Sam Mitchell exhibition opens Tuesday 28 May

SAM MITCHELL
Hips
28 May - 22 June 2013

You are warmly invited to attend the opening preview and meet the artist
Tuesday 28 May, 5.30 – 7.30pm

Bartley + Company Art is pleased to present a new exhibition by Auckland artist Sam Mitchell – her first in our gallery and her first in Wellington for a few years. The show comprises her signature paintings on Perspex - her “portraits from the inside out” – and a series of watercolours on found book covers and paper.

In 2010 Sam was the Paramount winner of the Wallace Trust Art Award which led to her spending six months in New York in 2011 on a residency at New York’s ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program). This experience continues to play out in her work with the new ‘portraits’ in this exhibition exploring the hipster culture that was so prevalent in Williamsburg where she was based during her residency. Hips takes a light hearted and subversive look at style, at markers of identity and how popular culture internalises and surfaces in the individual psyche. Her medium, with its characteristic flat surface interacts with the ideas at play in her work reinforcing the tension between the veneer of the outer character and his or her suggested inner life. As TJ McNamara has written:
Sam Mitchell’s work is sensational but never comfortable.

Please enquire if you wish to preview images of works.

Sam Mitchell Floortalk

Sam Mitchell will give a talk about her work at 5.45pm on Wednesday 29 May in the gallery.

Brett Graham & Rachael Rakena in Canada

Brett Graham and Rachel Rakena’s impressive large scale installation Aniwaniwa which showed at the Venice Biennale in 2007 is having another outing at the National Gallery of Canada. Sakahàn (meaning to light a fire) brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries.
Have a look at Aniwaniwa digital stills
Aniwaniwa installed at City Gallery Wellington, 2008

Shane McGrath in Dunedin

It’s not often that art hits the front page of newspapers but Shane McGrath managed to make the front page of the Otago Daily Times recently with a project that investigates the public debate around Dunedin’s proposed wharf hotel development. McGrath launched a balloon that showed the how tall the hotel would be. The project culminated in a show at the Blue Oyster Gallery which runs until Saturday.

Shane McGrath, Raised from the dead, 2012, mixed media, 750 x 120 x 120 mm

Coming up next: Cat Auburn

PUSH ME, PULL YOU

We are pleased to be giving Wellington artist Cat Auburn her first solo show in the gallery. In this exhibition she employs a range of hunting and hunted animals to explore the psychological states of freedom and constraint.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Friday 11 - 5.30 and Saturday 11 - 3

We are also always happy to open by appointment if those hours dont suit for any reason - please feel free to ask for a 'private viewing' any time.

Best wishes,
Alison, Kate and Vanessa

Our address is:
Bartley + Company Art
56A Ghuznee Street
Wellington, NI 6011
New Zealand

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