JUDY MILLAR

Comic Drop - Lorne Street Gow Langsford Gallery 20 March–20 April 2013 Auckland

Press Release

Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to present Comic Drop, an exhibition of new works by gallery artist Judy Millar. Millar is one of New Zealand's most exciting contemporary painters who shares her time between a remote property at Anawhata and inner city Berlin - where her career continues to gain momentum. Comic Drop brings together a series of new works that combine exaggerated enlargements of handmade gestures with vivid colour. In these works Millar continues to takes on the history of expressive painting and turn it inside out.

Recent career highlights include two exhibitions at the Venice Biennale representing New Zealand with her solo exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun 2009; and in Time, Space, Existence, a curated exhibition at Pallazo Bembo in 2011. Her work is about to be featured in a large exhibition of star international art in the Czech Republic and an upcoming solo exhibition at IMA Brisbane, Australia.

About the Artist

Judy Millar is a New Zealand painter whose work pushes large-scale gestural abstraction into sculptural and spatial territories, collapsing distinctions between painting, print, and installation. Based between Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Berlin, she is best known for physically immersive environments and digitally mediated canvases that “paint backwards”, reworking expressionist gesture through processes of enlargement, erasure, and mechanical reproduction. Millar represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and returned in 2011 with a major collateral project, cementing her status as one of Aotearoa’s most internationally recognised contemporary painters. Exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, City Gallery Wellington, Te Uru, Galerie Mark Müller, Robert Heald Gallery, and Gow Langsford Gallery underline the sustained institutional and critical interest in her work.

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About the Gallery

Gow Langsford is a commercial art space committed to fostering and promoting the best contemporary art from New Zealand and abroad. Located directly opposite the Auckland Art Gallery, Gow Langsford Gallery represents over thirty established New Zealand and international artists. Gow Langsford is one of the country’s most established galleries and is widely regarded as its most influential dealer gallery. Alongside a regular and varied exhibition schedule, Gow Langsford is a market leader in works on the secondary market.

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28-36 Wellesley Street East
Auckland
New Zealand

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Monday – Friday, 10 am–5 pm
Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Closed Sunday

Gow Langsford Gallery

28-36 Wellesley Street East, Auckland, New Zealand

+64 9 303 9395
http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.com

Opening hours

Monday – Friday, 10 am–5 pm
Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Closed Sunday

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