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In her exhibition Proof Of Heaven Millar will exhibit a large group of new paintings that she has been working on over the last six months in her Berlin studio. Taking cues from the colours found in post-apocalyptic comics these works glow with an otherworldly light, mysterious and unsettlingly beautiful. Forms appear to emerge and disintegrate in an unstable world of things half-seen and impossible to recognise.

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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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Gow Langsford Gallery
28-36 Wellesley Street East, Auckland, New Zealand

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