Full Circle

Group Exhibition 4 Dec 2013 - 1 Feb 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Full Circle is a group exhibition which examines the way in which a number of contemporary artists use the tondo as a form on which to work.

An ancient shape that stretches back to the beginnings of time, first recorded in replicas of the sun and moon, the tondo, or circle, has long been linked with religion and mythology as well as with nature. The shape of the circle symbolises eternity and creating a circular work of art results in giving it a wholeness, as well as a sense of movement and energy gained from freeing the painted surface from more restrained square and rectangular stretchers.

Full Circle includes work by three key gallery artists, Reuben Paterson, Dale Frank and Max Gimblett. Read more

Long View

Karl Maughan 6 - 30 Nov 2013 Auckland City, Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The much anticipated new exhibition by Karl Maughan, Long View, opens tomorrow evening at both our Lorne and Kitchener St galleries. The hyper-real compositions of Karl Maughan's oil paintings transport viewers down a garden path and into painterly expressions of vibrant colour and light. Outdoor environments, manicured by the artist,... Read more

The Dance of the Hooligans

Dick Frizzell 2 Oct - 2 Nov 2013 Auckland City, Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] It’s been a big twelve months. We moved back to Auckland after nine years of bucolic splendour in Hawkes Bay. And I turned seventy. One of these events prompted an enormous upheaval of several storage systems and the other a reflective rummage through the subsequently exposed archive. A lot of... Read more

God Created Me In His Own Image

Richard Lewer 4 - 28 Sep 2013 Auckland City This work continues my interests in extreme behaviour, subcultures and the human condition, and specifically considers people or events of faith, healing, mysticism and tradition teachings in one form or another. Last year because of a myriad of health concerns I moved to Fremantle, WA to take some time out... Read more

New Structures

Gregor Kregar 4 - 28 Sep 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In 1962 architect Buckminster Fuller imagined a floating city of Cloud Structures thatwere intended to alleviate the politics of land ownership, aid conservation of nature and liberate humankind's dependency on the earth. The imaginary potential and influence of utopian architectural aspirations is an important underlying influence of Gregor Kregar's practice,... Read more

Spring Catalogue 2013

Group Exhibition 31 Jul - 31 Aug 2013 Auckland City Every year we look forward to selecting an exciting collection of work, from local and international artists, for the Gow Langsford Gallery Spring Catalogue. This year, to coincide with the exhibition at our Auckland gallery, we will also present highlights of the Spring Catalogue exhibition at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in September. Read more

New Works 2013

Group Exhibition 31 Jul - 31 Aug 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] To coincide with the Auckland Art Fair Gallery artists were invited to create new works for a group exhibition. Along with our two stands at the Auckland Art Fair, the exhibition will show case the diversity of local artists represented by Gow Langsford Gallery. Including works by Sara Hughes, Reuben... Read more

Interview With A Painting

Simon Ingram 10 - 27 Jul 2013 Auckland City In Interview with a Painting Simon Ingram reverses some the machinic codes of his recent work for a more direct dialogue with each painting. Rather than look upwards and outwards to radio energy and space, the paintings in this exhibition are interested in a dialogue with the artist, the studio,... Read more

The Big Picture

Group Exhibition 10 - 27 Jul 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] A group exhibition of large paintings including work by Allen Maddox, Dale Frank Judy Millar and Michael Smither. Read more

The Titirangi Years, 1953 – 1959

Colin McCahon 12 Jun - 6 Jul 2013 Auckland City In what is now known as the French Bay House in the West Auckland suburb of Titirangi, painter Colin McCahon produced some of his most consequential works. With the shift from the South Island to Auckland with his family in 1953 came a new direction in his painting and the... Read more

Recent Paintings

John Walsh 12 Jun - 6 Jul 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In London, 1818, two young Maori chefs, Tui and Titiri, produced some of the earliest Maori naturalistic drawings, in the form of ink sketches of war canoes. In this exhibition of new works by John Walsh, the painting The Voyagers depicts figures from Tui and Titiri's drawings as they are... Read more

As Rembrandt Would Have Painted The Maori

Charles F. Goldie 15 May - 8 Jun 2013 Auckland City Charles F. Goldie is undoubtedly one of New Zealand's most famous artists and Gow Langsford Gallery is delighted to host As Rembrandt Would Have Painted the Maori, the first one-man exhibition of his works in a dealer gallery for six decades. Although enlivened by controversy, his paintings are fabled in... Read more

Monument

Group Exhibition 15 May - 8 Jun 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] MONUMENT: featuring Anthony Goicolea is an exhibition of photographic works timed to coincide with the Auckland Festival of Photography 2013.

Cuban-American, New York based photographer Anthony Goicolea has shown with Gow Langsford Gallery since 2003. His earlier photographs, in which he frequently appeared as protagonist, addressed ideas around child sexuality, androgyny and homosexuality. His more recent works employ similarly sophisticated production techniques of manipulating images in post-production. The works included here are from his Pathetic Fallacy (2011) and DecemberMay (2010) series’. Alongside Goicolea's work, works by preeminent international photographers will be shown; including works from Miao Xiaochun’s The last judgement in Cyberspace series and photographs by Isaac Layman, Michael Wolf, Tracey Moffatt and Marco Breuer. Works by New Zealand local photographer Laurence Aberhart are also included. Read more

New Work '13

James Cousins 17 Apr - 11 May 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Developing and expanding on themes evident in his earlier exhibitions Signal (2009) and Accent (2011), in New Work’13 James Cousins continues to intertwine and enmesh abstraction with figuration in his reticent and illusional works. As in earlier series’, these paintings are constructed through compounded layers of processes. They combine intricate and systemised pattern-making procedures with unmediated spontaneous acts. Impossible tensions arise in the tenuous meeting of his pictorial subjects (in this case flora taken from a published anthology of plants) and material working processes of the paintings themselves. This is compounded in some works by deliberate and heavy overworking of otherwise delicate and fragile paint surfaces. Read more

Andy Warhol

17 Apr - 11 May 2013 Auckland City The work of Andy Warhol needs little introduction. As America took a turn from the conventional conservatism that ruled the ‘50s into the swinging sixties – a new time of cultural liberty, frivolity, and mass-production and consumerism emerged. As a pioneering artist of the associated artistic movement of Pop Art, Andy Warhol’s now world-famous work explores the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. This exhibition covers major themes in his works – skulls, Chairman Mao, Marilyn and the electric chairs. Read more

Mrkusich / Thornley

Group Exhibition 20 Mar - 13 Apr 2013 Auckland City This collection of paintings brings together works by seminal New Zealand abstract painters Milan Mrkusich (b.1925) and Geoff Thornley (b. 1942). As the transition from representation to abstraction occurred in New Zealand art history in the mid-twentieth century, abstract artists faced widespread antagonism. As a young artist Mrkusich’s works were often met with criticism as they outlandishly deterred from the well-known regional concerns of contemporaries such as Colin McCahon and Rita Angus, yet by the 1970s he was firmly established as a leading exponent of modernist art in New Zealand. Thornley, seventeen years his junior, has similarly remained loyal to abstraction and throughout his career has engaged with explorations of colour and its emotive effects. Spanning two decades, the works in Milan Mrkusich and Geoff Thornley provide a snapshot of twentieth century New Zealand abstraction, comparing and contrasting two painters who, through their commitment to abstraction, have both emerged as influential artists of their generation. Read more

Comic Drop

Judy Millar 20 Mar - 13 Apr 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Comic Drop an exhibition of new works by gallery artist Judy Millar. Millar is one of New Zealand's most exciting contemporary painters who shares her time between a remote property at Anawhata and inner city Berlin - where her career continues to gain momentum. Comic Drop brings together a series of new works that combine exaggerated enlargements of handmade gestures with vivid colour. In these works Millar continues to takes on the history of expressive painting and turn it inside out.

Recent career highlights include two exhibitions at the Venice Biennale representing New Zealand with her solo exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun 2009; and in Time, Space, Existence a curated exhibition at Pallazo Bembo in 2011. Her work is about to be featured in a large exhibition of star international art in the Czech Republic and an upcoming solo exhibition at IMA Brisbane, Australia. Read more

Tony Fomison: A Portrait

Tony Fomison & Shirley Grace 27 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 Auckland City This exhibition of photographs of Tony Fomison by Shirley Grace, shown alongside Fomison’s own paintings, prints and ceramics offers a unique insight into one of this country’s most recognised post-war painters.

Fomison (1939-1990), like his paintings, is said to have had an intensity and presence that is somewhat difficult to define. Reflected in his works in a lifetime spent of observation and documentation of his immediate environments, here, Grace’s photographs offer a kind of counter observation of the artist himself. Read more

Temporary Mechanisms

Alex Monteith 17 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Temporary Mechanisms is Alex Monteith’s first solo exhibition with Gow Langsford Gallery. Monteith is a prolific contemporary film maker known for her technically sophisticated video installations that reflect contemporary sports, cultural and social activities. Her works are typically performance and time-based; employing media such as film, sound, and video, and are often created in extreme or large-scale geographies. Read more

Summer Show

Group Exhibition 23 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Auckland City Summer Show is an exhibition of recent paintings by gallery artists, providing a dynamic take on the tradition of the Summer Group show. Read more