25 July 2023
Two Rooms
Gond – Michael Shepherd
Custody of Eyes, 2021
polymer on hahnemuhle paper
580 x 760 mm
Three thickets, 2021
polymer on hahnemuhle paper
580 x 760 mm
Tygrt YHWH, 2021
polymer on hahnemuhle paper
580 x 760 mm
Michael Shepherd’s artworks displayed in Two Rooms captured me. The unique use of polymer on hahnemuhle paper. It is hung up only from the top of the art work. Playing with the use of the room lights, it displays different lighting layers underneath the artwork with the unique cut of the paper.
Artspace Aotearoa
Scores for Transformation – Özlem Altin, Quishile Charan, Judith Hopf, Rosemary Mayer, Laider Lertxundi
Özlem Altin
Review (a body a light), 2023
Ink and oil on canvas
140 x 280 cm
Rosemary Mayer
Recording of untitled lecture, circa 1978
28 minutes
Quishile Charan
Araam, 2023
Unbleached cotton and linen hand-dyed.
420 x 265 x 170 cm
The exhibition “Scores for Transformation” featuring Özlem Altin, Quishile Charan, Judith Hopf, Rosemary Mayer, Laider Lertxundi. When I visited this exhibition, there were many interactive works such as Rosemary Mayer. The use of headphones to listen to the video playing on the displayed screen.
Fox Jensen McCrory
rEdEdgE – Jan Albers
hokuSaiSunriSe, 2023
Spray paint on polystyrene & wood in acrylic glass box
170 x 120 cm
sOmekindOfblushing, 2023
Spray paint on polystyrene & wood in acrylic glass box
170 x 120 cm
rEdrumblE, 2023
Spray paint on polystyrene & wood in acrylic glass box
170 x 120 cm
Jan Albers artworks are displayed at Fox Jen McCrory. Albers work demonstrated the play of light and shadows using shapes and textures. The “rEdrumblE, 2023” work interested me more with the use of blue/green spray paint for the shadows underneath. I thought it was a perfect touch to the work as it wasn’t too much or too little fo the painting.
Crystal Monique Biaño 