Daniel Crooks is in Bullet Time at the City Gallery Wellington. Curated by Robert Leonard, the show closes this weekend (10 July). You can read Leonard's catalogue essay here.
Image: Daniel Crooks, Static No. 11 (Man Running) 2008

Running Towards Water continues upstairs to 8 July. Read more…
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, A Breath of Fairies (2016), oil on canvas, 350 x 300 mm

The Art Gallery of South Australia has acquired Michael Zavros' painting The Phoenix, which featured in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object. Read more…
Image: Michael Zavros, The Phoenix (2016), oil on canvas, 2200 x 2000 mm

Material Candour includes work by Gavin Hipkins, Richard Maloy and Daniel von Sturmer and runs to 22 July. Read More…
Image: installation view of Material Candour installation view, Starkwhite 2016, Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure (Variation) made with the support of the Asia/NZ Co-commissioning Fund, part of CNZ's Focus on Asia Initiative 

Seung Yul Oh's installation slit scan opened last night at the Tauranga Art Gallery and runs to 2 October.

Rebecca Baumann's Manoeuvres (2015) is in the exhibition New Romance: art and the posthuman at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.  The show, which has been curated by Anna Davis (MCA, Sydney) and Houngcheoi Choi (MMCA, Seoul), runs to 4 September. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Manoeuvres ((2015), flip-dot boards, control hardware, custom software, vinyl, steel. Software and control engineering by Future Perfect. This work was originally commissioned by the Fremantle Arts Centre

Our next show features a variation of Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure, presented in the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor. The presentation was with the generous support of the Asia Foundation and Creative New Zealand, delivered through their  Asia/NZ Co-comissioning Fund. The exhibition also includes Gavin Hipkins' The Port, a large 12-part photogram, and a suite of videos from Daniel von Sturmer's small world series (courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne). The exhibition runs from 28 June to 23 July.
Image: Richard Maloy, Yellow Structure 2016 (detail), cardboard, tape and acrylic paint, dimensions variable.

Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation closes at the Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday and then moves to the Christchurch Art Gallery. You can catch Fiona in conversation with her brother Neil at the Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday at 1pm.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Moonlight de Sade, 2010, C-type, courtesy Musee de l'Homme, Paris

Alicia Frankovich presents World is home plant (2016) in Trans-Coprporeal Metabolism – 12th edition of the Performance Project, Liste 2016 on 18 June. Read more…
Image: Liste press image

An installation view of Gavin Hipkins photograph The Coil in Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, the show runs to 14 August 2016.

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Running Towards Water runs upstairs at Starkwhite to 1 July.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pink and Peach Jubes with Brass Bowl, 2016, oil on canvas, 500 x 400 mm

100% Unicorn runs at Starkwhite to 25 June. Rather than running with an opening we will host a function on Wednesday 8 June, in Fiona's exhibition, to celebrate the honor bestowed on her by the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Fiona is a Knight in France's Order of Arts and Letters.
Images: Fiona Pardington, 100% Unicorn, Starkwhite 2016, installation views

This week we will be at the Auckland Art Fair (Booth C9) but the gallery will be open Tuesday – Friday 11am – 5.30pm and Saturday 11am – 3pm, or by appointment outside these hours.
Image: a new painting by Melbourne-based artist Laith McGregor for our group show at the art fair.

A collaborative work by Jim Speers and Clinton Watkins, with shanghai-based artist Li Xiao Fei (who was a guest artist at Starkwhite in 2013), features in the exhibition Tell Me A Story: Locality And Narratives at the Rockbound Art Museum, Shanghai. Curated by Amy Cheng and Hsieh Fong Rong, the exhibition runs from 28 May to 14 August.  Read more…
Images: Field Recordings, Let the Water Flow (2016) video stills

Rebecca Baumann presents new work in WA Focus at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 28 May to 22 August. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Mixed Feelings, 2012, Arduino controller, drive circuits/electronics, remote control, IR receiver, dimensions variable. Commissioned by GOMA for Contemportray Australia: Women

Alicia Frankovich has taken up Creative New Zealand's 2016 residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in New York. Her four-month residency runs to 31 August. Read more…
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Soft Water (detail) 2015, Olympic swimming pool steps and polished shells

Alicia Frankovich has been selected for Trans Corporeal Metabolisms, the 12th Performance Project of LISTE Art Fair Basel (14-19 June), curated by Eva Birkenstock. Read more…

Grant Stevens is represented in Pacific Real Time, the inaugural edition of Auckland Art Fair Project Programme curated by Jarrod Rawlins, curator at MONA, Hobart, and Simon Rees, Director, Govett Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth.

Two new paintings by Martin Basher on their way to New Zealand for our booth at the Auckland Art Fair (May 25-29).

Our next show by Fiona Pardington runs from 24 May to 18 June alongside her survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Flora Unicorn (2016), C type photograph, dimensions variable

Alicia Frankovich is in the exhibition Le Limbes at La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris. Curated by Caterina Riva (former director of Artspace, NZ), the exhibition run from 20 May to 16 July. Read more…
Images: The Ghost and the Comrade (top) and Soft Water (2015), Olympic pool stairs, polished shells (below)

We're presenting a group show at the Auckland Art Fair (25-29 May) – one that evolves over the five-day event. By rotating artists and works we can present a representative selection of Starkwhite artists and give works room to breath, rather than opting for an all-in salon hang. Our lineup for the Fair includes Melbourne-based artists Daniel Crooks who will stage his first solo show at Starkwhite in June/July.
Image: Daniel Crooks, Static No. 3 (underwater flight recording), 2010, digital video 16:9, colour stereo sound

Clinton Watkins exhibition lowercase runs at Starkwhite to 14 May. You can read a review of the show here.
Images: installation views of lowercase by Clinton Watkins

In a rare honor, photographer Fiona pardington will be named a Knight (Chevalier) in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, in a ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on 1 May.        

She is the first New Zealand visual artist to receive this honour, which recognises eminent artists and writers who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world. Other recipients include Sir Peter Jackson (who will also be named at the ceremony on 1 May), George Clooney, Olafur Eliasson, Hou Hanru, Cate Blanchette, Uma Thurman, Tim Burton, Rudolf Nureyev and William S. Burroughs.      

Pardington is receiving the award for her extraordinary, in-depth photographic work and research of the collections held in multiple French museums, recognized also in 2009 when she was awarded the Quai Branly Laureate award, La Residence de Photoquai.      

During her Laureate, which she completed in 2010, she created several bodies of work from the various museum collections, the most renowned being The Pressure of Sunlight Falling were she photographed the casts taken by French phrenologist Dumoutier who was on board Dumont d'Urville's voyage through the Pacific in 1837-1840.      
Fiona Pardington, Portrait of a life-cast of Matoua Tawai (right profile), Aoteroa/New Zealand 20101, courtesy of the Musee de l'Homme, Paris

Gavin Hipkins' latest short film New Age (2016) will have its world premiere in the prestigious International Competition at the 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.  Oberhausen is one of the leading international film festivals dedicated to short film as a specific medium of artistic expression. In New Age, Hipkins calls on passages from a nineteenth century spiritualist manual. Set within the ritual landscape of Avebury’s stone circles, Hipkins' film imagines a solstice celebration in which spiritualism and spirit photography are revisited in the twenty-first century.

Seung Yul Oh was one of six artists invited to San Francisco recently to experiment with Google Chrome's latest Tilt Brush app that enables artists to use virtual reality to paint space around them. This link takes you to Oh's session.

Gavin Hipkins is represented in Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph at the Govett-Brester Art Gallery. Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, the exhibition explores the cameraless mode of photography from its inception in the 1820s through to contemporary practice by artists like Hipkins. The show runs from 29 April to 14 August 2016.
Gavin Hipkins, The Coil 1998. 32 silver gelatin pints each 510 x 400 mm

Matt Henry shares the physical and aural boundaries of Goya Curtain (Tokyo) with Madoka Kouno in the exhibition Personal Recordings, opening 22 April 2016.

In January we presented a solo exhibition by Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC). It's the third solo Zavros show we have presented at art fairs – it follows presentations at at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2014 and Art Basel Hong Kong in 2015 – and it was our fourth participation in ALAC. You can also read our release and see more images of artworks presented at ALAC here. And we have a piece of writing on Zavros by Robert Leonard, published as a PDF, which is available on request (email us at contact@starkwhite.co.nz)
Images: Installation views of Michael Zavros' solo exhibition at Art Los Angeles Contemporary (2016).

Rebecca Baumann is nearing the end of her three-month, Australia Council-funded residency at the Helsinki International Artists Programme where she is researching new works stemming from her interest in color, light and time.
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Improvised Smoke Device, 2010

Daniel Crooks is showing in Bullet Time at the City Gallery Wellington. Curated by Robert Leonard, the exhibition showcases two artists (Crooks and Steve Carr) who explore themes of time. It also places them in conversation with two historical photographers and pioneers of motion study Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton. Read more…

Crooks is represented by Starkwhite and will present his first solo show at the gallery at the end of June.
Image: Daniel Crooks, Train No. 10 (Onwards Backwards), 2012, currently showing in Bullet Time at the City Gallery Wellington

The Christchurch Art Gallery has acquired Fiona Pardington's Still Life with Wild Wheat and Freesias, one of the works presented recently by Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong (2016).
Image: Fiona Pardington, Still Life with Wild Wheat and Freesias, 2011, dimensions variable

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has selected Michael Zavros' Bad Dad as its 2016 appeal acquisition, enabling QAG | GOMA to acquire one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings for its collection. 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

Our next exhibition, lowercase by Clinton Watkins, runs from 19 April to 14 May. There won't be an opening for this exhibition, but we will be hosting events with the artist throughout the show. Watch this space for more information.
Image: Clinton Watkins, Mono (2015) video still

 

Installation views of Whitney Bedford's exhibition Lost and Found which closes on Thursday 14 April. Read more…