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John Reynolds

JOHN REYNOLDS

APOCALYPSEoCLOCK Starkwhite 21 October–1 December 2022 Auckland
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’...No matte
rhow you twist it,
life stays frozen in the headlights
.Funny, none of us heard the roar.’

– Wakefulness, John Ashbery

APOCALYPSEoCLOCK continues themes, motifs and ‘complaints’ aired recently in the projects SMOKE & MIRRORS, and SLEEPwalking...

Here Reynolds jettisons his signature plays with slogans and broken English for a ‘double vision’ effect within a repeated diptych form. There’s an implied wonky clock face, a flickering vanishing point, and collapsing phantom clock hands amid a watery skyscape. The mirroring within each diptych panel implacably attempts to link the personal and the global, in a singsong of bitter metaphysics.

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About the Artist
John Reynolds lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Over the past three decades he has established a reputation as a painter who employs aspects of drawing (sketches, plans, charts, doodles) and different types of representation (expressive marks, symbols, patterns, writing) for poetic effect. Not content to be pigeonholed as a painter, he also incorporates sculpture, installation and site-specific outdoor works into his practice. These include Snow Tussock

and Golden Spaniard, commissioned by Oceana Gold for a heritage and art park in East Otago; BIG WAVE TERRITORY, commissioned by New Plymouth’s Art in Public Places Trust for the Coastal Walkway; and One Hundred and Eighty-Nine Steps, Freyberg Place (with Isthmus Group), commissioned by the Auckland City Council.

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Starkwhite is a contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, specialising in the presentation of interdisciplinary visual art exhibitions with an international focus. Starkwhite is committed to a strong art fair programme engaging with the best of contemporary art practice.

In 2022 Starkwhite partnered with 1301PE (Los Angeles) to open 1301SW in Melbourne, Australia. 1301SW opened its second space in Sydney in October 2024. www.1301SW.com.

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94 Newton Road
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Auckland 94 Newton Road, Newton
Starkwhite contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Starkwhite
94 Newton Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 307 0703
http://www.starkwhite.co.nz

Opening hours
Tue - Fri, 10pm - 5pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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