The James Wallace Trust recently purchased this large drawing The Master of Ceremonies for their collection in New Zealand. I made it while I was in New York in my studio in Greenpoint. It was from a series The Company of Fools. You can see most of the images from this exhibition at Helen Gory Gallery http://www.helengory.com/#/Artist/Lorene-Taurerewa/The-Company-of-Fools

The Golden Filter

                  ARTWORK for the Golden Filter's new album SYNDROMES

The Golden Filter
Solid Gold

See the link to music by New York band The Golden Filter. http://thevinylfactory.com/the-vinyl-factory-presents-the-golden-filters-syndromes/ and to hear their latest song Mother
http://www.thegoldenfilter.com/
I provided the artwork for their new vinyl album SYNDROMES out now!!

Helen Gory Gallery at MOP Projects in Sydney, Australia

If you are in Sydney, Australia go see the Helen Gory Gallery show (they are a Melbourne Gallery) it's a small group of their artists (including me!) at MOP Projects in Sydney, Australia. See the link. http://www.artistprofile.com.au/2011/09/helen-gory-galerie-mop/

I have been busy over the last several months with shows in NYC and Washington, DC, group shows at Yes Gallery in Brooklyn, NY http://yesgalleryyes.com/ The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY http://theinvisibledog.org/ In Rivers Gallery, Greenpoint, NY http://inrivers.tumblr.com/ The Northside Open Studios exhibition at THE END Gallery space, Greenpoint, NY http://www.northsideopenstudios.org/register-now/ A.I.R Gallery, Dumbo, NY, wish you were here 10 show, http://www.airgallery.org/ and the McLean Project for the Arts, Washington DC, Surrealism show http://www.mpaart.org/ (my work The Twins was previewed in the Washington Post from this show).


Earlier this year I exhibitied my solo show The Company of Fools at Helen Gory Gallery, 8 large scale drawings and a large number of watercolours. Ashley Crawford, who is an Australian art critic/writer wrote the catalogue intro, which you can read here  http://www.helengory.com/press/Lorene%20Taurerewa/Lorene%20Taurerewa%20Catalogue%20essay%20Ashley%20Crawford%202011.pdf
A large number of the works were sold from the show and the National Gallery of Victoria bought a selection of water colours for their collection. Gerard Vaughan the National Gallery director and curators attended the opening, unfortunately, I couldn't make it, but was very happy with the outcome of the show. An article is out this coming September 2011 about the show in Australia Art Monthly. And, the James Wallace Trust in New Zealand purchased work from the show for their collection.
Oh, I almost forgot to say I had a small show of large drawings and watercolors with Suite Gallery in New Zealand and after a year of representation by them, I made the decision to move on. Also, Pataka Museum purchased a large watercolor from the Suite show, which a number of people tell me now hangs in their main gallery.
You can read the article WHAT NOW Lorene Taurerewa an interview by Ashley Crawford for Australian Art Collector http://www.helengory.com/press/Lorene%20Taurerewa/Lorene%20Taurerewa%20AAC%20Oct%20Dec%202010%20pg%20108%20109.pdf which came out earlier this year and talks a bit about the dark side of the New Zealand psyche!! this was in reference to the Unnerved exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery, which I participated in along with a number of NZ artists.
I am currently working in the studio drawing very large scale for 2 solo shows and a group show coming up later this year, in NYC and Australia.

I will be exhibiting with a group of New Zealand artists in Unnerved at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Opening on the 26 November 2010 - 27 February 2011.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/unnerved-contemporary-new-zealand-art

Unnerved explores a particularly rich, dark vein found in contemporary New Zealand art. The psychological or physical unease underlying many works in the exhibition is addressed with humour, parody and poetic subtlety by artists across generations and mediums. Bringing together more than 100 works ranging from intimate works on paper to large scale installations by both established and emerging artists, Unnerved engages with New Zealand’s changing social, political and cultural landscape as the country navigates its indigenous settler and migrant histories. These works explore a changing sense of place, the continued importance of contemporary Maori art, biculturalism, a complex colonial past, the creative reworking of memory, and the often interconnected mediums of performance, photography and video. If the vision is unsettling, it is also compelling and Unnerved: The New Zealand Project offers us new ways of seeing one of our closest neighbours.
This is a touring show which was at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane earlier this year.