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GROUP EXHIBITION

Built Two Rooms 4 July–9 August 2025 Auckland
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Built is a group exhibition that actively draws on the notion of constructed painting. All four artists legitimately and historically declare their work as painting, with some works from the 1980’s, and they continue to explore the potential of its contemporary condition. These artworks variously represent painting, operate as painting and embrace the agency of painting, while also registering their explicit qualities as ‘built’ objects.

They tease out the question of painting’s identity through a dissembling of the medium to its constitutive parts: pigment, surface, support. At times, the works turn away from the conventional flat, two-dimensional plane and the constraint of four linear edges, taking the form of exuberant relief assemblages or architectural structures. Several works are made from building materials such as MDF and stained or unprimed wood, used as alternatives to canvas. Surfaces and supports have been cleaved apart and re-joined, with paint and armature reconfigured to suggest new relationships. Together, these paintings suggest a constant state of entanglement or negotiation, working both with and against the materiality of painting.

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Gretchen Albrecht contemporary artist
Gretchen Albrecht b. 1943 Follow +
John Nixon contemporary artist
John Nixon b. 1949 Follow +
John Reynolds contemporary artist
John Reynolds b. 1956 Follow +
James Ross contemporary artist
James Ross Follow +
About the Gallery

Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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16 Putiki Street
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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Auckland 16 Putiki Street, Newton
Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 360 5900
http://www.tworooms.co.nz

Opening hours
Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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