last year, the Cor-ten form of 85.8° Arc x 16 (2011) flanked the entrance to the Château of Versailles and the Palace grounds housed a solo exhibition of six further sculptures. These works - along with several installations around the world, including Japan, Korea, Germany, Norway and now in New Zealand – demonstrate the prominence of French artist Bernar Venet. Read more -
Te Ao Hou
Shane Cotton 22 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 Auckland City Shane Cotton: Te Ao Hou is a thematic survey exhibition focussing on a small grouping of works from the 1990s. The exhibition recognises this period as the era in which Cotton produced some of his finest works, both in their significance to his artistic practice and within the context of New Zealand art history. Read more -
Devon is my favorite Luncheon meat
Dale Frank 22 Feb - 17 Mar 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Dale Frank, one of Australia’s most acclaimed Artists, will delight Auckland audiences with an exhibition of recent paintings. His new series of works are as visceral as ever - the result of a highly complex painting technique in which intensely coloured varnish is poured layer upon layer in different stages of the drying process. In the resulting enigmatic and lyrical abstractions, surfaces are laden with colours that collide and separate, literally reacting with each other. Read more -
New Year New Works
Group Exhibition 1 - 18 Feb 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Artists from the Gow Langsford Gallery stable are invited to exhibit new works in New Year New Works - a concept that has become somewhat a tradition of our annual exhibition calendar. Although there is no prescribed theme or curated approach to the exhibition, together these works create a kind of compendium of the current practices of represented artists and by extension contemporary visual arts in Australasia. Read more -
Art For New Zealand: Icons of the 1960s and 1970s
Group Exhibition 1 - 18 Feb 2012 Auckland City Reflecting the rapidly developing culture and society, the 1960 and 70s were an expansive time for New Zealand art. The nation received its first television broadcast which, along with greater ease of travel, offered a wider availability of international media. Public museums and galleries were newly developed or modernised and increasingly began to host international touring exhibitions; and dealer galleries were established, creating a new commercial market for patrons. As wider audiences responded to burgeoning opportunities to engage with art, an appetite for visual arts progressively grew. By the 1970s the art world was blossoming. Read more -
John Pule: A Survey 1990 - 2011
14 Dec 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 Auckland City When John Pule first arrived in inner city Auckland as a young adult in 1980, the formal tenets of poetry and painting were largely unknown to him. Over the next 30 years Pule would explore new directions as both writer and painter, and has since emerged as one of this... Read more -
Tony Cragg
16 Nov 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] British sculptor Tony Cragg is one of the most highly acclaimed and influential sculptors of his generation. Having maintained a consistently high international profile since the 1980s his work has contributed significantly to the discourse around contemporary sculpture. At the centre of his sculptural practice is an interest in the... Read more -
Post Pop
Group Exhibition 16 Nov 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 Auckland City Pop Art revolutionized contemporary thinking towards art in the 1950s as aspects of mass culture were elevated to an art world more traditionally occupied by high art subjects and trends. Advertising, comics and mundane subjects of mass culture became the hot topics for artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Litchenstein... Read more
