Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2019

Starkwhite will present an exhibition of portraits by Billy Apple® and Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 13 - 18 February 2019. Read more...

Michael Zavros limited edition book

We are delighted to announce the release of a new book on Michael Zavros, published by Manuscript in association with Starkwhite and Philip Bacon Galleries, and designed by Inhouse. We have a limited edition of the book, which includes an etching by the artist, either in electric blue (as above) or monochrome. Please email contact@starkwhite.co.nz or call on 64 9 3070703 for further details.

Coming up

Our final exhibition for 2017 is Michael Zavros: The Silver Fox. Read more...

Image: Michael Zavros, Leo is Six (2017), oil on board, 300 x 300 mm

Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary

We presented a two-person exhibition at this year's edition of Sydney Contemporary - photographs by Fiona Pardington (NZ) and paintings by Michael Zavros (AUS), and three of our artists - Richard Maloy, Grant Stevens and Clinton Watkins - were included in the Video Contemporary section curated by Serena Bentley.

Images: Starkwhite booth at Sydney Contemporary 2017 

Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary

With two fairs under our belt this year (Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 2017 and Art Basel Hong Kong, March 2017), we are looking forward to Sydney Contemporary in September where we will present an exhibition of works by Fiona Pardington and Michael Zavros.

Image: Carriageworks, the venue for Sydney Contemporary, 7-10 September 2017.

Magic Mike reviewed by John McDonald in SMH

This link takes you to John McDonald's review in the Sydney Morning Herald of Michael Zavros' exhibition Magic Mike at the Newcastle Art Gallery.
Image: Michael Zavros, Phoebe is 8/Tom Ford, 2013, oil on board, 23 x 15.6 cm

MIchael Zavros residency in Shangahi

Michael Zavros has just completed a one-month residency at Shanghai University's Public Art Coordination Centre. During his stay he combined studio work (new paintings) with exploratory visits to other workshops able to assist with sculpture projects. His partner Alison Kubler (co-author of Art & Fashion in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson) also gave a lecture on the art & fashion interface to students at Shanghai University.
Image: Michael Zavros in his residency studio at Shanghai University's Public Art Coordination Centre

Michael Zavros survey exhibition

Michael Zavros's survey exhibition Magic Mike, runs at the Newcastle Art Gallery to 28 May 2017. Read more...
Image: Michael Zavros, The Mermaid, 2016

Recent acquisition: Michael Zavros' Bad Dad

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has purchased Michael Zavros' Bad Dad for the gallery's permanent collection. Considered to be one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings, Bad Dad was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales) and featured in the exhibition Bad Dad at Starkwhite in 2014 and in our solo show of Zavros' work at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. 
Image: Michael Zavros, Bad Dad, 2103, oil on canvas 110 x 150 cm

Michael Zavros: new acquisitions

The Newcastle Art Gallery (NSW) has acquired two paintings by Michael Zavros, both presented by Starkwhite in his solo show at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in January.
Images: The Mermaid (2015), oil on panel, 220 x 300 mm (top) and The Sunbather (2015), oil on canvas, 1800 x 1800 mm (bottom)

Art Gallery of South Australia adds a Zavros painting to its collection

The Art Gallery of South Australia has acquired Michael Zavros' painting The Phoenix, which featured in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object. Read more...
Image: Michael Zavros, The Phoenix (2016), oil on canvas, 2200 x 2000 mm

Installation views of Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary

In January we presented a solo exhibition by Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC). It's the third solo Zavros show we have presented at art fairs - it follows presentations at at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2014 and Art Basel Hong Kong in 2015 - and it was our fourth participation in ALAC. You can also read our release and see more images of artworks presented at ALAC here. And we have a piece of writing on Zavros by Robert Leonard, published as a PDF, which is available on request (email us at contact@starkwhite.co.nz)
Images: Installation views of Michael Zavros' solo exhibition at Art Los Angeles Contemporary (2016).

Acquisitions: Bad Dad heads to QAG|GOMA

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has selected Michael Zavros' Bad Dad as its 2016 appeal acquisition, enabling QAG | GOMA to acquire one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings for its collection. Bad Dad was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales) and featured in the exhibition Bad Dad at Starkwhite in 2014 and in our solo show of Zavros' work at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. 
Image: Michael Zavros, Bad Dad, 2103, oil on canvas 110 x 150 cm

ARTLINK publishes on-line review of the Adelaide Biennial

ARTLINK has posted an online review of the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, with Michael Zavros' Painting Sideshow Bob on the home page. The review covers Zavros' installation of Still Life paintings. Read more...

Image: Michael Zavros, Sideshow Bob (32015), oil on canvas, 140 x 110 cm

Michael Zavros presents a room of still life paintings at the Adelaide Biennial

Michael Zavros' The Phoenix is the centerpiece of his installation of still life paintings in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, which opened this weekend at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The installation includes The Twins, two arrays of flowers that perform (slowly) for viewers. Over a period of days the pure white flowers undergo a transformation, hybridising into exotic strains, tipped and striped with painterly washes of pink and blue. 
Image: installation view of Michael Zavros' room in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.   

Michael Zavros in the Adelaide Biennial

Michael Zavros will present an installation of still life paintings in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object. Curated by Lisa Slade, the biennial opens at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 27 February.

Image: Michael Zavros, The Phoenix, 2016, oil on canvas, 220 x 200 cm

LA bound

We'll be at Art Los Angeles Contemporary next week presenting a solo exhibition by Michael Zavros. You can read more about our show here and follow us on @starkwhite and @ALAContemporary. The fair runs at the Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, from 28-31 January. You can find us at B13.
Image: Michael Zavros, We dance in the studio (to that shit on the radio), 2010, digital video, 5 mins duration

Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016

We'll be showing again at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 - our fourth presentation at this fair, starting with The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® (2013) and followed by solo shows by Gordon Walters (2014) and Michael Zavros (2015). In 2014 we also presented an installation by Rebecca Baumann in the Encounters section of the fair curated by Yuko Hasegawa. You can see a full exhibitor list for Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 here.
Images (from the top): Michael Zavros, installation view; Gordon Walters, installation view; Rebecca Baumann (Automated Colour Field (Variation V), detail; and The Immortaliatisation of Billy Apple®, installation view 

Michael Zavros' art magazine covers

Michael Zavros is on the cover of two Australian art magazines - Art Monthly and Art Collector. The cover images are of photographs from his solo show presented by Starkwhite at this year's edition of Art Basel Hong Kong and produced through a collaboration with world's highest paid model, Sean O'Pry

Art Monthly also contains a 6-page spread on Zavros by QAG|GOMA curator Peter McKay on the artist's new interest in photography and performance where he acts as director working with models, commercial photographers, lighting technicians and make-up artists. McKay also covers Zavros' first foray into performance presented by starkwhite (with Rolls Royce) at the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair. Zavros worked with Australia's superstar models the Stenmark twins, a Rolls Royce Wraith, and an endless supply of MZ-monogrammed chocolates offered as gifts to guests at the vernissage.
Image: covers of the current issues of Art Monthly and Art Collector Art Collector  (top and middle) and a view of Zavros' performance Forty at the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair

This week at Starkwhite

Michael Zavros' exhibition Bad Dad continues at Starkwhite this week through to 28 June.

Image: Zavros' Mercedes M Class/Killing me Softly, 2004, oil on board