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Exhibition View: Jude Rae, various objects, Two Rooms, Auckland (11 April–17 May 2025). Courtesy Two Rooms.

JUDE RAE

various objects Two Rooms 11 April–17 May 2025 Auckland
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As described by Lynley Edmeades, Jude Rae’s new paintings are “paintings of objects, but they are also paintings as object, as hinted to in the title of the show. We are invited to view the objects of Rae’s gaze vis-à-vis her own meticulously curated act of objectification. To objectify, when regarding the human body, is degrading, taking away the humanity of the person, say, with the aim of making object. To objectify the object, however, is an act of inversion: Rae’s curated gaze upon the object – her own act of objectification – brings subjectivity to the fore, both hers and ours. We’re witness to her seeing and, in doing so, made aware of our own act of looking.”

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Exhibition View: Jude Rae, various objects, Two Rooms, Auckland (11 April–17 May 2025). Courtesy Two Rooms.
Exhibition View: Jude Rae, various objects, Two Rooms, Auckland (11 April–17 May 2025). Courtesy Two Rooms.
Exhibition View: Jude Rae, various objects, Two Rooms, Auckland (11 April–17 May 2025). Courtesy Two Rooms.
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About the Artist

Jude Rae (b. 1956, Sydney, Australia) is a Sydney-based artist primarily known for her still life paintings, portraits and architectural interiors. The non-narrative imagery Rae employs allows the viewer’s attention to dwell on the formal and material aspects of representational painting, encouraging a reflective and considered approach to the complexities of visual experience. Pulling the viewer into a rich sensate terrain, Rae’s still lives invite us into painted environments that appear doubly real, offering what is one of the primary pleasures of representational painting: the play of the material fact of paint itself with recognition as it occurs in the illusion of depiction.

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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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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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