Simon Kaan: Untitled New Works

Simon Kaan: Untitled New Works

Exhibition: Simon Kaan: Untitled New Works

Start Date: 16 September
Finishing Date: 24 October
Contact: ph:(04) 9200912
Address: 218c Willis Street, Wellington
Gallery open 10am to 5.00pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am to 4.00pm Saturday
Website: www.solandergallery.co.nz

Simon’s works necessarily reflect his Ngai Tahu and Chinese ancestry with simple elemental iconography such as water, tree and bird forms placed in an in- determinant ‘floating’ pictorial space. Soft subtle hues of colour seduce in their quiet reflection of sea and sky where multiple horizons contained in the work elude to our multiple experiences of the world.

Simon Kaan is of Chinese, Ngai Tahu and Pakeha ancestry. He graduated with a Diploma of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking at Otago Polytechnic in 1993 and has exhibited widely in New Zealand in both public and dealer galleries. In 2004 Simon Kaan undertook the Red Gate Gallery Residency in Beijing with the support of Creative New Zealand. Recently he has been included in Warwick Brown's book 'Seen this Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists - A Collector's Guide' published by Random House.

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