Angela Lane paints wondrous scenes of atmospheric and celestial phenomena. Mysterious messengers or omens hover in the skies, just in sight but almost always beyond our comprehension. Her small landscapes are grounded in the real world but seek out otherworldly or preternatural experiences. They ask us to look up and out, but also back — […]
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In 2015 a number of plans were floated to redevelop the interior of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. One idea proposed the opening up of the entire ground floor space. The north-facing windows at the far end of the Hancock Gallery would be removed, and replaced with a second entrance, directly opposite the existing […]
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There was once a great paint-off between 5th century BC artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius. A master of illusionism, Zeuxis’s painting of a bunch of grapes was so realistic that birds flew up and attempted to eat the sweet fruit. In its ability to outperform reality, Zeuxis’s art sets out a number of relationships between painting, […]
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LA artist Petra Cortright gives analogue painting a digital upgrade. Her paintings are made entirely in Photoshop, using images, filters, and effects appropriated from Pinterest, Google Images, and other image-generating web sites. She breaks down and reintegrates this amassed material into a virtual palette of tones and textures with which she paints densely-layered, slowly-morphing abstractions. […]
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Martin Basher aligns painting and sculpture with the slick, ultra-bright aesthetics of commercial product and retail display. Seeking out contemporary expressions of utopia and the sublime, his work takes its colours from the sun-drenched imagery of exotic-holiday deals, alcohol advertising, and other commercial sources. His abstract stripe paintings recall the fluorescent lighting and display devices of store-front architecture. In his installations, […]
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