Permanent Exhibitions From - Auck Art Gallery
Main Gallery - Exhibitions and Public Programme
until
December 1999.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS FROM THE GALLERY’S COLLECTIONS
Gallery 1 Historical New Zealand
Art FREE ENTRY
An exhibition of portraiture, history and
lanscape painting from colonial New Zealand art. It includes
a selection of portraits by Goldie and Lindauer, as well as
the display Visible Women featuring works by New Zealand’s
early women artists.
Gallery 2 The Journey is the
Destination FREE ENTRY
A display of works by New
Zealand artists such as Tony Fomison, Gretchen Albrecht, Pat
Hanly and Laurence Aberhart, which contrasts how they
explored issues of identity, place and memory during the
1960s.
Gallery 5 Divine Inspiration FREE
ENTRY
European art from the 12th to 17th Centuries.
Linked by their religous themes, the works in this
exhibition come from the Mackelvie Trust Collection and give
a broad coverage of the developments that took place during
the transition from Medieval through Renaissance to Baroque
art.
Gallery 6 Pavilioned in Splendour FREE ENTRY
A
dense Salon-style installation of European paintings and
sculptures covering the 16th to early 20th
centuries.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 3 Andy &
Friends Until 14 November FREE ENTRY
Works from the
Gallerys collection by artists such as Roy Lichenstein,
James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, R. Kitaj and Claes
Oldenburg who were working at the same time as Andy
Warhol.
Gallery 4 Ukiyo-e, The Art of the Floating World
Until 14 November FREE ENTRY
An exhibition of Japanese
woodblock prints from the Edo period (1603-1863) which
record moments of respite from a highly structured
society.
Gallery 4 Face to Face 1 October - 16
January
An exhibition of self portraits by New Zealand
artists as diverse as Frances Hodgkins, Christopher Perkins,
Lois White, Colin McCahon, Jeffrey Harris, Tony Fomison,
Philip Clairmont and Peter Peryer, showing a range of art
periods, styles and interpretations of how they see
themselves.
Galleries 7,8,9,10,11,12 & 13
THE WARHOL
LOOK: GLAMOUR, STYLE, FASHION Until 14 November
$12,
Conc. $10
Andy Warhol - cultural phenomenon,
controversial pop artist, illustrator, photographer, film
producer,publisher, costume designer, painter and icon of
his time - is celebrated in this major new exhibition.
Acknowleged as this decade’s landmark exhibition of Warhol’s
art, The Warhol Look examines Warhol’s fascination with
glamour, style and fashionability. Including more than 500
objects from the Andy Warhol Museum and other international
collections, it presents a selection of Warhol’s own
paintings, films, fashion designs and photographs along with
the works of 60 other contemporary artists and
designers.
New Gallery
$4, Conc. $2 entry charge
applies
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Galleries 4,5,6 and the
upper foyer.
Stories we tell ourselves: The Paintings of
Richard Killeen Until 5 December. The first major survey of
Killeen’s work, this exhibition presents work from Killeen’s
early paintings through to his later cut-out works. A common
theme throughout the exhibition is how the stories we tell
ourselves shape and form our personal and political
identities.
Gallery 3 New Zealand The Millennium: The
Shadow Catchers
Until - 3 October
A millennium
exhibition of photographs by local and international
photographers capturing moments throughout New Zealand
between February to March this year.
Window Work: Atea by Dion Hitchens, Until 3 September Atea uses the traditions and technologies of two different cultures, European and Maori, to create a work which is evocative of both.
Events Entry to the public programme is with the
exhibition ticket. Events may be subject to
change.
SEPTEMBER
1 pm Wed 22
Talk - Visible
Women: a gallery talk by Kendrah Morgan, Assistant Curator,
New Zealand Art. Gallery’s main building Gallery 1.
6 pm
Thurs 23
Lecture - The Warhol Look, Style Glamour
Fashion.
‘A Pop Phenomenon: The Art of Andy Warhol’.
Chris Saines, Director, Auckland Art Gallery.
Auditorium, admission $5 $3 Conc.
1 pm Sat 25
Talk
- The Stories we tell ourselves: The Paintings of Richard
Killeen Dr Claudia Bell, University of Auckland, will
discuss aspects of social change reflected in Richard
Killeen’s imagery.
New Gallery, Exhibition
admission
Friends 10.30 am Wed 29
Coffee morning & tour
- Ron Brownson, Curator, New Zealand and Pacific Art, takes
a tour of Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Tribute to New
Zealand. Coffee $1
1 pm Wed 29
Talk - Top of the Pops,
a gallery talk in this display of American, British and New
Zealand Pop Art. Mary Kisler, Mackelvie Curator,
International Art. Galllery’s main building Gallery 3
6 pm
Thurs 30
Lecture - The Warhol Look, Style Glamour
Fashion. ‘Glass, Death and Fashion: Warhol and shopping’ a
lecture by Allan Smith, Curator, Contemporary Art
Auditorium, admission $5 $3 Conc.
OCTOBER
1 pm Sat
2
Talk - The Stories we tell ourselves: The Paintings of
Richard Killeen A gallery talk by the artist. New Gallery,
by admission
Friends 10.30 am Wed 6
Coffee morning
& tour - View Visible Women with Kendrah Morgan, Assistant
Curator, New Zealand Art. Coffee $1
1 pm Wed 6
Talk -
Face to Face, a talk on self portrait’s from the Gallery’s
collection.
Kendrah Morgan Assistant Curator, New
Zealand Art. Gallery’s main building Gallery 4.
Thurs 7
Open Late until 8:00, last admission at 7:00pm
Event -
The Warhol Look, Style Glamour Fashion. Fifteen minutes and
counting: Evenings with Icons, 6:30 & 7:30? Warhol was drawn
to the flamboyant subculture of drag, and attracted to the
idea of personal transformation. In Fifteen minutes and
counting, icons of our own subculture tell their stories
using a combination of performance and
dialogue.
Exhibition admission
Friends 10.30 am Wed
13
Coffee morning & tour - View The Warhol Look Glamour,
Style, Fashion with Allan Smith, Curator, Contemporary Art.
Coffee $1
Thurs 14 Open Late until 8:00 -last admission at
7:00pm
Event - The Warhol Look, Style Glamour Fashion.
Fifteen minutes and counting: Evenings with Icons, 6:30 &
7:30 Warhol was drawn to the flamboyant subculture of drag,
and attracted to the idea of personal transformation. In
Fifteen minutes and counting, icons of our own subculture
tell their stories using a combination of performance and
dialogue.
9:00 am - 4:00 pm Sat 16
Seminar -
Stories we tell ourselves: A seminar Dr Francis Pound,
Laurence Simmons, Anna Miles and others present lectures
which explore different aspects of this artist’s work.
Registration for this day-long seminar is essential, please
call 307 7728 or collect the form from the Gallery.
Auditorium $25 $20 Conc.
Friends 10.30 am Wed
20
Visit - Gary Nash’s Glass Art studio
$5
Thurs 21 Open Late until 8:00 -last admission at
7:00pm
Event - The Warhol Look, Style Glamour Fashion.
Fifteen minutes and counting: Evenings with Icons 6:30 &
7:30 Warhol was drawn to the flamboyant subculture of drag,
and attracted to the idea of personal transformation. In
Fifteen minutes and counting our own icons of this same
subculture tell their stories using a combination of
performance and dialogue.
Thurs 28 Open Late until 8:00
-last admission at 7:00pm
Fashion Event - The Warhol
Look, Style Glamour Fashion ‘Take a walk on the wild
side’The Warhol Look: A Fashion Show 6:30pm Wild fashion
influenced by The Warhol Look and designed by top fashion
students from Auckland Institute of Technology. A cat-walk
show with professional models from Nova Models groomed by
Cut Above in an evening that combines glamour, style and
fashion. Enjoy a walk on the wild side of fashion as well as
refreshments and a another chance to view The Warhol Look:
Style Glamour Fashion.
Exhibition
admission
NOVEMBER
Friends 1 pm Wed 3
Lecture -
Cousens Jewellery Fingers Free Meet Lower Grd Flr.
6 pm
Thurs 4
Lecture - The Warhol Look, Style Glamour Fashion.
‘Warhol the Filmmaker: after Kiss,Haircut, Eat.’ Ron
Brownson, Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art
Auditorium,
admission $5 $3 Conc.
1 pm Sat 6
The Warhol Look,
Style Glamour Fashion
Films - A selection of films by
Andy Warhol, Programme 1
Auditorium, admission $5 $3
Conc.
Friends 10.30 am Wed 10
Visit - North Shore City
Art Awards. Coffee and muffins $6
1 pm Sat 13
The
Warhol Look, Style Glamour Fashion
Films - A selection
of films by Andy Warhol, Programme 2
Films Auditorium,
admission $5 $3 Conc.
Friends 10.30 am Wed 17
Visit -
North Shore potter Graeme Storm. $5
Sat 20
Stories we
tell ourselves: The Paintings of Richard
Killeen
Children’s workshops - ARTWORKS tutor Tanja
Nola
Telling Stories Tall and Short, ages 5-7years,
10:30-11:45
Pieces of a Picture Puzzle, ages 8-12years,
12:15-2:15
New Gallery Studio, enrolment essential ph.
Michael 307 7728
6 pm Tues 23
Lecture - The analysis
of synthetic paint binders. Dr Tom Learner from the Tate
Gallery, London presents a lecture on his research into
analytical techniques of 20th century artists’painting
media. Late last year Dr Learner carried out analysis of
samples from paintings by Colin McCahon for the Gallery.
Auditorium, Free.
Friends 6.30 am Tues 23
Christmas
party - In the exhbition The Lure of the Sea, introduced by
Mary Kisler, the exhibition’s curator.
Sat 27
Stories
we tell ourselves: The Paintings of Richard
Killeen
Children’s workshops - ARTWORKS tutor Tanja
Nola
Telling Stories Tall and Short - ages 5-7years
10:30-11:45
Pieces of a Picture Puzzle ages 8-12years
12:15-2:15
New Gallery Studio, enrolment essential ph.
Michael 307
7728