John reynolds artist wife
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John Reynolds
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 and BIG WAVE TERRITORY, commissioned by New Plymouth's Art in Public Places Trust for the Coastal Walkway,
Reynolds is also recognised for the diversity of his practice and ability to work in a variety of scenes such as - architecture (with Nicolas Stevens), fashion (with Workshop, World and Karen Walker), music and publishing (record, book and magazine covers) and television (Questions for Mr Reynolds documentary with Shirley Horrocks and Works End with Chris Knox for Art Land).
Solo shows include: FrenchBayDarkl
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John Reynolds
SUMWHR/SUMTIME
2021
1400 x 1000 x 35 mm
metallic marker, acrylic and rainwater on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Estimate: NZD 7,000 — 11,000
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SUMWHR/SUMTIME is Reynolds' self-referential homage to the centrality of Karangahape Road to the life of Tāmaki Makaura. It also succinctly calls to two 2001 projects: Reynold’s solo exhibition Harry Human Heights at Artspace Aotearoa, and K Rd to Kingdom Come: John Reynolds Painting Projects, 1995 – 2001, exhibited at The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
The bright-lights big-city vibe of this canvas is ameliorated by the sprinkle of rainwater that activates the surface with a mournful resonance. Reynolds’ work often reaches for the space between text and arrays of pigment as a form of quotation into which meditative narratives can be articulated.
A recent example of such a performative excursion was the 2016 exhibition just down K’Road at Reynolds dealer gallery Starkwhite entitled WalkWithMe which proposed a painter’s re
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds lives and works in Auckland and over the past three decades has established a reputation as a painter, a drawer, a worker or words and an installation artist. He began his career painting large abstract colour fields, slowly evolving into structural text-based imagery. His work is rich with literary, religious, art historical and architectural allusions and ranges in scale from the intimate to epic. Reynold’s paintings, drawings and prints utilise materials in an expressive manner that moves between sensuality and austerity. Sometimes they present a singular idea, stripped back, more recently ideas and imagery are overlaid or collected together in such a way that the association between elements is poetic, not fixed. His work is suggestive and evades locked meaning. It has the fluidity of the human mind.
Born 1956, Auckland, New Zealand, John Reynolds graduated from the Auckland University School of Fine Arts in 1978. Solo exhibitions include: The Violet Hour, 2019, a large-scale site-specific window work commissioned by the Auckland Art Gallery T
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