The holiday season, when so many evacuate the city, remains an excellent time to leisurely take in a show at your favourite local gallery. This seasons highlights include;
TRISH CLARK GALLERY
The XX Factor 3.0
Stella Brennan, Gil Hanly, Susan Leonard, Julia Morison, Nova Paul, Tia Ranginui, Marie Shannon, Heather Straka, Christine Webster
On until 23 December
The XX Factor 3.0, broadly focussed on portraiture, and shines a lens on the practices of nine local artists spanning three generations whose works engage with expanded notions of portraiture.
Staying true to the feminist adage that the personal is political, The XX Factor 3.0 combines portraiture’s biographical elements and historical-political implications so the localised yet expansive conduit of personal experience gives expression to this complex relation. With works bridging personal biography and social, cultural, and technological histories, the artists have utilized diverging technologies and embodied knowledge to both investigate their presents and to imagine possible futures.
142 Great North Road, Grey Lynn. trishclark.co.nz
AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI
Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection
Group show of contemporary acquisitions
On until 7 July 2024
Art creates a portal to other eras and places while also affecting our perception of contemporary life. Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection tracks artistic movements from home and across the globe, interlacing recent acquisitions from the Gallery’s New Zealand and International collections.
Curated by Natasha Conland, this free entry exhibition contemplates how we ‘travel’ with art – how artists respond to history and the world we inhabit. Key themes include: passports and portals; forewarning and foreboding; utopias and dystopia; the sublime disrupted; and guides and shamans.
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, CBD. aucklandartgallery.com
TE TUHI
Summer Exhibitions at Te Tuhi
Wu Tsang, Yukari 베便 Kaihori, Caryline Boreham, Louisa Afoa, Luke Shaw, Ardit Hoxha
On until 28 Jan 2024
For this season of exhibitions at Te Tuhi, five newly commissioned works by artists from across Aotearoa New Zealand are shown alongside the first New Zealand presentation of a major video work by award-winning filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang. Wu Tsang’s One Emerging From A Point Of View, is a large-scale, two-channel overlapping video projection intertwining two disparate narratives through synchronised camera choreography.
Yukari 베便 Kaihori presents Two Sides Of The Moon, a new installation drawing on practices located in Japanese folk animism, considering the life-force in materials and things.
Caryline Boreham presents Disco Volante, examining archival material from official records of UFO sightings in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Audio artist and musician Luke Shaw presents (Re)Calling Home, a new audio work referencing sunlight-reflected Morse-code messages.
Louisa Afoa presents Essential Household Items, a still-life photographic series opening up questions around intergenerational differences and artist–writer Ardit Hoxha presents Lost Dream, a large-scale, text-based work across Te Tuhi’s billboard sites in Pakuranga and Parnell.
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga. tetuhi.art
FÖENANDER GALLERIES
Archipelago
Michael McHugh
On until 24 December
Michael McHugh’s paintings reflect an instantly familiar vision of Pacific forms and nature’s exuberance, as well as a highly personal perception of subject matter. McHugh’s playfulness is complemented by an abstract logic, which breaks forms down into lively compositions of geometry, texture and colour, where structures flow and grow through the paintings, creating vibrant textures and patterns which overwhelm the scenes.
455 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden. foenandergalleries.co.nz
