Wall painting reviewed

John Hurrell's review of Andrew Barber's Wall Painting #3 at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts is published here. Barber's project runs at Te Tuhi to 27 September 2009.

Image: Andrew Barber, Wall Painting #3, installation view, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, 2009

Barber Wall Painting #3

Andrew Barber's Wall Painting #3 is currently showing at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts to 27 September 2009. This work follows wall paintings presented in Country Painting, Starkwhite (2007) and HEADWAY: New Artists Show, curated by Laura Preston and Brian Butler, Artspace (2006).

Images: Andrew Barber, Wall Painting #3, linen on stretcher, installation views, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Auckland (2009)

We Go Far... And Way Back

Works by Andrew Barber and Dane Mitchell feature in We Go Far......And Way Back at SHOW GALLERY, Staten Island, NY. Curated by Victoria Munro the exhibition also includes works by Julian Dashper, Matthew Deleget, Daniel Gottin, Kyle Jenkins, Lucy McMillan, Jan van der Ploeg and Tilman. It runs to 1 August 2009.

Image from the exhibition invitation

ARTFORUM: SCENE & HERD in Auckland

Alica Frankovich's exhibition A Plane for Behavers opens at Artspace, Auckland on Friday 15 May 2009. Her performance at Artspace on 2 May caught the eye of Artforum's roving reviewer Michael Wilson. You can read his coverage of Alicia's performance and Andrew Barber's Gambia Castle exhibition, Dreamhome / Shithouse here.

Image: Alicia Frankovich, post performance view, Artspace, Auckland, NZ 2009