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Art News:
Kate Woods and Kerry Ann Lee - Hyperspace
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KATE WOODS AND KERRY ANN LEE
Hyperspace
1 â 25 May 2013
You are warmly invited to attend the opening preview and meet the artists
Wednesday 1 May, 5.30 â 7.30pm
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Kerry Ann Lee, 2013, Subterranean dream scene, digital lambda print, 460 mm diameter.
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Kate Woods, 2013, Plastic bag happenings, c-type print on archival rag paper, 860 x 1240 mm framed.
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Since the term culture shock was coined around 1960 much has been written about the process of adjustment to unfamiliar environments. To contemporary sensibilities with remote parts of the world visually, if not physically, accessible and familiar, the concept may seem overstated. Yet despite the globalisation of much contemporary culture, there is no doubt that there are internal challenges in navigating a world that is at once both recognisable and strange, familiar and alien.
In Hyperspace, Kate Woods and Kerry Ann Lee expose that dichotomy and share their travels and their processes of making sense of new places. Both artists employ strategies of constructed photography/photo collage to play out their ideas.
For Kerry Ann Lee, who is New Zealand Chinese, artist residencies in Taipei last year and in Shanghai in 2009, were disorientating - because of her appearance, she was greeted as local yet she felt âlike a visitor from Marsâ. In her residency at the Taipei Artist Village, she sought to work with the imagery that confronted her - a multitude of dislocated images revealing the complex and evolving identity of Taiwan - as a means of capturing the temporary nature of visitor engagement and what for her felt like âa fleeting fever dreamâ. Kerry Ann presents surreal new collage works in antique Chinese frames, video and slides.
Kate Woods is also interested in capturing something of the transient and this has been an ongoing theme in her practice. As she has looked to the history of art and the performative aspects of the land art movement, during her Asia:NZ residency at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing last year she researched the beginnings of contemporary art in China. Becoming fascinated by the Xiamen Dada Group, who were an important part of the avant-garde 85' Wave Movement, she sought to re-enact the groupâs events through the lens of issues of concern to contemporary artists such as excessive building, urbanisation and the forced removal of people from their properties. The resulting images carry her distinctive signature while speaking directly to her China experience.
Wellington based Kate Woods completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2002. Kerry Ann Lee a Wellington artist, currently lecturing at the Otago Polytechnic School of Design, has a Masters of Design. Both artists have exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Coming up next: Sam Mitchell, Hips
We are pleased to be showing for the first time Sam Mitchell's distinctive and irreverent âportraits from the inside outâ. With titles being a point of entry to ideas in an exhibition, you may be interested to know that Sam has derived her title from Australian writer Matt Granfieldâs 2011 first novel HipsterMattic - a satirical look at popular culture.
If anyone would like to preview images in advance, please contact us.
Sam Mitchell, 2013, Nick, acrylic on perspex,
770 x 470 mm.
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Another accolade for Anne Noble
Gallery artist Anne Noble has been awarded the highest academic title bestowed on professors who have achieved âoutstanding international eminence in their fieldsâ. She is the first woman from Massey University and the first academic from the College of Creative Arts to hold the title of Distinguished Professor. We are proud to represent her.
Read more on our blog here.
Anne Noble, 2012, Nieves Penitenes 1, 400 x 435mm
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Congratulations Lonnie Hutchinson
Lonnie has launched two new public art works in the past month - a major feat for any artist. We are looking forward to showing Lonnie's work later in the year alongside that of Sofia Tekela-Smith.
Image one: Lonnie Hutchinson, 2013, Te Waharoa ki te Ao Maarama - The Entranceway to the World of Enlightenment, steel, commissioned by MESH Sculpture Hamilton.
Image two: Lonnie Hutchinson, 2013, All that you breathe, cut vinyl, Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, Kelburn Campus.
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Last days to see Vista exhibition and ANZAC DAY opening hours.
Our graduate show closes this Saturday - come by and see the work of Jonathan Kay and Bridget Reweti or here.
Please note we will be open ANZAC day, Thursday 25th from 1pm till 5.30pm.
Best wishes,
Alison, Kate and Vanessa
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