Michael Zavros' The Phoenix is the centerpiece of his installation of still life paintings in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, which opened this weekend at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The installation includes The Twins, two arrays of flowers that perform (slowly) for viewers. Over a period of days the pure white flowers undergo a transformation, hybridising into exotic strains, tipped and striped with painterly washes of pink and blue. 
Image: installation view of Michael Zavros' room in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.   

Fiona Pardington has been selected for the inaugural edition of the Honolulu Biennial, scheduled for Spring 2017. The biennial is being curated by Fumio Nanjo, director of the Mori Art Museums, Tokyo. He has served as commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1997), member of the jury for the Turner Prize (1998), co-curator of the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1999), jury member of the Golden Lion Prize of the Venice Biennale (2005) and artistic director of the Singapore Biennale (2006, 2008).
Image: Fiona Pardington, Still Life with Rabbit. Grass and Unicorn Blood, Ripirpo Beach 2014.

Alicia Frankovich has been awarded the CNZ-funded 2016 International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) residency in New York.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Becoming Public: Actor, 2015, C-type print, 75.2 x 50.3cm, and The Female has Undergone Recent Manifestations, 2015, curtain, ribbon, wood, cable and cord, dimensions variable.

Starkwhite is collaborating with Artspace, presenting a parallel exhibition that runs alongside THE BLL, a program of exhibitions and events marking the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Homosexual Law reform Act in New Zealand Aotearoa. THE BILL begins with a solo exhibition by Taranaki-based artist Fiona Clark, with other photographs upstairs at Starkwhite where she performed as an art student when the gallery space was the home of the infamous Pink Pussy Cat. The Starkwhite exhibition runs from Saturday 20 February. All photographs in our exhibition are courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.

Image: Michael Zavros, The Phoenix, 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 200 cm

Jin Jiangbo's interactive video projection Rules of Nature is showing in Chinese Whispers at the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern). The exhibition is drawn from Uli Sigg's collection of contemporary Chinese art, most of which has been gifted (including Jin Jiangbo's piece) to M+, the Herzon & de Meuron-design art museum scheduled to open in Hong Kong in 2017.
Image: Installation view of Jin Jiangbo's  Rules of Nature at Starkwhite

The New Zealand section of the latest Asia Pacific Almanac (a round up of the high points of exhibitions in 2015) covers three Starkwhite shows: Martin Basher's Jizzy Velvet, Fiona Pardington's Childish Things and Gavin Hipkins' Block Paintings.
Images: Martin Basher, Jizzy Velvet, installation view; Fiona Pardington, Believe, 2015, pigment ink on Hahnemuhle Phot Rag; and Gavin Hipkins, Block Painting, 2015, pigment in on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 60 x 80cm

The latest issue of Art Collector also features articles mentioning Starkwhite's participation in Art Los Angeles Contemporary (a solo show by Michael Zavros) and Art Basel Hong Kong (a group show with Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters and Arnold Manaaki Wilson) along with an article on Collecting and Dealing Trends, including the way artists like Michael Zavros use Instagram.
Image: Michael Zavros, The Mermaid, oil on board, 22 x 30 cm

The latest issue of Art Collector has a double-page spread on Seung Yul Oh in the Curator's Radar section – “those artists who are currently attracting curatorial interest in Australia, New Zealand and further abroad via inclusion in public exhibitions and major acquisitions.”

Starkwhite will present an installation by Richard Maloy in the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong (2016) curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor.
Image: The installation of an earlier work by Richard Maloy for the Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA, Brisbane,

Starkwhite is delighted to present The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations by Berlin-based artist Alicia Frankovich, from 6 February to 5 March 2016. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. She will be present at the opening preview on Friday 5 February from 5.30 – 8pm.

These links take you to more on The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations and THE BILL.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Portrait of a Lady, 2016, inkjet print

Starkwhite reopens in February with an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Alicia Frankovich. Her exhibition opens on Friday 5 February, 5.30 to 8pm. Jim Speers' exhibition Hold 'til Wednesday continues upstairs.
Image: studio shot by Alicia Frankovich

We'll be at Art Los Angeles Contemporary next week presenting a solo exhibition by Michael Zavros. You can read more about our show here and follow us on @starkwhite and @ALAContemporary. The fair runs at the Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, from 28-31 January. You can find us at B13.
Image: Michael Zavros, We dance in the studio (to that shit on the radio), 2010, digital video, 5 mins duration

From 28-31 January we will present a solo show by Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, LA's international art fair. Read more…

Image: Michael Zavros, The Sunbather (2015), oil on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm

Seasons greetings from the team at Starkwhite. We'll be closed from 23 December and open by appointment from 11 January. Please call us on 3070703 or 0275 777128 if you would like to visit the gallery.
Image: Billy Apple, The Divine Proportion, 1996, pigment ink on archival papaer, 594 x 420 mm

Billy Apple is represented in International Pop, a groundbreaking historical survey that chronicles the global emergence of Pop Art from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Organized by the Walker Art Centre it is currently showing at the Dallas Museum of Art to 17 January 2106 before a final showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 18 February to 15 May 2016. Read more…
Image: Billy Apple, “A” for Apple, 1964, UV impregnated ink on canvas, Argon gas, mercury vapor, 15 mm coated yellow glass tubing, 30″ x 25″ x 3″ (762 x 635 x 75 mm

We are showing an installation of works on paper by Jim Speers upstairs in tandem with Fiona Pardington's The Popular Recreator downstairs Speers' exhibition runs to 19 December and then again from mid to late January following our summer break. We'll post our reopening date and summer hours next week.

Fiona Pardington's The Popular Recreator opens at Starkwhite on Friday 11 December, 6-8pm.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Owl, photograph fired onto steelite coupe plate, 30cm

In mid-December Starkwhite will launch Fiona Pardington's new suite of photographs fired onto ceramic plates, cups and saucers. The works document The Popular Recreator A Key to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements, an illustrated encyclopedic work on popular recreations published in the 1890s by Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Watch this space for the launch date.
Image: Fiona Pardington's Shadow Bunny (2015), photograph fired onto ceramic plate

Gavin Hipkins' exhibition Block Paintings continues this week to 5 December. You can read a review of the show here.

Rebecca Baumann's Reflected Glory is showing in NEW ROMANCE at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), South Korea. Curated by Anna Davis (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney) and Houngcheoi Choi (MMCA), the exhibition runs to 9 March 2016. Read more…

We'll be showing again at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 – our fourth presentation at this fair, starting with The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® (2013) and followed by solo shows by Gordon Walters (2014) and Michael Zavros (2015). In 2014 we also presented an installation by Rebecca Baumann in the Encounters section of the fair curated by Yuko Hasegawa. You can see a full exhibitor list for Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 here.
Images (from the top): Michael Zavros, installation view; Gordon Walters, installation view; Rebecca Baumann (Automated Colour Field (Variation V), detail; and The Immortaliatisation of Billy Apple®, installation view 

Fiona Pardington's survey show A Beautiful Hesitation continues at the City Gallery Wellington until 22 November. Read more…
Image; installation view of A Beautiful Hestation at the City Gallery Wellington.

Alicia Frankovich is in the lineup of artists for A SPACE IS A SPACE IS A SPACE, an exhibition, lecture and performance program at Deutsches Architect Centrum DAZ, Berlin from 11 September – 8 November 2015. Read more…

Next week we'll be at the second edition of Sydney Contemporary, the new fair launched by ART HK founder Tim Etchells in 2013 and directed by former gallerist Barry Keldoulis. This year we have taken one of the larger booths, which will be divided to create an exhibition space for a group show, which we will change over the course of the fair, and a smaller room, more akin to a stockroom, with a salon hang of artworks. We will also be represented in Installation Contemporary, the curated section of the fair, with a piece by Melbourne-based artist Laith McGregor.