New Show

Opening tonight a show of Watercolours by Lorene Taurerewa at Thermostat Gallery.

http://www.thermostat.co.nz/

New Show at Schick Art Gallery

I will be showing with 11 other artists in the Schick Gallery show opening tomorrow night at Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY.

Contemplations and Conjectures:
12 Artists
March 23 - May 6, 2012

Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM

Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM

Artists' talk and opening reception are free and open to the public - please join us!

Contemplations and Conjectures is an invitational group show featuring drawings by twelve contemporary artists: Sadaie Ayuko, Judith Ann Braun, Jeff Feld, Meg Hitchcock, Cynthia Ona Innis, Michael Schall, Charlotte Schulz, Ruijun Shen, Hiroyuki Shindo, Lorene Taurerewa, Antoinette Winters, and Sandy Winters.
Artists Judith Braun, Jeff Feld, Meg Hitchcock, Charlotte Schulz, and Antoinette Winters will participate in the gallery talk.

The contemporary definition of drawing is generally broad in scope, encompassing works created with a variety of tools and on diverse surfaces. Contemplations and Conjectures presents works that range from rigorous representation, such as Michael Schall’s graphite drawings presenting industrial architecture in surreal, ominous landscapes, to works that are unconventional in process or materials, like Judith Ann Braun’s ‘Wall Fingerings’ and Meg Hitchcock’s drawings made from excised holy texts.


Sadaie Ayuko, Untitled
Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper
Sadaie Ayuko (Kyoto, Japan) is an emerging artist who makes detailed, sensitive pen and ink drawings of plants and insects in a style that is directly representational, yet has echoes of traditional Japanese painting methods.

Judith Braun, Wall Fingering (detail)
Judith Ann Braun (Brooklyn, NY) makes ‘wall fingerings,’ site specific, abstract drawings done directly on a wall with her fingers and charcoal dust. She often employs self-imposed limitations (governing the direction or pressure of each mark, for example) that determine the ultimate outcome.

Jeff Feld, Untitled
InterOffice mail envelope, ink, enamel, graphite
Jeff Feld (Ridgewood, NY) is a former social worker whodraws, collages, and paints on inter-office envelopes, objects from the realm of offices and institutions. He works and reworks their surfaces, allowing uncertainties and imperfections, and arriving at pieces which combine utilitarian and aesthetic qualities.

Meg Hitchcock, Castle
Chapter 1 - 3 of Interior Castle, by Saint Teresa, cut from chapter 6 of Mysterium Conjunctionis, by CG Jung
Meg Hitchcock (Brooklyn, NY), collects holy texts from used bookstores and cuts them up letter by letter, in a labor-intensive process. She then reconfigures them, in visually striking patterns, to create passages from other religious texts. Her ‘cross-pollination’ of different spiritual traditions implies their shared source, an abiding sense of reverence.

Cynthia Ona Innis, Flare.Ink, acrylic, and satin fabric on wood
Cynthia Ona Innis (Oakland, CA) makes abstract works that combine drawing, painting, and collaged fabric. Her art is inspired by the cycles of nature; elements in drawings may refer to biomorphic forms or to botanical study of growth stages.



Michael Schall, Rebuilding the Quarries
Graphite on paper
Michael Schall (Brooklyn, NY ) makes highly detailed, labor-intensive charcoaldrawings that depict industrial architecture in ominous landscapes, alternate universes that are both compelling and unsettling. He is interested in issues pertaining to the environment and to the ‘beauty and arrogance of technology.’

Charlotte Schulz, Territories (detail)
Charcoal on paper
Charlotte Schulz (Danbury, CT) creates narrative charcoal drawings that fuse historical catastrophes with domestic interiors, architecture, and otherworldly landscapes. Her works often incorporate folds or bends in the paper as part of their structure, creating unexpected shifts in the perceived space of the work.

Ruijun Shen, Ladies
Transparent film, pen on Plexi
Ruijun Shen (Guangzhou, China) makes line drawings that use a stream-of-consciousness, Surrealist sensibility, and combine influences from traditional Eastern philosophy and contemporary Western culture.

Hiroyuki Shindo, Untitled
Ink on paper
Hiroyuki Shindo (Kyoto, Japan) is primarily a textile artist known for his use of indigo dye. Concurrently, he makes ink drawings that employ skillful brush techniques; their simplified, bold elements often have the impact of a Motherwell abstraction.

Lorene Taurerewa, See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
Charcoal on paper
Lorene Taurerewa (Brooklyn, NY) makes large-scale figurative drawings whose characters appear to enact theatrical narratives. Dramatic changes in scale and value are employed, evoking satire, dream, and danger. Taurerewa uses her own life and her childhood in New Zealand as a source for her imagery.



Antoinette Winters, Convergence (detail)
Mixed media on mylar on paper
Antoinette Winters (Waltham, MA) reassembles remnants and leftovers from a decade of discarded drawings, exploring the variety of ways that disparate parts can achieve a new meaning. She uses a narrow horizontal format that echoes her interest in Japanese scrolls and visual narrative.

Sandy Winters, She Takes You Down to the River
Flashe, watercolor, graphite on paper
Sandy Winters (New York, NY) makes work in which the biomorphic and the mechanical merge, becoming at once ominous and playful. She uses drawing, painting, relief printing, and collage techniques, and is interested in the tension between creative and destructive forces in nature and in human society.

Exhibition by Lorene Taurerewa at Thermostat Gallery, New Zealand

I have just sent a small series of new watercolours to the gallery today.

The last time I showed a series of watercolours was at Suite Gallery in Wellington, NZ in 2010. Obviously it's been a while since I had a solo show in NZ so interested to see how it all looks. I love the gallery space and its curatorial take on shows.

 Opening 30 March - 19 April 2012

Thermostat Art Gallery

Palmerston North

New Zealand

Thermostat Gallery: http://www.thermostat.co.nz/

SmallWorks Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

The SmallWorks Gallery is a new gallery recently opened in Brisbane, Australia.
I will be exhibiting with SmallWorks in June, 2012.
Click on the link to see the artists represented.

Contemplations and Conjectures:12 Artists

I will be participating along with fellow artists Jeff Feld, Meg Hitchcock, Sandy Winters, Charlotte Schultz, Sadaie Ayuko, Antoinette Winters, Michael Schall, ruijun Shen, Cynthia Ona Innis, Judith Ann Braun and Hiroyuki Shindo in the upcoming show Contemplations and Conjectures at Skidmore College, Saratoga, 23rd of March - May 6th

                                        hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, charcoal on paper (detail)

Lorene Taurerewa shows a selection of paintings at Fountain Art Fair, 69th Armory, NY

FOUNTAIN ART FAIR, 69th ARMORY , New York


I am exhibiting at the The Fountain Art Fair openening on the 9th, 2012.

Joe Iurato. Lion, 2012. Stencil, spray paint and latex on wood panels. 20' x 8'.

Fountain Art Fair New York at the 69th Regiment Armory

March 9–11, 2012 | 68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street

New York, NY (March 5, 2012) - Fountain Art Fair, known for its delightfully rebellious tendencies and inclination to challenge the status quo, will open the doors of its seventh New York exhibition on Friday, March 9 at the historic 69th Regiment Armory (68 Lexington Ave at 25th St).

Keeping its signature street art edge, Fountain will feature 18 of today’s most infamous street artists - over half of them female - in a sprawling 200-foot installation both inside and outside the 69th Armory. The installation, with contributions by Chris Stain, Know Hope, GILF, Joe Iurato, LMNOP, Elle, ShinShin, and more, is curated by street art champion Samson Contompasis, director of The Marketplace Gallery.

Site-specific installations and other surprises will abound at Fountain, including Abraham Lubelski’s large-scale installation 250,000 Works on Paper and Ryan Cronin’s 35-foot inflatable pink bunny hovering above the fray.

Among Fountain’s 60 outstanding exhibitors, the fair’s usual focus on cutting-edge Brooklyn galleries and artists will be complimented this year by 10 international galleries from Korea, Japan, Germany, France, and Canada. Contemporary visual performances curated by Jill McDermid will take place throughout the weekend; check the website for details!

For respite from the art fair frenzy, attendees can head to Fountain’s LOOSEWORLD Lounge, where Pernod Absinthe will be providing specialty cocktails while LOOSEWORLD, a multi-media creative agency, sets the scene with special video projects. In addition, Fountain will be graciously hydrated by Drink Mercy, Bomb Lager, Bulldog Gin, Alacran, Tequila, Medea Vodka, Fresh Art House, and IZZE’s Sparkling Juice.

Three special on-site events you don’t want to miss:

VIP & Press Preview: Friday March 9, 1pm-7pm

Get an exclusive first look at Fountain’s outstanding roster of exhibitors and discover impressive new artwork before anyone else. During the VIP Preview, Prohibition Bakery will provide a selection of its boozey cupcakes for adults in the VIP & Press Lounge. Artist-led tours of the fair, curated by Uprise Art, will also be available. Click here for details on how to become a Fountain VIP.

Artlog Public Opening Reception: Friday March 9, 7pm-11pmContemporary art gurus Artlog host Fountain’s Public Opening Reception, featuring an appearance by the defiant art-improv collective Art Liars, undeniably danceable beats by NSR, a live performance by psych-rockers Spirit Animal, and a DJ set by New York legend and street art pioneer Fab 5 Freddy - who will also be exhibiting his artwork. Also be sure to catch Hairachy, a 17-minute multidimensional aerial performance by Seanna Sharpe and Mad Sharpe Production, presented by Creamhotel.

Art For Progress Party: Saturday March 10, 7pm-11pm

With live music, interactive fashion, performance art, and DJs, this evening presented by Fountain's nonprofit partner Art For Progress is not to be missed. Featuring Comandante Zero of Brooklyn, Red Baron of Philadelphia, designers Iliana Quander and Allyson Jacobs, among other exciting talents from Art for Progress, a nonprofit arts organization committed to the cultivation and support of emerging artists.

Visitors can also interact with Fountain online - media sponsor SCVNGR will be providing fun mobile challenges throughout the fair, and join the conversation on Twitter by following @FountainArtFair!

Get your tickets to Fountain in advance! Discounted tickets are available online.

Fountain New York 2012 Exhibitors:5 Pointz Art Space * Albany Center Gallery * Andrew Kennelly and Eric Tureski* Active Ideas Productions * Art For Progress * Artist Collective * Art Mazinga Gallery * Asan Gallery * Big Deal Arts * BLUDOG 10003/NOT ME * Broadway Gallery* Bushwick Gallery * Charlie K Art Space * Cheap & Plastique * creamhotel * curcioprojects presents: Christopher Hart Chambers and Michael Zansky * Dacia Gallery * Dumb One!/ Empirical Art * Evo Love * Fab 5 Freddy * Fine Arts International * Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art * Front Room Gallery * Gallery DEN * Gallery G2* * GILF !* Glasschord * Grace Exhibition Space * Hullaballoo Collective * Ian Ross * iArt-4 Collective * Javier Jimenez * K & P Gallery * Kelsey Marie * KESTING / RAY * Lambert Fine Arts * Leslie Lyons * Marianne Nems * Mark Demos * Mayjune Gallery * Michael X Rose * Microscope Gallery * Mighty Tanaka * Mind the Art * MUNCH GALLERY * Murder Lounge * Now Gallery * Post Nature Art * Republic Worldwide * Ross Brodar and Daniel Belardinelli * Sarah Trouche * Solo(s) Project House * Station 16 *The Body Paint Gallery (AKA Gallery ML) * The G-Spot * The Marketplace Gallery * Tinca Art * Uprise Art * YES Gallery * Zoom Gallery

Fountain Art Fair New York at the 69th Regiment Armory

March 9–11, 2012 | 68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street

Hours & Special Events:

Friday 3/9

VIP &Press Preview: 1pm–7pm

Artlog presents Opening Reception: 7pm-11pm

Saturday 3/10

General public hours: 1pm–7pm

Art For Progress Saturday Party: 7pm–11pm

Sunday 3/11

General public hours: 1pm–7pm

Tickets:

Online at reduced rates: $8 daily / $13 weekend pass / $45 VIP Pass

At the door: $10 daily / $15 weekend pass

Opening night at the Brucennial 2012

Goodbye Mike Kelly,  Julian Schnabel

                     

Keith Haring

Damien Hirst Spot Painting

I arrived early and had time before the crush to have a good look at the work spread over several levels of the gallery space. Lots of lesser known artists along with artists of note Damien Hirst spot painting, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Sigmar Polke, Julian Schnabel, Anselm Reyle, Francesco Clemente, Aurel Schmidt, Dan Colen, David Salle, George Condo, Rashid Johnson, Dash Snow, Terence Koh, Richard Prince, Joseph Beuys, Scott Campbell, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Sachs, Andy Warhol (collaboration).

artnet: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/corbett/2012-brucennial_detail.asp

The Whitney vs. The Brucennial: http://guestofaguest.com/new-york/art/the-battle-of-the-opening-receptions-whitney-biennial-vs-brucennial

Video of Brucennial opening night: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vernissagetv/the-brucennial-2012_b_1315767.html

Brucennial 2012

Setting up at the Brucennial

I am one of the artists participating in this years BRUCENNIAL, the opening this Wednesday 29th at 159 Bleeker St. If it's anything like the last show in 2010 it's going to be an amazing event!

The art collective known as The Bruce High Quality Foundation once more challenges the Whitney Biennial with the Brucennial, and the 2012 edition is "harderer, betterer, fasterer, and strongerer." The Brucennial beats the Whitney Biennial easily when it comes to the amount of paintings per wall. In "Petersburg hanging" style, the pop-up space in New York City's Bleecker Street presents works of unknown artists next to those of famous ones like George Condo, David Salle, and Damien Hirst. This video documents the opening reception of the Brucennial.

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The Sugarbread House

THE SUGARBREAD HOUSE

Drawings and paintings by Lorene Taurerewa and Warwick McLeod at THE END Creative Artspace,

Brooklyn, NY

Opening reception 6.30 – 9.30 pm, Friday 27 January, 2012

THE END is at 13 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY

(G Train to Greenpoint Ave, exit Greenpoint Ave)

WEBSITE: http://theendnyc.com/
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The Vinyl Factory Soho, London

Album Cover for The Golden Filter

The Vinyl Factory in Soho, London. http://thevinylfactory.com/ 

My watercolours were used for the album cover design by New York indie electro duo THE GOLDEN FILTER. The duo produced the soundtrack SYNDROMES for a collaborative short film with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9JrcpqEksQ

The Golden Filter

Unnerved The NZ Project, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

NGV News

5 October 2010

Yvonne Todd

The National Gallery of Victoria today opened a major exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of 26 contemporary New Zealand artists in Unnerved: The New Zealand Project.
This fascinating exhibition explores a rich and dark vein found in contemporary art in New Zealand, drawing on the disquieting aspects of New Zealand’s history and culture reflected through more than 100 works of art.
Jane Devery, Coordinating Curator, NGV said: “The works presented in Unnerved reveal a darkness and distinctive edginess that characterises this particular trend in New Zealand contemporary art. The psychological or physical unease underlying many works in the exhibitions is addressed with humour, parody and poetic subtlety.
The exhibition reflects the strength and vitality of contemporary art in New Zealand with works created by both established and emerging artists, across a range of mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, film and video.
“Unnerved engages with New Zealand’s changing social, political and cultural landscape, exploring a shifting sense of place, complex colonial past, the relationships between contemporary Māori, Pacific Islander and pakeha (non-indigenous) culture, and the interplay between performance, video and photography,” said Ms Devery.
A highlight of the exhibition is a group of sculptural works by Michael Parekowhai including his giant inflatable rabbit, Cosmo McMurtry, which will greet visitors to the exhibition, and a spectacular life-size seal balancing a grand piano on its nose titled The Horn of Africa. Also on display are a series of haunting photographs by Yvonne Todd, whose portrait photography often refers to B-grade films and pulp fiction novels.
Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said this exhibition demonstrates the NGV’s strong commitment to interesting and challenging contemporary art secured from around the world; he noted that the NGV has made a special commitment to exhibition the contemporary art of our region.
“Unnerved will introduce visitors to the rich contemporary arts scene of one of our closest neighbours, fascinating audiences with works ranging from the life size installations by Parekowhai through to the spectacular 30 metre photographic essay by Gavin Hipkins. This truly is a must see show this summer!” said Dr Vaughan.
Unnerved will also offer a strong and engaging collection of contemporary sculpture, installations, drawings, paintings, photography, film and video art by artists including Lisa Reihana, John Pule, Gavin Hipkins, Anne Noble, Ronnie van Hout, Shane Cotton, Julian Hooper and many others.
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project is on display at NGV International from 26 November 2010 to 27 February 2011. NGV International is open 10am–5pm, closed Tuesdays. Admission is free.
An exciting range of programs have been developed to coincide with the exhibition which can be viewed at ngv.vic.gov.au
A Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition.
Support sponsor: Sofitel Melbourne On Collins

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Lorene Taurerewa, Sensible World (10) 2008 ink on duralar 11 x 8 in

Another form of void is witnessed in one of the highlights of Unnerved: The New Zealand Project at the NGV International. Lorene Taurerewa’s Psychopompe series presents ink on duralar (a transparent plastic film, not unlike acetate) renderings of strange dreams, in which animals transport humans into a nether world. The works draw on shared links between Jungian psychoanalysis, Aesop’s and Grimm’s fairy-tales, in which animals act as a guide for souls moving between the conscious and unconscious. The word psychopompe is derived from the Greek psychopompous, literally ‘guide of souls’. [2] The reference in aesthetic style Chinese drawings, which place great value on expanses of white as a representation of the void. This void is furthered by the fact that the ink drawings are suspended on a transparent film, the picture plane existing near independently of the substrate. Originally, many of these works were shown suspended from wires in the air [3]; at the NGV they are displayed layed flat on a white table in the middle of the room. Whilst gorgeous layed down on the white surface, the suspended installation definitely heightens the interpretation that these drawings are extensions of a psyche, peeping out of a void and floating out of context between the conscious and subconscious.

Ava Seymour, Day Care Walkabouts, 1997, colour photograph of a photomontage, 73 x 92 cm, Collection Auckland Art Gallery

The exhibition also contains a well selected four works from Ava Seymour’s Health, Happiness and Housing series (1997). (The Auckland Art Gallery has a good selection of images from this series, though not those on show at the NGV). Four works from Seymour’s series are hung in the same room as Taurerewa’s works, making a neat contrast to the ways psychoanalysis has influenced art practice — the former following the Surrealist trajectory, and the latter attempted to recreate the fluidity of fluctuating consciousness. Seymour’s works are situated in the void of the suburbs, a feeling amplified by the near exclusive use of blank white skies that serve to further strip the collages of a real world context. Both Syemour’s and Taurerewa’s works are created using relatively inexpensive means (compared with, for example, shooting a HD video or casting a bronze sculpture), but resulting in a polished and valuable piece. Taurerewa’s drawings sift the trash out of the subconscious and render it as art, whilst Seymour’s collages re-figure disposable photographs for the same purpose.

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2010/unnerved/artists/lorene_taurerewa


Lorene Taurerewa | New Zealand b.1961 | Psychopompe (detail) (from 'Psychopompe' series) 2008 | Pen and ink on mylar | 20 sheets: 30.5 x 23cm (each) | Purchased 2008. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Lorene Taurerewa’s works evoke feelings of uncanniness or strangeness in relatively familiar settings. Taurerewa uses an emotive visual language to draw on her ancestral inheritance, Aesop’s fables, Grimm’s fairytales and Jungian tropes, culminating in a visual code that both fascinates and repels.

Psychopompos (from Greek) means a ‘guide of souls’, and refers to a spiritual being, often animal in form, who shepherds the recently departed from this life to the next. In the psychoanalytic terminology of Carl Jung, the ‘psychopomp’ mediates our conscious and unconscious realms. In Aesop’s allegories, animal characters reflected human traits in order to illustrate moral lessons. Taurerewa’s cast of animals likewise appear to escort human protagonists to unknown places.
Taurerewa’s drawings are delicate and intuitive, and their ephemeral nature is heightened by their translucent plastic background. Here, Taurerewa draws on her study of traditional Chinese brush-and-ink painting, and its key concept of the void or emptiness. Dark and otherworldly, Psychopompe appears to exist outside time, emerging instead as the not-quite-controllable creations of psychological realms.

My painting The Wedding Guest hanging in an exhibition alongside Peter Robinson and Ian Scotts work..

Lorene Taurerewa at Thermostat Gallery, New Zealand

Upcoming show in March 2012

Lorene Taurerewa, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia acquired a suite of watercolours by Lorene Taurerewa, seen here one of the drawings.
Lorene’s drawings in ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’ recently on at the NGV, following it’s run at Queensland Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, received a fantastic response and it’s exciting that Lorene’s work is now permanently in the NGV’s collection.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Lorene Taurerewa in group show at Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

THE INFLUENTIAL FEMALE
Drawings Inspired by Women in History

February 3 – March 2
Curator: Randall HarrisArtists: Clarity Haynes, Meridith McNeal, Edward Monovich, Arlene Morris
Annysa Ng, K. Saito, Jacquelyn Schiffman, Viviane Silvera
Lorene Taurerewa, Jono Vaughan
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6 – 8pm
Curator’s Talk: Sunday, February 19, 4pm

Exhibitions and events are
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm

http://www.kentlergallery.org/

SMALLWORKS GALLERY OPENS IN BRISBANE

SmallWorks gallery opens in Brisbane - Australian Art Collector

16 January 2012 | A new gallery has opened in Brisbane with a mission to show work by New Zealand artists. Founded by Daniel Clifford, SmallWorks will have openings and be open on select Saturdays, but is essentially an appointment-only gallery. “There is this constant cliché of New Zealand art being this sort of repressed and grim thing where either a playful colonialist narrative or a remote gothic narrative is played out,” says Clifford. “Well, there is that, but there is so much more to it. What SmallWorks is attempting to do is to introduce this new wave of artists whose narrative doesn't fall into that at all. “One of the ways for them to get known outside of New Zealand (because it generally doesn't fit into the current canon) is for a small intimate offshore gallery to champion them.” “One of the ways for them to get known outside of New Zealand (because it generally doesn't fit into the current canon) is for a small intimate offshore gallery to champion them.” Clifford says he is mainly interested in painting and drawing, but the gallery will also show photographs and sculpture occasionally. The gallery opened in November with a group exhibition including Ben Pearce and the 2012 exhibition program includes Rob McLeod, Lorene Taurerewa, Matthew Couper and Piers Secunda. SmallWorks is at 87 Bromley Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. For appointments ring 0449 259 175   Ben Pearce, Rock Mound. Acrylic and gouache on ply, 200 x 150cm. Courtesy: the artist and SmallWorks, Brisbane Related stories: Lorene Taurerewa exhibits in Miami satellite fair (news)

Coming up is a new exhibition of drawings and paintings THE SUGARBREAD HOUSE by me! and Warwick McLeod  at THE END http://theendnyc.com/blog/ a recording house/gallery/performance space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. It opens on the 27th of January at 6.30pm.

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Lorene Taurerewa exhibits in The Intraspace Project at The Waikato Museum, New Zealand

http://www.waikatomuseum.org.nz/

The Intraspace Project is the Waikato Museum's latest initiative in interrogating the building as installlation site. Activating non-gallery space as sites where artists' interventions can occur.
Utilising utilitarian locations within and external to the museum building, the curator will solicit artists to interface with the designated spaces and respond accordingly. These interactions will culminate in anything from one to seven works in new spaces that could last one minute to one month.
All of the works will be made visible to the world, creating a virtual but real time exhibition that is not bound by fiscal, spatial nor bureaucratic intervention. It's the simple USE of space that will activate the art.
This is the first of its kind in Museums in Aotearoa and possibly internationally.

Lorene Taurerewa (b.NZ currently resides in New York )
The work of Lorene Taurerewa could be equated to early David Bowie in terms of timbre; a rich blend of unsettling familiarity and beauty.'
Using scale and negative space, she is able to speak volumes about displacement and perhaps a sense of isolation.
This work is a particularly powerful image along with it's title 'The Stong Shall Lead the Weak'. A dog acts as master leading this dunce-like character on a leash. Opening up the subject of power, control, and questions of survival through interdependence.
Lorene Taurerewa (nee. Clotworthy) is New Zealand-born, of New Zealand and Samoan descent. She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Taurerewa emigrated to New York in 2009 where she is represented in numerous collections nationally and internationally.
http://www.waikatomuseum.co.nz/page/pageid/2145874159

Lorene Taurerewa and Warwick McLeod at THE END, Brooklyn, NY

WHITEHOT Magazine

I have attached a link to a very good art magazine WHITEHOT magazine. It features international art and artists with very good writing.

Lorene Taurerewa at Yes Gallery

http://artinbrooklyn.com/

Lorene Taurerewa Artwork for Golden Filter LP

http://www.nialler9.com/11662-the-golden-filter-mother-au-palais-remix/

Lorene Taurerewa at Yes Gallery

I'm exhibiting a solo show LORENE TAUREREWA ... watercolors and other things at YES Gallery, 147 India Street, Brooklyn, NY opening 18 November - 15 December.

http://yesgalleryyes.com/

Fountain Art Fair, Miami

I will be exhibiting with Yes Gallery artists at Fountain Art Fair during Art Basel Miami week!!

30 November 2011 - 4 December 2011

http://www.fountainartfair.com/

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.