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Judy Millar

JUDY MILLAR

Turning the World Inside Out: 30 Years a Painter Gow Langsford Gallery 31 August–24 September 2016 Auckland City
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While working on a group of new paintings during the summer of 2015 Judy Millar had a flashback to a work painted almost 30 years earlier. She was struck by the similarity between a work she had painted in 1987 and her new work both in palette and the overlaid drawn line used to establish depth in the image. Comparison between the works revealed the consistency with which she has worked over the past 30 years. It made evident her determined search to find a way to paint paintings that are both abstract and yet full of imagery.

Millar’s “Untitled” work of 1987 was first exhibited in Gow Langsford Gallery’s inaugural exhibition of the same year. Lady Fletcher purchased it for the Fletcher Collection.

In the exhibition Turning the World Inside Out: 30 Years a Painter we are delighted to have the opportunity to re-exhibit Millar’s Untitled 1987 work alongside her new series of work.

The pairing of works from these different periods of Millar’s oeuvre will provide the chance to witness her 30 year use of inversion, contradiction and paradox as she has sought to re-embody vision. We can examine her determined quest to find a place where subject and object are free to change position, re-combine and ultimately displace one another - letting us, the viewers, revision and re-imagine the physical world around us.

Millar has stated that she wants “to find the moment our image of the world comes into existence”, those moments when our peripheral vision has yet to name objects and pin them down as a tangible “thingness”. In this exhibition we will experience her unique relationship to painting, process and vision.

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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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28-36 Wellesley Street East
Auckland
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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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