'Just the right white' opens next Wednesday 3 February

'Just the right white' opens next Wednesday 3 February

Our first exhibition for 2016, Just the right white, takes its name from the neon artwork by Mary-Louise Browne, which wryly plays with the human quest for perfection. Bringing together white works by four artists, Just the right white explores the seductive power of white. Both the absence of colour and a mix of all colour, white speaks to purity and emptiness, symbolism and formalism. Discussing his signature use of white, architect Richard Meier has said that whiteness allows ideas to be understood—"the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity".

Mary-Louise Browne is an established artist with an impressive history of exhibitions and permanent public art commissions who works at the forefront of a text-based conceptual practice in a broad range of media.

Maria Colls is a self-taught artist from Wellington whose hand-cut layered paper works draw on geometric forms founds in both natural and man-made urban forms.

Claudia Jowitt recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Like aerial views of a not quite recognisable landscape, her paintings explore texture, form and mark-making teasing notions of representation.

Kazu Nakagawa is a Tokyo-born artist, designer and furniture maker who has been living in New Zealand for almost 30 years. His drawings, paintings and sculptures invoke a meditative quietness.

If you would like further information about our artists and their art please contact us.

New billboard by Mizuho Nishioka
We are pleased to be launching a new billboard by Mizuho Nishioka who has just submitted her PhD in Fine Arts to Massey University in Wellington. With this image from her series Machine Time_Nature Time, Mizuho uses the technology inherent in photography as a creative strategy to question what constitutes the photographic image—what is selectively included and what is silently occluded.

Smaller prints of Mizuho’s work will be available on order.

Artists in other exhibitions
We were very proud to see the work of gallery artists Helen Calder, Andre Hemer, Marie Le Lievre andPeter Trevelyan included in Unseen: The Changing Collection, and Lonnie Hutchinson in Ata Wairere, two of the re-opening shows at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu. It's great to see the gallery open and to see new works, added to the collection while the gallery was closed for five long years, alongside works that have been in storage. We highly recommend a visit if you haven’t already been.

Work of Lonnie Hutchinson’s from the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is included inWhano Kē, a showcase of examples of the diverse creativity in Māori art from the 1960s to the present day.

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