Exhibitions 2014
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Spring Catalogue 2014
Group Exhibition 13 Oct - 8 Nov 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The tradition of the Spring Catalogue is well established at Gow Langsford. This year, along with the significant featured works, we take you behind the scenes and offer a more personal account of the Gallery’s past year of events and exhibitions. Read more -
Lucid Dream, Black Rose, Glass Box
Hye Rim Lee 17 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 Auckland City Lucid Dream, Black Rose, Glass Box is a photography, mural and sculpture exhibition which deconstructs dreamspaces from a narrative to an infinite dream, reflecting Hye Rim Lee's ongoing 3D animation project, Black Rose. Read more -
Sing a Rainbow
Sara Hughes 17 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] This Spring, Gow Langsford Gallery Lorne St will exhibit a new collection of paintings by Sara Hughes. Sing a Rainbow (17 September - 11 October) continues Hughes' observation and study of colour and perception. Hughes' embarks on extensive research for each body of work she produces, her paintings becoming charts and data vehicles for colour studies, which have often focused on global issues of economic growth and demise, illustrated using finance and crop harvesting models. Hughes' latest project concentrates on the development of visual systems in children and has been inspired by her young family. In the statement below Hughes' gives context to her new collection which explores a development each of us once experienced, the discovery of the world as we view it. Read more -
Gordon Walters
Gordon Walters 3 - 13 Sep 2014 Auckland City Collectively, Walters' artworks form one of the most important bodies of work ever produced in New Zealand and his geometric abstractions have become somewhat emblematic of New Zealand art. The exhibition of ten works brings together key elements of his oeuvre, highlights of which are three rarely seen koru paintings. The exhibition runs concurrent to The Walters Prize 2014 exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. Read more -
Yves Klein Franz Kline
Michael Thomson 20 Aug - 13 Sep 2014 Auckland City Australian based artist Michael Thomson has explored the practice of drawing for the majority of his career, focusing in particular on the drawing of paintings and photographs. His current exhibition YvesKleinFranzKlineYvesKleinFranzKline is inspired by the colours and works of Absract Expressionist artists Yves Klein and Franz Kline. Thomson has created large-scale pencil drawings with both a painterly quality and depth in colour.
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Phantom Cube
Graham Fletcher 20 Aug - 13 Sep 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Graham Fletcher's first solo exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery, Phantom Cube, continues to explore themes of cultural appropriation created by the European tradition of housing collections of Oceanic and African Tribal art in domestic settings. Totems, 'primitive' structures and tribal objects are collaged into modern interior and exterior-scapes generating illogical conjunctions that bring into light aspects of borderless states and the de-familiarisation of cultures through juxtaposition. Although these new works can be viewed through the lens of post colonialism and its use of traditional ethnographic forms, they also share common ground with the works of Dada and Surrealist artists in their references to the collision of cultures through disparate objects. It is through this blending of cultural and Modernist elements that these works talk about aspects of authenticity, cultural interaction and the assimilation of indigenous peoples within the Western landscape,
Graham Fletcher has been a practicing artist since 1997 and has exhibited extensively both in New Zealand and abroad, He has works in significant private and public collections and has also received numerous awards and grants including the Wallace Arts Trust Development Award (2010). Read more -
Register
Darryn George 23 Jul - 16 Aug 2014 Auckland City Darryn George's new collection, Register, continues George's study in symbols as well as systems of filing and data collection. The new works are simplistic but bear reference to clipboards and card catalogue systems, as well as illustrating George's interest in playing matte and high-gloss finishes off against each other. Read more -
Levels of Abstraction
Group Exhibition 23 Jul - 16 Aug 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Where abstraction was once a radical movement away from natural depiction and the illusion of reality, it has now become a central and ongoing concern for artists across the globe. Levels of Abstraction reflects contemporary concerns of artists working in the field of abstraction, their engagement with a substantial art history and development of its language. Read more -
Emotionally Unsaturated
David McCracken 25 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 Auckland City In Emotionally Unsaturated David McCracken works industrial materials into fluid form, filling the space with stainless and cor-ten steel structures that surpass our material expectations. Read more -
Crossing The Line
Michael Hight 25 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The 2012 exhibition The Dreams of Children signalled a shift in Michael Hight’s painting practice. The black paintings had a dramatic and nocturnal quality which is extended in Crossing the Line as the new works continue Hight’s fascination with memory, archives, encyclopaedias and the surprising relations between things. Each work is like a theatrical tableau placed upon a shelf against a black backdrop for the viewer to behold. A handful of elements are juxtaposed to produce multiple effects—luminous paintwork, autobiographical threads, historical narratives, psychological judders, allegory, metaphor and so on. In contrast to Hight’s beehive paintings, these works feature landscape on a reduced scale. It is partitioned off and rattles against the things and people placed in the scene. At times, the paintings generate a sense of unease, the macabre, the unfamiliar, a visual puzzle. At other times, the effect is nostalgic, moving, deeply familiar. Read more -
The Gold Thread
Max Gimblett 28 May - 21 Jun 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The Gold Thread is a new collection of work from the Max Gimblett studio in New York. The colourful gilded works in their tropical colours are spiritual and alive, with acid palettes and bold clear brushwork. The dark works, in contrast, are more serious. Studio manager, Matt Jones, describes them as 'answers to questions', they've decided what's right and what's wrong. The gold and silver works represent individualism; they are old magicians, as though heading for retirement, leaving behind their alchemy. Read more -
All That Glitters
Group Exhibition 30 Apr - 24 May 2014 Auckland City A group exhibition including works by gallery artists Max Gimblett, Judy Millar and Reuben Paterson. Read more -
Jono Rotman
30 Apr - 24 May 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In 2014 Gow Langsford Gallery exhibited a series of portraits by New York-based New Zealander Jono Rotman. The large format photographs of patched members of the Mongrel Mob were the subject of intense public debate. Read more -
FREEZE
Group Exhibition 2 - 26 Apr 2014 Auckland City The group exhibition Freeze celebrates artworks that have been inspired by the coldest regions of the globe, and includes work by gallery represented and invited artists. Read more -
FRIEZE
Group Exhibition 2 - 26 Apr 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gow Langsford Gallery presents Frieze an exhibition of over thirty new paintings and photographs by New Zealand artists. Inspired by the Roman architectural tradition Frieze brings together a diverse collection of contemporary artworks to conclude our exhibition schedule for 2010. Artists were invited to create new works which when hung collectively create a frieze around the entire gallery space. Working within the existing architectural elements of the gallery space, the works range in format and the diversity of medium and subject reflect the range of artists. Read more -
Jan De Vliegher
8 - 29 Mar 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In association with Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of Jan De Vliegher’s paintings in New Zealand. Read more -
Maori: Tradition and Object
Group Exhibition 5 - 29 Mar 2014 Auckland City Maori: Tradition and Object brings together a collection of important Maori artefacts displayed alongside the luminous paintings of Gottfried Lindauer. Read more -
Colour – System – Support
Group Exhibition 5 Feb - 1 Mar 2014 Auckland City Colour – System – Support is a curated group exhibition that brings together four artists who address modernist thought – each pushing and re-figuring painting into new contexts. All of the featured works are painted on the support of metal, as opposed to paper or canvas, which affects the density and weight of colour on their surface. The exhibition is made up of works by two German painters, Gunther Forg and Katharina Grosse and two New Zealanders, Stephen Bambury and Judy Millar, thus adding an international context to the conversation around systems of painting. Read more -
1993 – 2003: A Decade in the Making
Shane Cotton 5 Feb - 1 Mar 2014 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] A decade culminating in a respective exhibition held at City Gallery Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery marks a period of significant importance in Shane Cotton’s career. The works chosen as part of Gow Langsford Gallery’s 1993 – 2003: A Decade in the Making include pivotal early works alongside major works from the early 2000s. Read more -
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
