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Layla Rudneva-Mackay

LAYLA RUDNEVA-MACKAY

Running Towards Water Starkwhite 7 June–1 July 2016 Auckland
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Layla Rudneva-Mackay presents a new suite of paintings of flowers that are reminiscent of Post-Impressionist works and recall their observation of what has been traditionally considered a less lofty artistic genre. They also reveal her continuing interest in form and patches or fields of colour, employed in a way that is clear, but not explicit. The visuality of her work is always underlined by a certain silence or a poetic turn in title and a concern with what is it to show someone something rather than telling them. The act of observation and its material expression demands a radical slowness and humility of gesture and the steady, abstracting attention of the eye…all things that define Rudneva-Mackay’s practice.

Layla Rudneva-Mackay graduated with an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2006. She has been described as an artist with a practice that makes a space for being lost for words.

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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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