Exhibition at DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. 2022
Notes to an unknown visitor
Category Archives: Selected Exhibitions
Houston Paintings
A selection of works exhibited at Art League Houston, March 22nd–May 4th, 2019.
In 2016, after moving to Houston, Texas from Auckland, New Zealand, my forays to local museum collections sparked a return to painting. Using photographic images from the book Houston’s Forgotten Heritage as a starting point, my paintings re-interpret the content of these historical images, and render new relationships to the present through my use of color. I went on to explore photographic images from other sources, including YouTube videos and children’s encyclopedias from the 1950s. My paintings employ the use of saturated color and meticulous techniques in a bid to tease out previously unnoticed details, to highlight the construction of the source images, or to emphasize the mythological or symbolic qualities that exist in the mundane. In these paintings, I use color and compositional elements in a non-natural way to jolt the viewer out of taking what they see for granted, nudging them to accept instability of history as told through photographic images.
To view all the works, along with their accompanying texts, go to the archived website.
Dreams Moons Circles Fictions
(and fragments found on the forest floor of disquietude)
A solo survey show of works (2003-2014) exhibited at the Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, February 2014
For this exhibition, the projects A Humid Day and Untitled (White Book) were released as e-books.
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A selection of works included in this solo survey show:
Untitled (Exportware)
Moon Bowl II
Monday
Body without Organs
Contemplating difference
Icons for observing points of the mind
Disappearance scheduled for Friday
She thought she was in a play when the whole scene had to be repeated again
You would, wouldn’t you? (For Ms AJ who remembers every minute of her life)
Hero
Familiar Spirit of The Cold Blooded Eater
Optimimsical
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
They are usually wearing white.
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images courtesy of Papakura Art Gallery.
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Click here for images of the opening on Papakura Art Gallery’s facebook page.
To download the e-books featured in the show, please follow this link for further information.
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dreams Circles Moons Fictions and fragments found on the forest floor of disquietude held at Papakura Art Gallery in February 2014. For images click here.
An introduction by Tracey Williams, and a catalogue essay by Dr. Cathy Tuato’o Ross.
Resolution
Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, August 2013
The Pleasantly Unnameable
Oh now, really? Well, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
Bling Master and the Pink Bananas
Demeter’s man disappearing under a fog of spots
Enough with the irrelevant information, the point is now here
If only windows could roll too!
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A cloud to think about.
Conflagration of a bad star releasing energy
A triangulated chain reaction.
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Measured response to: “This little fellow is quite content to be held up for inspection…”
Aye, she’s beautiful, isn’t she? (the Sublime Monster sings the Song of the Universe)
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds
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Enkyklios
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, February 2013
Ellipses elicit eligible elemental themes Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 336mm x 476mm x 35mm
Red apples
Green apples
Impossible to depict an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere
Now they make us plough the ground for sense
“Let us begin time” said the Old Man as he sped from darkness to light (with Age, Fertility, Death and Binary Systems)
Variegated groups of men Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 240mm x 639mm x 35mm
Aum, um… Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 240mm x 639mm x 35mm
They are usually flying.
They are usually wearing white.
Click here for the review on Eyecontact.
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Goyang Art Studio 2012 September-November
Open Studio 8
National Art Studio, Goyang, South Korea, October 2012
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Invocations
Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, April 2012
Archival inkjet print, edition of 3
These are part of a series of works exploring issues in self-imaging that of an identity embedded in the flux of migration and its relationship to mass media, this piece captures what seems to be semi-private, fleeting moments in a studio filled with nameless odds and ends.
Contemplating difference
Icons for observing points of the mind
Feeling ahead – peering into a dark hole
Autonomous Translocation of Forms
Abolishment of Time
Phases of Identification with such things as Nouns
Invocation from where no centre can hold
Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.
Disappearance scheduled for Friday and other works.
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Exhibited in Page Blackie Gallery and Melanie Roger Gallery 2011/2012
Preparation Form #1
Disappearance scheduled for Friday
She thought she was in a play when the whole scene had to be repeated again
Looking down one spotted that reality and mind are one and perhaps the same?
Once in a blue moon illusions detach from reality and float up into the sky, only to return again the next day slightly hungover
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Installation at Page Blackie Gallery, 2011.
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Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once
Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once
Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, September 2011
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Entering or Exiting, coming or going one wonders about the March of Time
Contemplating the eternal mind of Memory without the Body
Approaching with recklessness, drawing from the hilt with supernovas
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A Conflation of Fiction and Reality with a Switched On negation
Crinicultural Anxiety: An unsure fare-ye-well for the music of hair
The Eclipsing of Manners by a multitude of Retina Collapsing Patches
The Black Sunset wishes the Harlequin trade upon a Yellow room
Structural Constellations on the surface of a Neuro-Kinetic statement
Circles and Cycles make statistical claims and marks upon the Body
Interrupted Passageways through following an émigré
Time going Backwards with assistance
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Installation views.
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Entrance to Gallery 2
West wall
West and North wall
North wall
North wall
South Wall
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Exhibition catalogue with essay by Victoria Wynne-Jones can be downloaded here.
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Exportware
Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl, this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by feminist thinkers, appears.
Exhibited at Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, November 2010 & in various places.
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Ceramic decal images.
Untitled (Exportware)
Found bowls with ceramic decals fired onto them, and painted over with acrylic.
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Installation views at Page Blackie Gallery
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Photographic laser decals depicting a solitary woman in uncertain garb were fired onto found ceramic bowls. Alluding to trade routes of ceramics between Asia and Europe, this work speaks to the eventual migration of bodies from Asia to the rest of the world. Referencing Japanese souvenir ceramics in which an East Asian woman is drawn into a ceramic bowl this work also recalls ancient incantation bowls on which Lilith, an ambiguous female archetype, feared by some but also heralded as a symbol of female empowerment by modern feminist thinkers, appears.
Associated essay by Vera Mey.