Gow Langsford Gallery

STOCKROOM HIGHLIGHTS | Each week we share an available work handpicked by one of our team with personal insights into why this work has resonated with them.

"I love the raw energy of this work, the intensity with which McCahon has laid down the colour. The sky feels alive, shifting under our gaze. This watercolour was painted the year McCahon finished his teaching role at Elam School of Art and was able to fully dedicate himself to his practice, with a studio at Muriwai. It is one of 10 watercolours McCahon painted with this title that were exhibited at Peter McLeavey Gallery and there is a feeling of joyous freedom throughout the series, along with a deep engagement with place, as is evident throughout much of McCahon’s work." - Hannah Valentine

Contact us for details.

Work Details:
Colin McCahon
The view from the top of the cliff, 1971
watercolour on paper
790 x 590mm
1050 x 740 x 60mm framed
signed The view from the top of the cliff Muriwai March 71 McCahon (pencil, t.l.-t.c.)

Today is the final day to view Max Gimblett 'Hands of Gold' closing today at 4pm at our City gallery.

Photo: Sam Hartnett.

View online: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/336-hands-of-gold-max-gimblett/

A collector has shared this stunning photo of the recent Aurora Australis in Queenstown featuring the silhouette of a David McCracken sculpture. It seems only fitting to share for Matariki.

Both of our galleries will be closed tomorrow (Friday 28 June), but we will be back open on Saturday from 10-4pm.

Mānawatia a Matariki!

STOCKROOM HIGHLIGHTS | Each week we share an available work handpicked by one of our team with personal insights into why this work has resonated with them.

"There is something utterly mesmerising about Reuben Paterson’s works. Despite them being created on a flat canvas surface, the glitter brings the works to life - they dance and dazzle as you walk past. This 2023 work Feels Like, I'm Inside of Flowers feels quintessentially Reuben; the use of traditional kōwhaiwhai patterning has been a mainstay of his practice for over 25 years and one that he revisits consistently. There is something about the glitter that brings back childhood memories of gluesticks and pottles of glitter going everywhere in the house, but unlike my 6-year-old self, Reuben has mastered the medium and taken it to the next level. I am always excited to see what he will create next." - Cass Pettifer

Get in touch for further details, or view online: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/227-reuben-paterson/works/26286-reuben-paterson-feels-like-i-m-inside-of-flowers-2023/

Work:
Reuben Paterson
Feels Like, I'm Inside of Flowers, 2023
glitterdust on canvas
915 x 610mm

Our Onehunga Gallery is open on Saturday from 10-4pm exhibiting new sculptures from David McCracken. Each work is meticulously fabricated from corten steel at a larger than life scale. The exhibition runs until 13 July.

Photo: Sam Hartnett.

View more online here: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/342-attraction-and-transmission-david-mccracken/

Introducing our new series Stockroom Highlights. Each week we will share an available work handpicked by one of our team with personal insights into why this work has resonated with them.

First up is Gallery Director, John Gow.

"I have been looking at this Walters and thinking what a gem it is. The subtleties of the colour shift in the black, the composition with the Koru at the base and the soft toned line across the top. I was in Gordon’s studio years ago watching him play with cardboard cutouts of a koru painting he was composing. Moving the elements around until he found the desired composition for the work he had in mind. I can just see him doing this for ‘Untitled’ 1974. He certainly attained a beautiful balance for this small but perfectly formed Koru painting."

Get in touch for further information, or view more online here: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/210-gordon-walters/works/26372-gordon-walters-untitled-1974/

Work:
Gordon Walters
Untitled, 1974
acrylic on canvas
484 x 355mm
560 x 435 x 45mm framed

Don't miss the opening day for David McCracken's 'Attraction and Transmission' at our Onehunga Gallery. We will be open from 10-4pm, with refreshments with the artist from 2pm.

Find us at 4 Princes Street, Onehunga, entrance off George Tce with plenty of parking on street.

View online here: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/342-attraction-and-transmission-david-mccracken/

This 2003 painting by Jacqueline Fahey has recently come in for sale at Gow Langsford from a private collection.

Born in Timaru in 1929, Jacqueline Fahey is one of New Zealand’s most iconic living artists. She is known for her distinctive style of painting, which incorporates narratives of domesticity and suburbia, interpersonal relationships, and critiques of restrictive gender roles.

Tragedy outside the Dairy II is a work from 2003. Portraying a suburban setting, the painting shows the titular tragedy in play. A figure lies prone and bleeding in front of a pedestrian crossing outside a dairy (not shown but signalled by the presence of quintessentially Kiwi streetside signs advertising Coca Cola, Anchor milk and Tip Top ice cream). A small crowd of onlookers are gathered around the fallen figure. Background houses, along with several cars, a child, and a pair of dogs complete the scene.

Tragedy outside the Dairy II features the approach to figurative painting that the artist has become widely celebrated for. With its broad range of characters in a scene of unfolding action, it creates a sense of life and vitality – even while portraying someone’s untimely demise. Set in a seemingly familiar suburban context, it draws aspects of familiar New Zealand culture into the fold of painting.

Get in touch for pricing, further information or to arrange a viewing.

Jacqueline Fahey
Tragedy outside the dairy II, 2003
signed 'Fahey 2003' bottom left
oil on board
625 x 1300mm
840 x 1520 x 45mm framed

View online here: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/202-jacqueline-fahey/works/27290-jacqueline-fahey-tragedy-outside-the-dairy-ii-2003/

Max Gimblett 'Hands of Gold' opens tonight from 5-7pm at our Auckland City gallery.

Contact us for a list of available works, or view more on our website: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/336-hands-of-gold-max-gimblett/

Pictured:
Max Gimblett
Sound, 2024
primer, resin, moon gold leaf, aquasize, Japanese black leaf on wood panel
152.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm / 60 x 60 x 2 in

Aiko Robinson's 'I stain my heart with thoughts of you so resistant' closes tomorrow Saturday 1 June at 4pm. The exhibition has sold out of original works, but there are still editioned etchings available.

Work Details:
Aiko Robinson
The passion of the red camellia is a flame that never ceases, 2024
watercolor and ink on paper
573 x 766mm
690 x 890mm framed

Ayesha Green's 'Self Portrait with Magpie' from 2021 features in 'Five Figures' currently on view at our City gallery until Saturday 1 June.

Green is a leading contemporary painter whose paintings often explore contemporary life in Aotearoa and the historic circumstances that have shaped it.

Contact us for further information.

Gow Langsford is thrilled to announce we are now representing Berlin-based painter Yafeng Duan.

Born in Hebei in northern China in 1973, Duan has resided in Germany since 2004. She has exhibited extensively in Europe and Asia, showing her work in a broad range of private and public settings. Her first exhibition with Gow Langsford will take place this year at our flagship gallery in Onehunga.

Duan works in abstract painting, combining gestural mark-making with multi-layered paint washes. Her paintings are richly colourful and expressive, drawing on influences from both traditional Chinese ink painting and contemporary Western abstract art. Duan’s father was a notable figure in traditional Chinese ink painting, and she studied this distinguished artform at the Central Academy for Fine Arts in Beijing from 1999 – 2001. After moving to Germany in 2004, she studied painting at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences and then undertook an extended period of study at Bauhaus University Weimar, graduating in 2011.

Contact us to register your interest for Duan's upcoming exhibition.

View more on our website: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/314-yafeng-duan/

Image 1 and 2: Jörg Dedering
Image 3: Artist studio, Berlin

The Sydney Film Festival is on from 5-16 June 2024 and it will premiere a new documentary on Dale Frank. 'Nobody's Sweetie', directed by Jenny Hicks, presents a charmingly intimate portrait of Dale Frank, hardworking artist and hermit, laying bare his creative process and his place in today’s art world.

For tickets and further information see here: https://www.sff.org.au/program/browse/dale-frank-nobodys-sweetie

Included in John P**e's solo exhibition 'Haia' are six large scale works on paper. “The ink drawings were drawn in my hut in Liku,” P**e says. “In these drawings, there are references to the empty hurricane houses built in the 1960s, and references to the church in Liku. The texts and many of the images are sourced from my journals, which I constantly draw and write in.”

View these works at our Onehunga Gallery until 8 June.

Pictured:
John P**e
Foulua Pukenamo Tau Misi, 2022
ink, oil stick and acrylic on paper
1520 x 1065mm
1670 x 1215 x 60mm framed

We are hiring!

We are looking to for a part-time Gallery Assistant to join our dynamic team.

The role of Gallery Assistant is a multi-faceted job which requires a high level of organisation, excellent communication skills, a good knowledge of local and international art, initiative, and energy. The position is primarily based at our Onehunga Gallery on Saturdays. The ideal candidate will be available for additional days across both gallery locations, as required. Would suit a university student or recent graduate with previous customer service experience.

The Gallery Assistant will be the first point of contact for visitors to the gallery. The successful applicant should have a good working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Teams. Customer service or retail experience essential, previous industry experience an advantage. Familiarity with Artlogic, art handling skills and Adobe Creative Cloud an advantage.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to begin or continue their career in arts administration. If you are interested in the position, please email a CV with covering letter to [email protected] Sunday 12 May.

It is the final week to view our inaugural exhibition 'This Must Be the Place' at our new Onehunga gallery, closing this Saturday at 4pm.

'This Must Be the Place' showcases artwork that navigates the history and experience of Aotearoa and Oceania. Here, in stories told through contemporary visual language, this exhibition presents a nuanced discourse on location, life, migratory journeys, and local history through the work of a diverse group of artists.

Open Thursday-Friday 10-5pm, Saturday 10-4pm.
Gow Langsford Onehunga, 4 Princes St.

Photos: Sam Hartnett

https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/338-this-must-be-the-place-inaugural-exhibition/

Auckland based poet Paula Green and partner to artist Michael Hight has written a reflection on our recent Aotearoa Art Fair presentation which featured three artists responding to a 1930s painting by Frances Hodgkins. In 2006 Paula wrote a poetry book titled 'Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins' and shares her musings on her blog.

Poetry Shelf Friday Feature: List poems and a homage to Frances Hodgkins Gow Langsford Gallery booth at Auckland Art Fair 2024 Wings Over Water Hold the shell to my ear and I hear the life of the hermit crab.Hold the bird to my ear and I hear the waterways and the windm…

Both of our galleries are closed tomorrow for ANZAC Day. We will be back open on Friday (10-5pm) and Saturday (10-4pm) at our Onehunga and City gallery.

Photo: Installation view of 'This Must Be The Place', Onehunga, featuring (L to R) Teuane Tibbo, John P**e and Areez Katki. Credit: Sam Hartnett.

Brett Graham's magnificent new work was unveiled over the weekend at the 60th Venice Biennale as part of the International Exhibition 'Foreigners Everywhere'.

Brett's 'Wasteland' (2023; steel, found wagon wheels, macrocarpa wood, paint) sits alongside carved works by his father Fred Graham from 1960s-70s.

A big congratulations also to Mataaho Collective who were awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist in the International Exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.

The Biennale runs through until November this year.

Be sure to check out David McCracken's new sculpture installed in front of the Viaduct Events Centre for the Aotearoa Art Fair.

A solo exhibition from David will be held at our Onehunga gallery in a couple of months time. Contact us to be kept up to date.

Work Details:
David McCracken
Untitled, 2024
corten steel
2450 x 3000 x 500mm

Gow Langsford is pleased to present Julian Schnabel’s 'Portrait of José Luis Ferrer' at Aotearoa Art Fair 2024. Monumental in scale, Portrait of José Luis Ferrer demonstrates the technical finesse and artistic vision that has made Schnabel a major figure in American art since the 1980s.

Schnabel created Portrait of José Luis Ferrer in 1997. The work combines oil and enamel paint with acrylic resin. The artist has used detailed paintwork to articulate the figure’s face, while employing gestural mark making to generate the surrounding environment. This approach recurs throughout Schnabel’s substantial body of portraiture, which has been a central aspect of his painting practice throughout his career. His use of scale elevates the subjects of his portraits and invokes a sense of gravitas, as is the case with this painting.

The subject – José Luis Ferrer – is an actor and personal friend of the artist. The sharply defined face of Ferrer sits in powerful contrast to the gestural to the loosely defined background. The painting has been overlayed with resin, which the artist has allowed to run down the canvas, setting up a dynamic friction between painterly control and expressive chaos. Combined with the imposing scale of the work, this epitomises the audacious approach to painting that Schnabel has a reputation for.
In 1998, the artist reproduced this work as a silkscreen print. Released in an edition of 90, the print has proved highly popular, commanding strong prices at leading international auction houses. This fact makes the original painting all the more compelling. Portrait of José Luis Ferrer is a prime example by one of the world’s leading painters of the past 40 years.

View this work at Booth G15, open today until 6pm and tomorrow from 11-5pm.

THE ART PAPER ISSUE 05
Cover 01, JACQUELINE FAHEY ❤️❤️

Thank you so much to Jacqueline, Edith Amituanai for the incredible photographs, Chloe Hill for the incredible styling and Lara Daly MUA

New magazine design by Alessandra Banal, logo by Felix Henning-Tapley

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Fahey is represented by Gow Langsford and Amituanai is represented by Anna Miles Gallery

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A new work by Shane Cotton is included in 'This Must Be the Place', our inaugural exhibition at our Onehunga gallery.

Cotton’s work frequently refers to Māori folk art – art that developed post-contact, and incorporated elements from European culture. He has shaped this swathe of visual references and touchstones into a contemporary visual lexicon. In 'Te U Kai Po' (2023-24), the artist presents the viewer with an arrangement of flowers in a vessel. While floral still life has a long tradition in Western painting, Cotton draws in elements of customary Māori motifs to create an artwork distinct to Aotearoa. His palette and paint handling give the work a vibrant, contemporary tone.

Gow Langsford Onehunga is open Thursday-Friday 10-5pm and Saturday 10-4pm; 'This Must Be The Place' closes on Saturday 4 May.

View more online here: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/338/works/artworks-27177-shane-cotton-te-u-kai-po-2023-24/

Shane Cotton
Te U Kai Po, 2023-24
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas
2000 x 1600mm

You can't miss Gregor Kregar's latest work as part of our Aotearoa Art Fair presentation. Find us at Booth G15, or contact us for further details.

Gregor Kregar
Infinite Loop, 2024
stainless steel
2500 x 2800 x 1500mm

Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Aotearoa Art Fair

If you are in Auckland city for the Aotearoa Art Fair this week, make sure to visit our City gallery to view 'Collective Visions', a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by a number of our represented artists.

Contact us for a catalogue, or view online: https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/335-collective-visions-new-recent-works-by-represented-artists/

"I love this cover! The first show I worked on at Gow Langsford was also Reuben's first solo show here in 2003. It feels like we have grown up in the art world together. I am so proud of what he has accomplished and thrilled that life in the USA is going so well. NYC is lucky to have you!" - Anna Jackson, Director

Check out Reuben Paterson's cover and feature article in today's Your Weekend, or read online here: https://www.thepress.co.nz/culture/350241535/reuben-patersons-big-brave-new-life-new-york

We also have four new small scale glittering works available at the gallery, get in touch for pricing details.

Image 2: ’ve got a Message for You, 2024
Image 3: Mesmerize Me, 2024
Image 4: Skin Tight, 2024
Image 5: Way to Go, 2024