Michael Zavros has just completed a one-month residency at Shanghai University's Public Art Coordination Centre. During his stay he combined studio work (new paintings) with exploratory visits to other workshops able to assist with sculpture projects. His partner Alison Kubler (co-author of Art & Fashion in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson) also gave a lecture on the art & fashion interface to students at Shanghai University.
Image: Michael Zavros in his residency studio at Shanghai University's Public Art Coordination Centre

Jim Speers' Crystal Spirit is showing in the exhibition In Play at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.  Read more…
Image: Crystal Spirit installed at Starkwhite (2009)

John Reynolds is at the McCahon House for a two week stay to undertake further research for his  ongoing exploration of Colin McCahon’s ‘missing hours’ when McCahon tragically went missing in the Botanical Gardens on the eve of the launch of his 1984 Sydney Biennale satellite retrospective I Will Need Words. Reynolds’ describes his project as part missing person’s archive, part pilgrimage, part art historical vagabondage.

FrenchBayDarkly… runs at Starkwhite to 17 May. Read more…
Image: John Reynolds, FrenchBayDarkly… 2017, oilstick on acrylic on linen, 3 x 5m

Rebecca Baumann installation Untitled (Exploded View) is showing at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to 25 June 2017. Read more…
Image: Installation view of Rebecca Baumann's Untitled (Exploded View) 2017

Fiona Pardington is showing a major new work Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle at the inaugural edition of the Honolulu Biennial, curated by Fumi Nanjo, director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington, Lycaeides melissa, 1, 2017. From the series Nabokov’s Blues: The Charmed Circle, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, size variable. With thanks Musée Cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland

This year we presented a group show at Art Basel Hong Kong exploring various approaches to composing motion, beginning with experimental filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye. Our presentation was with the generous support of Creative New Zealand and in association with the Len Lye Foundation and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Read more…
Image: view of the Starkwhite booth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017.

Martin Basher is presenting a solo show at this year's edition of The Armory Show, with his Los Angeles gallery Anat Ebgi. It's his second solo show at the fair, the first one staged by Starkwhite in 2012.
Image: installation view of Martin Basher's presentation at The Armory Show, 2017

Michael Zavros's survey exhibition Magic Mike, runs at the Newcastle Art Gallery to 28 May 2017. Read more…
Image: Michael Zavros, The Mermaid, 2016

Whitney Bedford's exhibition BARDO PARADE is showing at Galerie Art Concept, Paris until 1 April. Read more…
Image: Installation view of BARDO PARADE at Galerie Art Concept

Perimeter Editions will launch a new publication on Laith McGregor at Starkwhite on Tuesday 14 February from 5.30pm. Contributor to the book Robert Leonard (Chief Curator, City Gallery Wellington) will speak at the launch.

Starkwhite presented a group show at this year's edition of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (26-29 January 2017), with the generous support of Creative New Zealand. The artists in our line up were: Billy Apple, Martin Basher, Rebecca Baumann, Daniel Crooks, Richard Maloy, Laith McGregor, Seung Yul Oh and Michael Zavros.
Image: Seung Yul O, Pok Po (Black) 2017, fibreglass, stainless steel and two-pot automotive paint, 60cm (h)

Curated by Eva Birkenstock, Alicia Frankovich's solo exhibition outside before beyond opens at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf on 17 February. Read more…
Image: Alicia Frankovich, outside before beyond (2017), video still.

We open our 2017n exhibition programme with transaction works by Billy Apple®. Opening on 8 February, the exhibition evolves into a themed show curated by Artspace director Adnan Misal Yildiz. Image: Billy Apple, P.O.A.

Rebecca Baumann has been commissioned to make over Artspace Sydney by painting each gallery wall a different colour for the exhibition Superposition of three types which explores different approaches to colour abstraction. The exhibition opens on 10 February.
Image: A253 Pea Green, one of the colours Rebecca Baumann is using at Artspace.

Laith McGregor will take up a residency at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) this year. Founded in 1998, HIAP is the largest residency programme in the Nordic and Baltic region and the studios are on Suomenlinne Island, a world heritage site. McGregor's residency is funded by the Australia Council for the Arts.
Image: Laith McGregor, Howdy Doody (2016), pencil on paper

Daniel Crooks' video The Subtle Knife (2016) has been selected for the 2017 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong Film by curator Li Zenhua. The work was also exhibited at Starkwhite earlier this year in Daniel's first solo show with us titled Vanishing Point.
Image: video still from Daniel Crooks' The Subtle Knife

Starkwhite will present a group show at Art Basel Hong Kong (2017) exploring various approaches to composing or choreographing color, motion and movement. It will feature the work of pioneer experimental filmmaker Len Lye (NZ/US), along with works by contemporary practitioners Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS/NZ) and Alicia Frankovich (DE/NZ), who are all represented by Starkwhite. Like our recent exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, it will provide an historical context for a slice of contemporary practice in the region, this time by a group of innovative Australian and New Zealand-born artists who push boundaries in their work and view Lye as a source of inspiration.  Our presentation is with the generous support of Creative New Zealand.
Image: detail of one of Rebecca Baumann's automated colour field works

We'll be presenting a group show at Art Los Angles Contemporary (26-29 March 2017), LA's international art fair. Our lineup includes: Billy Apple (NZ), Martin Basher NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS), Laith McGregor (AUS), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS). Our presentation is with the generous support of Creative New Zealand.
Image: Richard Maloy, Blue (bag with air), 2106, digital photograph, 850 x 1000 mm

Starkwhite will be closed from 24 December to 10 January when we will be open by appointment to the end of the month. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Image: the flower of New Zealand's Pohutukawa, also known as the Christmas Tree

Starkwhite presentS Beyond Landscape from 17 November to 17 December 2016. The exhibition explores approaches to landscape informed by place, culture and history, through the photographs of Danie Mellor (AUS), Jin Jiangbo (CN) and Gavin Hipkins (NZ).
Image: Danie Mellor, on a noncorrelationist thought IX (2016), C-print on metallic paper, 80cm diameter

Fiona Pardington is in the exhibition On the Orgin of Art which opens this weekend at the Museum of Old and New, Hobart. Her works are in a section curated by Brian Boyd, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, University of Auckland. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington, Portrait of a life-cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa/New Zealand 2010, pigment inks on Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag. Courtesy of the Musee de l'Home, Paris

The Walters Estate has issued a limited edition screen print of the Painting No. 7. which is in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. For further details, including price, please email contact@starkwhite.co.nz or call +64 9 3070703.

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery (DPAG) has acquired Seung Yul Oh's interactive sculpture Periphery, seen here at Art Basel Hong Hong (2013) in the Encounters section curated by Yuko Hasegawa. The work also featured in the survey exhibition MOAMOA (2014) organised by the DPAG and the City Gallery Wellington.

Two paintings from John Reynolds' recent exhibition WalkWithMe… have been acquired for the Chartwell Collection which is housed at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,
Image: Unhinged Text (Dark Night) #1, 2016, acrylic paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 2100 x 1520 mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Huia winery has introduced a limited edition label from a commissioned photograph by Fiona Pardington and translated into the wine label by Neil Pardington. The label adorns the Huia Millennial Brut 2000 and the Huia Blanc de Blanc.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Inseparable Huia (2016)

 
Laith McGregor's exhibition Swallow the Sun opens on Saturday 1 October 5.30 – 7.30pm.

John Reynold's exhibition WalkWithMe… continues this week, closing Saturday 24 September. Upstairs we have a new suite of works from his ongoing exploration of Colin McCahon's missing hours. Read more…
Image: John Reynolds, Field Notes 5 (2016), acrylic paint, acrylic paint stick and graphite on paper, field notes board.

Upstairs at Starkwhite we are showing Matt Henry's Analogues to 14 October. Previously shown at Goya Curtain in Tokyo, the works in the exhibition appropriate specific graphic motifs found in the artist’s collection of video and audio media. 
Image: Matt Henry, Psycho (2016), acrylic on linen, cedar stretcher, 382 x 468 mm

On Thursday 22 September, 5 -7.30pm, we are co-hosting with AUP the launch of Anthony Byrt’s new book THIS MODEL WORLD: TRAVELS TO THE EDGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, published by Auckland University Press.

John Reynolds and Laurence Simmons will be in conversation tonight in WalkWithMe.. 5.30-7pm.
Image: John Reynolds, WalkWithMe…2016 (detail), acrylic paint and oil stick on linen, 2.1 x 10 metres.

Rebecca Baumann's Once more with feeling in Set in Motion. an exhibition exploring light, sound and motion through the work of Len Lye and four contemporary artists. Read more…
Image: installation view of Rebecca Baumann's, Once more with feeling (2014)

Fiona Pardington's Phantasma 2011 opens tonight at Parlour Projects and runs to 1 October 2016. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington Trompette des Mortes/Craterellus cornucopiodes 2011, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, collection of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (Musee Baria) Nice, and Musee du Quai Branley, Paris,

Matt Henry's Long Division opens today at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and runs to 27 November. Read more…
Image: installation view of Matt Henry's Long Division

In 1984 Colin McCahon tragically went missing on the eve of his survey exhibition I WILL NEED WORDS, staged as a satellite show of the 1984 Biennale of Sydney, In his new project WalkWithMe… John Reynolds speculated on the passible nature of those missing hours. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 30 August 6 – 8 pm.
Image: John Reynolds, WalkWithMe… 2016 (detail), silver marker and acrylic paint on linen, 2.1 x 10 meters

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has purchased Michael Zavros' Bad Dad for the gallery's permanent collection. Considered to be one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings, Bad Dad was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales) and featured in the exhibition Bad Dad at Starkwhite in 2014 and in our solo show of Zavros' work at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. 
Image: Michael Zavros, Bad Dad, 2103, oil on canvas 110 x 150 cm

The Auckland Art Gallery has acquired 49 works from John Reynolds Epistomadolgies series through a part purchase/part gift arrangement, adding to a suite of  22 works already in the gallery's collection.
Image: John Reynolds, Epistomadologies (32) 2001, oil stick on paper, 1000 x 700 mm

Alicia Frankovich's Earth is a Home Planet is showing in this year's TarraWarra Biennial, Endless Circulation, curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes. Read more…
Image: Tarrawarra Museum of Art

Starkwhite has been listed in the 500 Best Galleries Worldwide for the third consecutive year.

Gavin Hipkins' Romance (Tiger) ia showing in Beasts at the Christchurch Art Gallery. Read more…
Image: Gavin Hipkins, Romance (Tiger) 2004, C-type photograph, 1500 x 900 mm. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu