Michael Zavros is an artist who paints beautiful things beautifully. His subjects include European palaces, gardens and follies; up-market men’s fashion, flowers, luxury cars and jewellery; Lipizzaner dressage horses and Japanese pedigree onagadori chickens. It is often said that Zavros’ subject is beauty itself, but it is more generally the symbols of status. His canon … Michael Zavros | Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2016
BOOTH DO4 Mirroring Sydney Contemporary’s positioning as an emergent international art fair, Starkwhite will take a more international approach this year, presenting work by artists based in China, Germany, Korea and the United States as well as New Zealand and Australia. And the gallery will present more work than usual in a booth partitioned into … Sydney Contemporary 2015
Starkwhite will present an artist’s project by Laith McGregor (AUS) in Installation Contemporary, which has been curated by Ivan Muniz Reed, Glenn Barkley and Holly Williams for this year’s edition of the fair. McGregor will float three large tarpaulins over an aisle in the main hall at Carriageworks – works he made during a twelve-month … Laith McGregor | Installation Contemporary | Sydney Contemporary 2015
Starkwhite will present an exhibition by Australian artist Michael Zavros at Art Basel Hong Kong from 15 to 17 March 2015. Zavros will show a suite of new paintings alongside a series of photographic works featuring male model superstar, Sean O’Pry. Zavros is an aesthete: he paints beautiful things beautifully. His subjects include fairytale palaces, … Michael Zavros | Art Basel Hong Kong 2015
Nearly a year to the date since Covid decimated our 2020 art fair programme we’re delighted to take part in the Auckland Art Fair from 24-28 February 2021. Taking an expansive double booth we’ll present a solo project by Jonny Niesche featuring an installation of a new body of wall and floor based sculptures. A … Auckland Art Fair 2021
Starkwhite is delighted to participate in Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020, an online edition of Sydney’s international art fair. Our on-line booth features works by Martin Basher (US/NZ), Whitney Bedford (US) and Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR). The fair runs from 1-31 October 2020.
The 2020 edition of the Auckland Art Fair has been cancelled and replaced by the Virtual Fair, presented entirely online. We had planned to present exhibitions in two facing booths with a space in between for sculpture: a solo show by Fiona Pardington with new works from her important Huia series, recent photographs from TIKI: … Virtual Fair | Auckland Art Fair 2020
NOTE: The 2020 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong has been cancelled due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. Starkwhite will present a solo exhibition by New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington at Art Basel Hong Kong, 2020. The exhibition has been selected for the prestigious Kabinett section, which features just 30 solo or paired presentations by … Fiona Pardington | Art Basel Hong Kong Kabinett 2020
Note: The 2020 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong has been cancelled due to the outbreak of Coronavirus. Starkwhite will present Yuk King Tan’s Crisis of the Ordinary in Encounters, the curated section of Art Basel Hong Kong 2020. The artist will expand her 2019 installation of Crisis of the Ordinary at Starkwhite as a … Yuk King Tan | <em/>Crisis of the Ordinary</em> | Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters 2020
Starkwhite will present the work of Rebecca Baumann, Jonny Niesche, and Gemma Smith at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 13-16 February 2020. Uniting these three Australian artists is an abiding interest in the interrelationships between form, colour, light, movement, and time. The intimate relationship between colour and emotion is joined by movement and time as … Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2020
Starkwhite will present two exhibitions at Sydney Contemporary from 12 – 15 September 2019. In one space we will stage works by Martin Basher (US/NZ) and Rebecca Baumann (AUS), and in the adjacent space we will present a group show featuring gallery artists including Whitney Bedford (US), Laith McGregor (AUS), Ani O’Neill (CI), Fiona Pardington … Sydney Contemporary 2019
For the VIP preview and vernissage on Wednesday 1 May and following two days of the Fair (2 & 3 May) Starkwhite will present a solo exhibition by John Reynolds, further developing his ongoing Missing Hours project. Over the weekend we will move to a group show of works by selected artists represented by the … Auckland Art Fair 2019
Booth 1C03 Starkwhite will present works by two artists who illustrate the way modernism and Maori art have intersected in the contemporary art of New Zealand – our senior Maori artist Paratene Matchitt (1933-) and the pioneering abstract artist Gordon Walters (1919-1995). Two decades after his death, Gordon Walters continues to be an influential figure … Paratene Matchitt, Gordon Walters | Art Basel Hong Kong 2019
Starkwhite will present portraits by Billy Apple® (NZ/US) and Michael Zavros (AUS) at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, from 13-17 February 2019. With David Hockney and others, Billy Apple® was part of the new wave of British Pop art, grouped together in the Young Contemporaries exhibitions of 1960, 1961 and 1962. Later in the 60s his … Billy Apple®, Michael Zavros | Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2019
Starkwhite will present a group show at Sydney Contemporary, from 13-16 September, featuring the work of pioneer experimental filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, along with works by contemporary practitioners Rebecca Baumann, Seung Yul Oh and Michael Zavros. New Zealand born artist Len Lye (1901-1980) is recognised internationally as a pioneer in the field of … Rebecca Baumann, Len Lye, Seung Yul Oh, Michael Zavros | Sydney Contemporary 2018
In partnership with the Walters Estate, Starkwhite will present pioneer abstract artist Gordon Walters at the Auckland Art Fair from 23 – 27 May 2018 and at the gallery from 29 May to 16 June. Gordon Walters (1919-1995) is best known for his paintings employing the koru, the curving bulb form from Maori moko and … Gordon Walters | Auckland Art Fair 2018
From the Collection 2018, site-specific vinyl installation. The From the Collection series began in 1987 with a painting commissioned by the Bank of New Zealand. Since then, it has attracted a broad range of corporate, private, and public clients. Each work in the series is commissioned by a collector, whether individual or collective, operating at … Billy Apple® | Auckland Art Fair Projects 2018
‘The scientist tries to name things, the artist tries to avoid naming things.’ Alan Lightman John Reynolds will run a soap box symposium at the Auckland Art Fair where visitors can engage in one-to-one encounters and conversations with the artist in a booth designed with architect Malcolm Walker. The conversations will be fuelled by ‘The … John Reynolds | <em>Soap Box Symposium</em> | Auckland Art Fair 2018
Starkwhite will present new work by Fiona Pardington (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS) at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 in an exhibition titled Beyond Surface Affect. Both artists produce strikingly beautiful artworks – Pardington with her large-format photographs and Zavros with his trademark photo-realist paintings – where something on the surface is the source of something … Fiona Pardington, Michael Zavros | <em>Beyond Surface Affect</em> | Art Basel Hong Kong 2018
Starkwhite will present works by Laith McGregor (AUS) and Danie Mellor (AUS) at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 25 – 28 January, 2018. There will also be a by-invitation vernissage on 24 January. During his travels in South East Asia, Laith McGregor has been exploring the conceptual foundations of portraiture, from primitive mark making through … Laith McGregor and Danie Mellor | <em>So Long until we meet again</em> | Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2018
17-21 January 2018 Dialogues is a guest-curated section of Art Projects, curated by Misal Adnan Yildiz, previously Artspace Director. It consists of five pairs of UK-based and international galleries. AS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTION: FORM IS FEMALE A show focusing on spatial relationships between internal tangents, geometry, frameworks pathways and codes from female points of abstract … Fiona Pardington | London Art Fair Dialogues 2018
Starkwhite will present a two-person exhibition by Fiona Pardington (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS) at this year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary. The fair runs from 7 – 10 September with a by-invitation VIP preview on 6 September. Pardington presents four new works, two of which are a part of her recent body of work Nabokov’s Blues: The … Fiona Pardington and Michael Zavros | Sydney Contemporary 2017
Richard Maloy and Clinton Watkins have been selected by curator Serena Bentley for this year’s video programme at Sydney Contemporary. Richard Maloy The following extract is from Try and Try Again, an essay on the practice of Richard Maloy, published Broadsheet an Australian art journal, 2010, by Martin Patrick, an American art critic and historian … Richard Maloy, Clinton Watkins | Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary 2017
Daniel Crooks will present The Subtle Knife in the film section of Art Basel Hong Kong curated by Li Zenhua. Synopsis: A continuous tracking shot through railed spaces in the Australian landscape/cityscape, seamlessly stitched together, moves through a fragmented reality. Forks diverging from the central line tempt us with other possible journeys, and there are … Daniel Crooks | <em/>The Subtle Knife</em> | Art Basel Hong Kong Film 2017
In 2007 Starkwhite applied for the Statements section of the venerable Art Basel art fair, the first time the gallery had applied to participate in a fair. It was a long shot and to our surprise we were accepted with a project by artist Dane Mitchell. Starkwhite was then accepted into the even loftier (and … Not Another Art Fair | Auckland Art Fair 2021