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Gallery News, June 2010

It is with regret that we announce that the upcoming show will be the final at City Art Rooms. The final show, Matt Molloy's Levitation of the Cryptoid will run until 25th June 2010.

We reflect upon each and every art experience with an immense amount of satisfaction; that we have achieved and exceeded our goal of providing a gallery space that is not only focused on experimentation, engagement and discourse, but that has also presented projects and exhibitions of the highest quality.

The timing is perhaps ironic given the amount of publicity received by our gallery and artists this month including: appearances in Art News New Zealand and Art Zone; Young Sun Han featuring in a major article in Sunday magazine (23rd May 2010) as one of New Zealand's 10 most exciting artists; and Matt Molloy's new exhibition Levitation of the Cryptoid featuring on both TV3's Nightline and 95bFM. This is a testament to the achievement of many of our goals for the space over the past 3 years, particularly in increasing the opportunities for exposure of the work of emerging artists.

Our web site will remain as a resource for at least 12 months after the closure of the gallery and we have pledged to keep our clients informed of developments with the careers of the artists they are most interested in.So, please let us know if you wish to continue in your support for our represented artists.

Thank you for your support over the last three years.  We will miss the fun. 
Happy New Year! - January 2010
 
City Art Rooms welcomes you back for the 2010 season. We hope you had a wonderful holiday, and we are excited to bring you more art this year. Our gallery hours are back to normal (Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sa 11am-3pm), and our current exhibition, Summer Drunk Tank, is on view for a few more weeks, so be sure to catch it!

Summer Drunk Tank features local artists Kevin Capon, Simon Glaister, Geoffrey Heath, John Hurrell, Matt Molloy, Clinton Phillips, Melbourne based Jason Lingard, Christian Keinstar of Cologne, Germany and Russian, New York based artist Slava Mogutin.

Gallery News, May 2009

Curator Young Sun Han recently presented a talk at the Physics Room, Christchurch, Puff Puff Give: Art Fairs and Inhaling Attention. You can read about the presentation and listen to a casual recording of the talk at the Physics Room web site: http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/events/2009/han/

Photographers Sam Hartnett and Geoffrey Heath will feature in a group exhibition featuring Auckland talent across the ditch. From the depths of suburbia, curated by Serena Bentley, will open at the QCA Gallery in Queensland, Australia on 8 May, 2009. The exhibition runs through 13 July, 2009. To preview works that will be in this exhibition, please contact City Art Rooms.

Artist Simon Glaister recently departed for Venice, Italy as one of ten competitively selected attendants for New Zealand's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. We wish him safe travels.
 

City Art Rooms and Antoinette Godkin Gallery to join forces on Lorne St - May 2009
 
City Art Rooms’ recent exhibition programme has included live sound performances, polystyrene instruments, painterly videos, and large scale installations. In a continuing effort to support and feature these non-traditional works by breakthrough artists, we have redeveloped our floor plan and physical layout to focus especially on critical artistic projects.
 
The front half of City Art Room’s current premises will be occupied by established arts dealer Antoinette Godkin, with the rear portion of the gallery renovated to expand upon City Art Room’s current project space.
 
The two galleries will operate adjacent each other, offering opportunities to cross-fertilise ideas and exhibitions. Striking contexts will be established between Godkin’s portfolio of artists and City Art Room’s diversified approach in the promotion of installation, performance, photography and new media.
 
City Art Rooms will continue to represent artists as a dealer and agent. The joint use of the space by Godkin will free resources for City Art Rooms to operate in a creative direction akin to other project and artist run spaces in the country. The new layout retains its dedicated project / exhibition area, alongside an expanded office space, which will feature solo projects and group showings.
 
City Art Rooms will also continue to foster relationships between overseas artists and galleries, participate in international art fairs, create off site projects, and host the popular Young Blood Salon student competition.
 
Our makeover began on 11 April, and we will reopen with a group exhibition, Black Candy, on Friday 24 April. Antoinette Godkin will launch her new space on the same night with Pearler, an exhibition by artist Miranda Parkes. Don’t miss this new venture!
 
Joint opening previews 5.30pm, Friday 24 April: Black Candy group exhibition at City Art Rooms; Pearler by Miranda Parkes at Antoinette Godkin.
 
  
Karena Way: Sound performance and demo this Saturday - March 2009

As part of the Auckland Festival's Artlink tour, artist Karena Way will demonstrate the use of sound, which forms an integral part of her joint exhibition 'little rain' with Cat Auburn. Drawing from an archive of samples, Way will perform and mix different recorded and live elements, revealing techniques for designing a soundscape.

'little rain' will be on view at City Art Rooms from 10am - 4pm during the Artlink event. The workshop will take place the Ceroc Dance Studio located one level above the gallery from 12 - 2pm.

For more information and Artlink bus routes, visit:
http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/event-info/Artlink?genreUrl=visual-arts

What: Sound performance and workshop
Who: Karena Way
Where: City Art Rooms & Ceroc Dance Studio, Level 1 & 2, 28 Lorne St
When: Sat 21 March, 12 - 2pmLaunch of Skins: Billboard Art Project - July 2009

Fine art will be brought to the streets with an innovative new project from APN Outdoor. Called
Skins, the project will showcase monumental works of art from emerging New Zealand artists:
Kevin Capon, Young Sun Han, Sam Hartnett, Brendan McGorry, Jessica Pearless, and Kate Woods.

APN Outdoor, in collaboration with City Art Rooms and print sponsor Boston Digital, will provide
unused billboard spaces to parade fresh eye-catching art throughout the city.

The Skins billboards (each measuring a whopping 6 x 3 metres) will be located throughout areas
in central Auckland, such as Britomart, Ponsonby, and Mt Eden. There will be six sites in total,
making it the largest project of its kind in New Zealand’s history.

APN Outdoor partnered with City Art Rooms project gallery to bring the initiative to fruition. The
six chosen works represent a diversity of up and coming talent, and the billboards will be on view
for at least six months from early August, offering a dynamic addition to Auckland's inner city
landscape.

A launch event will be held on the 30th July at Webb’s auction house in Newmarket. Alongside a
dramatic display of the six full scale billboards, smaller versions of the artworks printed by Boston
Digital will be auctioned on the night to raise money for Cure Kids. The Cure Kids foundation
conducts medical research to thwart life-threatening illnesses that devastate the lives of young
children and their families.

For more information about the auction and event, please visit:
http://artskins.webs.com/

An interview with Radio New Zealand can be listened to here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/concert/upbt/2009/07/27/young_sunhan

  
Artist Talk in the gallery - March 2009

Please join us for an artist talk moderated by curator Andrew Clifford of the Gus Fisher Gallery. He will be in conversation with emerging artists Cat Auburn and Karena Way about their joint exhibition little rain. They will also be joined by writers Renee Liang and Darryl Fausett.

This event will be held at City Art Rooms on Thursday 5 March, 6pm. Light refreshments will be served.
2009 Accolades, Events, and Words - March 2009

Cat Auburn & Karena Way's two-person exhibition, little rain, opens on 3 March at City Art Rooms. They will be presenting an artist talk on 5 March at 6pm in the gallery. In association with the Auckland Festival 2009's Artlink Bus, the artists will present a live performance in the gallery on 21 March. The Artlink bus will be circling through central Auckland, taking passengers to numerous exciting art venues. For more information, click here.

Young Sun Han's 2008-2009 performance 24 Hour Embrace was reviewed in the Chicago publication, Newcity. He will be featured in the upcoming Icons issue of The Fader, New York. His work is currently featured in the group exhibition, The Maui Dynasty, Suter Gallery, Nelson, runs until 22 March, 2009.

Sam Hartnett will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition F for Fake, curated by Emma Bugden and Stephen Cleland. Other featured artists include: Fiona Connor, Rod Dickinson, Gelitin, Karl F Sim aka C F Goldie, Glen Hayward, Ralph Hoteere, Ronnie Van Hout, Shigeyuki Kihara, Les Liens Invisibles, Dane Mitchell, and Warren Olds. Opening on 7 March, 2009 at the Te Tuhi Gallery, the exhibition is "interested in the idea of mischeif as both an act of play and as a political gesture." Visit Te Tuhi's web site for further information here.

A stunning example of John Hurrell's large map paintings is currently on display at the New Auckland Art Gallery. Curated by Ron Brownson from the gallery's permanent collection, the work appears in the In Shifting Light group exhibition.

Gill Gatfield's recent painting, Silver Lining, has been chosen as a finalist work in the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton. The work can be viewed through 1 March. Further information at the WSA web site here. Gatfield will also be installing a new work in March/April for the Physics Room off-site Kiosk project in Christchurch.

Jill Kennedy was the recent 2009 winner of the Starving Artist Award. In conjunction with this award and recent funding from Creative New Zealand and the NZ Film Comission, Kennedy intends to complete her New Educational Series. Parts 1 and 2 of the animated video triology can be viewed and purchased from City Art Rooms. Better Military Modelling was recently screened at the Tauranga Art Gallery and Bridge Art Fair Berlin.

City Art Rooms is pleased to introduce painter Brendan McGorry. McGorry was a recent finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, COCA Art Award, and NZ Painting and Printmaking Award. His extraordinary expressionist paintings are inspired by Italian frescoes and personal narratives. Read about his 2006 Italy trip. City Art Rooms will feature recent work by the artist in our window space to coincide with the 3 March opening of little rain.
  
Artist Updates - December 2008

Jill Kennedy’s animations will be shown alongside artist Mark Braunias at the Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui from Dec 6, 2008 – March 2009. The work debuted at the Tauranga Art Gallery earlier this year. Kennedy’s Better Military Modelling is also currently on view thru the 14th December at the Tauranga Art Gallery.
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
www.sarjeant.org.nz/

Tauranga Art Gallery
www.artgallery.org.nz

Gill Gatfield’s will present a newly conceived sculptural work for headland SCULPTURE ON THE GULF 2009. This public outdoor sculpture exhibition opens to the public on Friday 23rd January.

For further information, please visit: http://www.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz/

Young Sun Han presents Chimera at the Bridge Art Fair Miami in association with the Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago. He will debut a new performance entitled 24 Hour Embrace at the Swimming Pool Project Space on New Year’s Eve 2009.
Bridge Art Fair Miami, 4 - 7 December 2008
http://www.bridgeartfair.com/miamiindex.html
Opening on Saturday 13th December, Han is exhibiting in this year’s Goodman Suter Contemporary Art Biennial curated by Anna-Marie White. The Maui Dynasty is a group exhibition examining the influences of Maori, Pacific Island, and Asian cultures in New Zealand contemporary art. Other exhibiting artists include: John Edgar, Brett Graham, Janet Green, Niki Hastings-McFall, Hoon Li, Simon Kaan, Virginia King, Richard Orjis, John Pule, Joe Sheehan, and John Walsh.
Maui Dynasty
Suter Gallery, Nelson
13 December 2008 – 22 March 2009
http://www.thesuter.org.nz


City Art Rooms is pleased to announce a special performance by Polyphonics duo – James McCarthy and Clinton Phillips with Sam Morrison, and Phil Dadson. They are a “specially put together group of awesomely ingenious instrument inventors, tinkerers, tamperers and musical space cadets.”
 
Presented in association with COT5 (Cheese on Toast 5th birthday festival)
with support from SOUNZ and the KROAD Business Association
 
SHIFTING CITY SOUND PLAINS
A one-day mini festival of explorative listening
@ Cross Street Studios
Upstairs, 27 Cross Street,
Newton, Auckland 1010
(09)3691132
 
CONCERT 8pm
(punctual 8:30pm beginning)
$7/$5
Young Blood Salon 2008
The Young Blood Salon returns to recognise student artists and offer exhibition opportunities outside of school. A Jury of emerging curators will select one winning artist to host a solo project at City Art Rooms in 2009. This year's prize package also includes a $5,000 trip to Berlin courtesy of Beck's.

The 2008 Jury consisting of Judith Carnaby (former Off-site Coordinator, High Street Projects, Christchurch) and Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers (2008 Curatorial Intern, ARTSPACE, Auckland), chose 5 artists to represent this year's finalists exhibition.

Finalists are:
Caryline Boreham
Clara Chon
Trenton Garratt
Charles Ninow
Lance Pearce

Please join us on 2 December, 2008 for the announcement of the overall winner and to celebrate the end of the year!

Congratulations to Trenton Garratt, this year’s winner of the Young Blood Salon competition. His work Our House, an introspective and intriguing installation of terracotta strips, was selected over a hundred individual artworks as this year’s winner. 
Thank you to our Sponsors and Project Angels for the Bridge Art Fair!

City Art Rooms opened its two exhibitions at the Bridge Art Fair during a crowded Vernissage on 30th October. Once again, we would like to thank our primary sponsors: Air New Zealand, Red Bull, Framing Matters, and Frames by Daniel.

Our participation at the art fair would also not have been possible without special project angels who provided generous support towards logistics and the artists. The project angels are:

Rachel Dunne and Cameron Melhuish
Rob Garrett
Benjamin Hart
Michael Jonas
In Sook Kim and Patty Pohl
Greg Knight
Marie Le Mounier and Beat Streuli
Dean Organ
Barry Pilcher
Petra Prahl
James Wallace
Ryan Weber
Phillippa Wilkie and David Hoare

Thank you everyone!
City Art Rooms launches European tour

9 October - November, 2008
City Art Rooms' director Kylie Sanderson and curator Young Sun Han will fly into London to begin the leg of an expansive trip which aims to promote New Zealand artists on an European stage. Attending the Frieze Art Fair (London), FIAC (Paris), and Art Forum Berlin, they will be meeting with international curators, collectors, and gallerists in order to build networks and identify exhibition opportunities for their artists overseas. This work will culminate at the Bridge Art Fair Berlin where City Art Rooms will mount two separate exhibitions of mostly emerging NZ artists.

Bridge is an invitational satellite art fair for emerging galleries that coincides with the weekend of Art Forum Berlin, attracting thousands of visitors from across the world. Envisioned as a more experimental platform than traditional art fairs, Bridge eschews the white cube 'booth' model in favour of occupying an entire apartment block in the thriving Mitte district, which is home to the important Kunst-Werke (KW) Institute of Contemporary Art and leading Auguststrasse galleries. The site-specific location offers a unique experience in curating works, which will be integrated into the building's historic setting.

City Art Rooms will inhabit two rooms during the Bridge Art Fair. Room One will feature a two-person exhibition by photographer Geoffrey Heath & painter Helen Calder. Room Two will present new work in a re-formatted version of the UNLIMITED exhibition held at City Art Rooms earlier this year. The group show ties in with the gallery's latest publication, offering the perfect opportunity to promote New Zealand art through a book and exhibition format. Primary artists involved include: Cat Auburn, Kevin Capon, Liyen Chong, Gill Gatfield, Young Sun Han, Will Handley, Sam Hartnett, John Hurrell, Jill Kennedy, Owen Leong, Matt Molloy, Jessica Pearless, Clinton Phillips, and Kate Woods.

By using London as their strategic base, Kylie and Young will be in the heart of a thriving art world where they can research trends in the European market and experience the latest ideas in contemporary art.
Generous sponsors of City Art Rooms' involvement with this European tour and the Bridge Art Fair Berlin08 include: Air New Zealand, Red Bull, Framing Matters, and Frames by Daniel


Polyphonics )))

@ SOUND SKETCH
A weekend festival of sound performances
4 – 5 OCTOBER 2008
GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY
40 Queen Street
New Plymouth
SATURDAY 4 OCT

10.00am–5.00pm: Sound installation by Andy Hummel in response to the gallery’s exhibition Snow Ball Blind Time by Peter Robinson.

2.30pm: Panel discussion featuring Sound Sketch participants

6.00pm: An evening of performances from Brandon LaBelle (USA), Phil Dadson, Sam Morrison and Polyphonics: James McCarthy & Clinton Phillips.

Clinton Phillips has collaborated with artist James McCarthy to create a sculptural musical instrument, which will be performed live this weekend at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Don't miss it!
Artists Talk: Beautiful Terrors

Please join us for a talk with visiting artists Michele Beevors, Brit Bunkley, and Lynn Hurst in the gallery at 1pm, 10 September.
Artists, Accolades and 'Action!'
Several City Art Rooms artists this season have been selected as finalists in New Zealand's most generous contemporary art competitions.

Cat Auburn, Brit Bunkley (upcoming group exhibition in October), and Jessica Pearless are initial finalists for the Wallace Art Awards 2009. Their works will be exhibited at the James Wallace Arts Trust Gallery (305 Queen St, Auckland). 

Helen Calder and Young Sun Han are finalists in this year's Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award. 30 finalists were chosen amongst 253 entries this year by curator Natasha Conland. The works will be on display at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton from 23 August thru 30 November, 2008. 

Production recently wrapped up for artists Gill Gatfield and Matt Molloy, who will be featured on the upcoming season of TVNZ's, The Gravy. The television documentary series features innovative and emerging creative talents, with a special focus on visual arts in Aotearoa. Episodes will air later this year.
1st Birthday and Publication launch

City Art Rooms is celebrating our one year anniversary! We have organised a group exhibition to overview the gallery’s and artists’ accomplishments to date. The exhibition intends to convey the future direction of the gallery, as we solidify our identity as a space that promotes breakthrough artists and risk-taking projects.

We are also proud to debut works by new gallery artists: Helen Calder, Scott Eady, John Hurrell, Jessica Pearless, and Kate Woods alongside works of recently featured artists Kevin Capon, Paul Hartigan, Geoffrey Heath among other City Art Rooms artists.

Exhibition runs 23 July - 9 August, 2008
Public preview and DJ Party: Friday 25 July from 5.30pm

In conjunction with our one year anniversary, a new publication, UNLIMITEDA Year of City Art Rooms will be available for sale in the gallery from 25 July. The catalogue features 17 selected City Art Rooms artists who are all based in New Zealand. The perfect-bound book contains a portfolio of images by each artist with an introductory text about their practice.

To pre-order your copy, please contact: books@cityartrooms.co.nz

UNLIMITEDA Year of City Art Rooms
ISBN 978-0-473-13841-7

Exhibition Archive now live! Please visit our exhibitions page to view all of City Art Room's previous and upcoming exhibitions: http://www.cityartrooms.co.nz/CAR/ExhibitionArchive.aspx

Artist Matt Molloy is currently featured in a group exhibition at the Gus Fisher gallery curated by Andrew Clifford.

The Swarm: The world of insects
The Swarm is an exhibition that explores the complexities of collective intelligence, networked manoeuvres and crowd control. It takes its title and point-of-departure from the 1978 Irwin Allen film, which depicts a mutant strain of African bees that threaten to take over America. As a successor to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, it continues the theme of many apocalypse films before and after to undermine the sense of control adult humans maintain over their environment. These stories build tension by questioning what would happen if the ordinarily benign phenomena that continually surround and outnumber us, such as insects, rabbits, frogs, piranhas, children, computers or tomatoes, decide to organise against us.

What distinguishes The Swarm from The Birds is that the deadly bees seem to collectively have a single intelligence, strategically working together as a dispersed organism. The works in the exhibition have a similar effect, gathering individual elements together to create a group infrastructure that wields more power than the sum of its parts. More than just clones, the elements in each work interact in individual ways to form and exploit networks and communities that aid further distribution or viral proliferation.

Featuring artists: Gregory Bennett, Philip Dadson, Richard Killeen, Matt Molloy, Ani O'Neill, Elizabeth Thomson and an interactive internet work by Douglas Bagnall. Curated by Andrew Clifford.
Saturday 26 July 1pm, The Gus Fisher Gallery
Dr Jacqueline Beggs, Senior Lecturer at The University of Auckland's School of Biological Sciences, discusses the organisational structures of the insect world in response to the science fiction fantasies evoked by The Swarm.
Admission free
The Gus Fisher Gallery
74 Shortland Street, Auckland
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday, 12-4pm; closed Public Holidays
Phone: 9 373 7599 ext 86646
Email: gusfishergallery@auckland.ac.nz
Website: www.gusfishergallery.auckland.ac.nz
Jill Kennedy's New Educational Series - Canaries In Colour will play big screen at the NZ Film Festival - Homegrown Programme 3

AUCKLAND.
Homegrown: Programme 3
Friday 25-July-2008 5:45 PM Queen Street (Cinema 6) Saturday
26-July-2008 2:30 PM Queen Street (Cinema 6).

WELLINGTON
Homegrown: Programme 3
Friday 01-August-2008  6:15 PM Film Archive, Sunday 03-August-2008
6:00 PM Film Archive.
Mid-Year Updates

Several artists have been keeping busy during the mid-year travelling, teaching, receiving accolades, and being curated into new projects.

Gill Gatfield has an upcoming exhibition at City Art Rooms and was a finalist in this year's Anthony Harper CoCA Art Award. Her largest grass painting yet measures 1.5 x 1.2 metres and is on display in CoCA, Christchurch. She has also been selected for the Waiheke Headland Sculpture on Gulf, and the Blue Oyster in Dunedin will be including her work in the Performance Art Festival catalogue.

Sam Hartnett is off to Europe for 6 weeks and the U.S. later this year to complete a private commission in Los Angeles, California. He will be photographing in Europe in preparation for a new group exhibition at City Art Rooms in October. He recently participated in a group exhibition at the Physics Room, Christchurch.

Jill Kennedy has won a Creative New Zealand grant in the New Media category, which will go towards completing her 'New Educational Series' triology. The second installment 'Better Military Modelling' was recently selected for the Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto. 'Canaries in Colour', which debuted at City Art Rooms last year, is an official selection at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she will be present.

Young Sun Han's new works were recently featured on the international 'i heart photograph' blog. His work will also be included in an upcoming issue of CORPUS, an arts journal produced by the Aids Project Los Angeles. A new body of work is underway for inclusion in the 5th Goodman-Suter Contemporary Art Project at the Suter Gallery, Nelson.

Kevin Capon, Conor Clarke, Paul Hartigan, and Geoffrey Heath were reviewed in John Hurrell's art blog: http://eyecontactartforum.blogspot.com/ Geoffrey Heath and Sam Harnett are also included in the 'Te Tahi Maui' catalogue produced by Artstation.

Will Handley was reviewed by Ed Hanfling in the most recent issue of Art New Zealand. He has been supplementing his practice by art directing music videos.
 11 – 28 June, 2008
'Originals By' group exhibition at Rm 103 

Opening on 11 June, Rm 103 presents work by Michael Chal and last year's Young Blood Salon finalists Simon Findlay and Kathryn Tsui. For more information and other artists, visit: http://www.rm103.org

31 May 2008 - Sam, Conor, Geoffrey, Jill showing around Auckland
The Auckland Festival of Photography will feature several exhibitions and events dedicated to the medium. Don't miss these highlights!

Backyard Trophy curated by Sam Hartnett
@ Snowwhite Gallery thru 20 June
Where: Gate 1, Building 1, Unitec Campus, Carrington Rd, Pt Chevalier
Featuring: Conor Clarke, Sam Hartnett, Jill Kennedy, Allan McDonald, Haruhiko Sameshima, and Mark Smith

Te Tahi Maui
@ Artstation from 4 June - 21 June
Where: 1 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
Featuring: Duncan Cole, Davina Monds, Edith Amituanai, Sam Hartnett, Geoffrey Heath, Graeme Jennings, Jason Oxenham, Serena Stevenson

Panel Discussion from Te Tahi Maui artists
@ Artstation 7 June, 2:00pm
Panel includes: Geoffrey Heath, Greta Anderson, Sam Hartnett, Davina Monds, Serena Stevenson
 
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