Layla Rudneva-Mackay: Running Towards Water

Running Towards Water continues upstairs to 8 July. Read more...
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, A Breath of Fairies (2016), oil on canvas, 350 x 300 mm

Layla Rudneva-Mackay: Running Towards Water opens at Starkwhite

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Running Towards Water runs upstairs at Starkwhite to 1 July.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pink and Peach Jubes with Brass Bowl, 2016, oil on canvas, 500 x 400 mm

Putting the Chartwell Collection to work

The Chartwell Collection is under the spotlight at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. A Work Undone opened last week and is showing alongside Seung Yul Oh's Soom and a photography exhibition titled The Social Life of Things. Most of the artists in the photography show are represented by works drawn from Chartwell's holdings and a few (like Gavin Hipkins) by works from both Chartwell and the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery.

Images (from the top): Gavin Hipkins, Homely: Wellington (Path), 1999; Alicia Frankovich, Pugiliese Suspension/post-performance object, 2007; Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black Vase and White Flowers, 2011; Richard Maloy, Silver Rock #6, 2001

Final day for Layla Rudneva-Mackay's Blue Squares, Purple Pairs

Layla-Rudneva Mackay's Starkwhite exhibition Blue squares, purple pairs closes today at 3pm

Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Still life and sleepless nights (detail), oil on canvas, 400 x 310mm

This week at Starkwhite

Layla-Rudneva Mackay's Blue squares, purple pairs continues at Starkwhite to 12 April.

Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pink peach jubes and glass jar, oil on canvas, 400 x 345mm

This week at Starkwhite

Layla-Rudneva Mackay's Blue squares, purple pairs continues at Starkwhite to 12 April.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Still life and sleepless nights (detail), oil on canvas, 400 x 310mm

Pointing at Trees - final day

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at Trees, closes today at 3pm.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pointing at Trees, installation view

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's Pointing at Trees draws to an end

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at Trees closes tomorrow. [Starkwhite hours are 11am to 3pm on Saturday.]
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black vase and white flowers (2011), C-type print, 380 x 380mm

Final week of Pointing at Trees

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at Trees closes on Saturday 30 June at 3.00pm
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black vase and white flowers (2011), C-type print, 380 x 380 mm

Artist's floor talk at Starkwhite

This afternoon Layla Rudneva-Mackay talks about the work in her exhibition Pointing at Trees. [Starkwhite 3:00 - 4:00pm]
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Blue on grey (2011), C-type print, 380 x 380mm

This week at Starkwhite

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at trees continues at Starkwhite this week.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pointing at Trees, installation view

This week at Starkwhite

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at trees continues this week at Starkwhite.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black vase and white flowers, 2011, C-type print, 380 x 380 mm

Pointing at trees continues at Starkwhite

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at trees continues at Starkwhite this week.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Blue on grey, 2011, C-type print, 380 x 380, edition of 1 plus 1 artist's print

Exhibition opening and publication launch at Starkwhite tonight

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at trees, opens at Starkwhite tonight at 6pm alongside the launch of GREEN WITH ENVY, a new volume on the artist's work published jointly with Clouds. The publication launch will include a reading by contributor Sean O'Reilly.

Coming up at Starkwhite

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Pointing at trees, opens at Starkwhite on Thursday 31 May (from 6pm) alongside the launch of GREEN WITH ENVY, a new volume on the artist's work published jointly with Clouds. The publication launch will include a reading by contributor Sean O'Reilly.

Upstairs at Starkwhite

Image: Layla Rudneva-Mckay, Blue (2009), C-type photograph, 470 x 470mm, starkwhite@starkwhite.co.nz

Layla Rudneva-Mackay floor talk at Artspace

Layla Rudneva-Mackay discusses her work in the exhibition A Rock That Was Taught it Was A Bird at Artspace today at 3.00pm.

Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Taking a moment to lose himself, when found most unexpectedly squashed between a mattress and its base, 2006-2007, C-type print, installation view, Artspace, Auckland, NZ.

Layla Rudneva-Mackay at Artspace

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's photograph Taking a moment to lose himself, when found most unexpectedly squashed between a mattress and its base, features in the exhibition A Rock That Thought It Was A Bird at Artspace. Curator Emma Bugden says: "The work is from a series in which the subjects are literally masked by their interaction with simple domestic elements - a curtain, a bed, a sheet. A tableaux is performed, one in which the protagonist is somehow consumed and integrated into the environment."

Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Taking a moment to lose himself, when found most unexpectedly squashed between a mattress and its base, 2006-2007, C-type print, installation view, Artspace, Auckland, NZ.

A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird opens tonight at Artspace

Layla Rudneva-Mackay is one of the four artists presenting stand-alone projects in the exhibition A Rock That Was Taught It Was A Bird, which opens tonight at Auckland's Artspace.

Image: Poster still from Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, Koki Tanaka, DVD, 2008, courtesy of the artist and Aoyama Meguro Gallery, Tokyo

Ready to Roll

Curated by Heather Galbraith, Ready to Roll is an exhibition with a straightforward premise - great art being made now by artists with a clear sense of direction and an individual voice. The exhibition, which includes works by Layla Rudneva-Mackay, runs at the City Gallery, Wellington to 12 September 2010.This link takes you to the Ready to Roll page on the Gallery website.

Images: Ready to Roll Masthead; Layla Rudneva-Mackay, 2009, Light Pink, C-type photograph