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James Cousins

JAMES COUSINS

Resident Gow Langsford Gallery 3–27 August 2016 Auckland City
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James Cousins’ new exhibition, Resident, presents a series of new works developing upon earlier thematic ideals and painterly constructs. These rich works create visually active, stimulating paintings that carry an appearance or currency of transmitted data.

In a completely digital age, Cousins’ accumulated layers delay and compound acts of looking. Optically challenging layered gestures combine and play off each other effecting moments of transition between presence and absence, departure or arrival. These works hang in the present and insist on the how of painting rather than the what. Cousins’ employs a range of paint applications and excavation processes that in their execution seem concurrently highly orchestrated and precise yet also spontaneous and imprecise. These processes become accumulated in the layers the works forming a kind of record of rebukes and convalescence that temper the artist decision-making. It’s through these collated narratives that these works aim to rethink ways in which gestures designate or hold subjectivity.

James Cousins exhibits locally and internationally; earlier in the year his work was included in Necessary Distraction, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.

The artist would like to acknowledge support from the University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts PBRF Fund.

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About the Artist

James Cousins was born in Christchurch in 1965. In 1989 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ilam, Canterbury School of Fine Arts. He graduated with a Diploma of Teaching from the Christchurch College of Education in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2004 from Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. In 2000 James Cousins was the recipient of the Christchurch-based Olivia Spencer Bower Award Fellowship and the works created during his residency are now part of the Christchurch City Art Gallery collection. Cousins has since been selected for inclusion in numerous award exhibitions including: The Wallace Art Awards (2005), Waikato National Art Awards (2002) and the Visa Gold Awards (1996, 1998). In 2004 Cousins was selected for inclusion in Code NZ at Canvas International in the Netherlands, which resulted in participation in the 2005 Rotterdam Art Fair. During 2007 Cousins was included in the contemporary painting exhibition: PX: A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis (St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland) curated by Leonhard Emmerling. Cousins currently holds a position as lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland.

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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
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Auckland 28-36 Wellesley Street East
Gow Langsford Gallery contemporary art gallery in Auckland City New Zealand
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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