Mark Amery reviews Liyen Chong in the Dominion Post

Two excellent public gallery exhibitions opened over the weekend featuring Liyen Chong's work.

In Auckland

Liyen Chong: of Positions and half Positions having several marks at once
(26 August - 29th October 2011)
The Gus Fisher Gallery
The Kenneth Myers Centre
74 Shortland Street

http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/galleries-and-collections/gus-fisher-gallery/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=416465

In Wellington

Knitted and Knotted
(27th August - 20th November)
The Dowse Art Museum
45 Laings Road
Lower Hutt

http://www.dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Knitted--Knotted/

Liyen Chong - exhibition opening

Liyen Chong is an emerging artist based in Auckland with exciting horizons in her practice. Having successfully negotiated her practice around diverse disciplines of painting, graphic design and embroidery with hair she has been working on expanding her oeuvre during her time at the McCahon House. Liyen has been exploring phenomenology, Eastern thought and its implications for her art practice in New Zealand.

Having grown up in both Malaysia and China, Liyen Chong migrated to New Zealand in her mid teens and completed her MFA in Christchurch. Chong settled in Auckland in late 2005 after travelling around the world on a scholarship provided by the University of Canterbury. Since then she has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia and her work is present in public collections such as the Chartwell Collection and the National Gallery of Australia.

Dasein (Being There.) opens at Page Blackie Gallery at 5:30pm, Tuesday 16 August.

Contact the Gallery for more details.

Dick Frizzell features in the Spring Edition of Art New Zealand Magazine

Page Blackie Gallery artist Dick Frizzell features in the Spring Edition of Art New Zealand. Edward Hanfling talks with Frizzell about how his art practice has evolved over the last twenty years, offering some fascinating insight into his recent return to landscape painting.

Page Blackie Gallery at the Auckland Art Fair 2011

The works are installed - ready for an exciting weekend ahead!

The Auckland Art Fair runs from the 4th of August through to the 7th. Page Blackie Gallery are proud to be showing work from a number of our represented artists including; Paul Dibble, Neil Dawson, Liyen Chong, Emily Wolfe, Nina Gehl, Max Gimblett, Heather Straka, Luise Fong, Sarah Munro and Andrew Drummond.

Liyen Chong at The Suter Art Gallery

Page Blackie Gallery artist Liyen Chong features in Crowning Glory, an exhibition of historical artifacts and contemporary art, opening at The Suter Gallery in Nelson today.

Page Blackie Gallery has a solo exhibition of Liyen's work coming up in August. Please contact the Gallery for more details.

Michael Hight exhibition opens next Tuesday

Michael Hight's new exhibition, Reliquary, opens at Page Blackie Gallery on Tuesday 19 July. Click the above image for a further sneak preview, or contact the Gallery for further details.

Liyen Chong's Favourite Things

As seen in the New Zealand Herald:

1. Asian Stationary
2. Theories and documents of contemporary art
3. Lucinda shelving
4. Plastic human skull
5. Malaysian/ Indonesian traditional Batik prints
6. Kitchen tools from Ikea
7. Paint and Colour
8. Post-it notes
9. Peter Robinson's student work
10. John Baldessari

Read more

Dick's new print

Check out the latest print from Dick Frizzell, in celebration of a major upcoming sporting event that no one is allowed to name unless you're a big credit card company or a bank.

Neil Dawson exhibition opening

Contact the Gallery for further details.

Israel Birch preview

Click here to view a sneak preview of one of Israel's new works. His exhibition opens on Tuesday next week. Contact the Gallery for further details.

Page Blackie Gallery now on Facebook

Page Blackie Gallery has just launched a Facebook page. We'll be posting exhibition images, information on print editions and the occasional shot of our artists in their studios. Just click the 'like' button up there at the top right of this screen, or follow this link to our page and click 'like'. That will also put you in the draw to win a Dick Frizzell print. Thanks for your support and good luck!

Karl Maughan makes his mark on the catwalk

Karl Maughan's hyper real gardens were turned into "walking pieces of art" by New Zealand label Stolen Girlfriends Club, at Australian Fashion Week in Sydney last night.

While Karl has already collaborated on both graffiti works and sculpture, it is his first foray into the fashion world.

Travelling to Sydney to see the results of the collaboration, he described the imagery used as being "part Monet's garden in Giverny and part New Zealand garden".

To read the full article on Stuff News click here .

Page Blackie welcomes NINA GEHL

Marcia and James are proud to welcome a new represented artist to Page Blackie Gallery.

Nina Gehl is a London-based, American artist, who has recently exhibited alongside Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Patrick Hughes and many more, in London’s prestigious Shoreditch Ball.

Living and exhibiting in London, Nina’s recent work mixes the medium of oil with ash from burnt wood or cremated remains, to create portraits- either of young women or of images which relate to the origin of the ash.

Born in Buffalo, New York, she received an MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art and went on to complete an Associate Research degree at City & Guilds of London Art School.

Gehl’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the US, Europe, and the UK, including private collections, and in 2008 she was selected as a finalist for the Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize in Barcelona.

Nina’s first exhibition with Page Blackie Gallery will be in mid-September this year.

James Blackie and Jonathan Smart on Nightline

Nightline caught a clip of James and Jonathan Smart installing Jonathan's exhibition at Page Blackie. Click the image to view the clip.

Paul Dibble exhibition in Palmerston North

Paul Dibble and Fran Dibble opened a major exhibition of their work last night at Te Manawa, in Palmerston North. James took this video to give you an idea of the incredible beauty and scale of the works in the exhibition.

Jonathan Smart @ Page Blackie Gallery as seen in the Dominion Post

Jonathan, James and Marcia are featured in the Dominion Post today. We are very much looking forward to the exhibition opening on Tuesday.

Max Gimblett features at the Andy Warhol Museum

Max Gimblett has been selected to represent Buddhism in "The Word of God", opening September 17 2011, at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg. Comprised of five solo exhibitions, each featured artist represents one of the five great religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judasim and Islam.

The Museum has published the following commentary on its website:

At a time when political parties fight viciously for the higher moral ground, when controversy reigns in the building of mosques and when bigotry, abortion & same sex marriage are wedges of division in our culture there still remains room for interfaith understanding.

The Warhol Museum has in its sixteen year history, presented difficult or controversial imagery and art in order to spark community dialogue.

Jonathan Smart @ Page Blackie Gallery

In response to the situation in Christchurch, we are proud to welcome Jonathan Smart Gallery to Wellington for a relief exhibition at Page Blackie Gallery.
"Jonathan Smart @ Page Blackie" will feature work by leading New Zealand artists from Jonathan's gallery, which was tragically condemned in the Christchurch quake. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 3 May.
We are delighted to invite you to attend the opening and, most importantly, to support Jonathan and his artists through these very difficult times in Canterbury.

Click on the above image to enlarge. Contact Page Blackie Gallery for further details.

Liyen Chong at the McCahon Residency

We visited Liyen Chong at the McCahon House in Titirangi last week. Liyen is the current McCahon House Artist in Residence in the beautiful studio built among the native bush next door to Colin McCahon's Titirangi home, now a museum. Liyen has been in residence since February.