The Asian: Heather Straka
Opening Saturday 10 December 2011 at 1:30pm
The Asian is the first major solo exhibition by Heather Straka in a New Zealand public art gallery. This installation is comprised of an original painting by Straka and fifty copies produced by fifty Chinese artisans working from the Dafen Oil Painting Village in the Longgang District of Shenzhen. Straka is an artist who has built a reputation over the last decade for her ability to seamlessly fuse appropriated ‘sitters’ from historical paintings, with contemporary imagery and concerns relating to sexual identity and cultural politics.
Heather Straka is an artist of proven merit who constantly reinvents her practice through her investigation of ideas and exploration of media. He work invites dialogue and engagement with artistic and cultural notions of representation, presentation and production.
Along with attracting a broad national audience, the exhibition has also been of interest to the growing Asian communities who now live in New Zealand.
Exhibition runs from 10 December 2011 until 11 March 2012. Heather Straka will be attend the opening and will present a talk at 1:30pm.
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Painting The View
Opening Saturday 10th December 2011 at 1:30pm
Painting the View – Constable, Turner and British Landscape Watercolourists From 1760-1860
This selection from Te Papa’s collection of watercolours is drawn from the period when watercolour painting became established in England and reached its greatest sophistication in the genre of landscape painting.
This well developed exhibition features 31 works of distinct merit and beautifully bing together works held in our National collection.
Exhibition runs from 10 December 2011 until 22 January 2012.
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