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Bergman Gallery
Bergman Gallery is an international commercial art gallery with an original gallery in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and a second gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. The gallery was first established in 2016 by Ben Bergman in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Bergman Gallery represents and has represented many significant international artists from New Zealand, Cook Islands and Australia, including Fatu Feu'u, Luise Fong, Andy Leleisi'uao, Reuben Paterson, Michel Tuffery, Billy Apple, Mahiriki Tangaroa, Sylvia Marsters, Benjamin Work, Lucas Grogan, Luke Thurgate and Telly Tuita. History Bergman Gallery was previously known as BCA Gallery in Rarotonga, Cook Islands between 2001-2015, and during 2016 it was rebranded into Bergman Gallery under director Ben Bergman. After participated in the past five Auckland Art Fairs, Bergman Gallery director felt there was a niche in the market for Contemporary Pacific art and decided to open a second gallery in Auckland, New Zealand in 2022. Bergman Gallery i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commercial Art Gallery
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art, or acts as the intermediary between the buyers and sellers of art. An art dealer in contemporary art typically seeks out various artists to represent, and builds relationships with collectors and museums whose interests are likely to match the work of the represented artists. Some dealers are able to anticipate market trends, while some prominent dealers may be able to influence the taste of the market. Many dealers specialize in a particular style, period, or region. They often travel internationally, frequenting exhibitions, auctions, and artists' studios looking for good buys, little-known treasures, and exciting new works. When dealers buy works of art, they resell them either in their galleries or directly to collectors. Those who deal in contemporary art in particular usually exhibit artists' works in their own galleries. They will often take part in preparing the works of art to be revealed or process ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karangahape Road
Karangahape Road (commonly known as K' Road) is one of the main streets in the central business district (CBD) of Auckland, New Zealand. The massive expansion of motorways through the nearby inner city area – and subsequent flight of residents and retail into the suburbs from the 1960s onwards – turned it from one of Auckland's premier shopping streets into a marginal area with the reputation of a red light district. Now considered to be one of the cultural centres of Auckland, since the 1980s–1990s it has been undergoing a slow process of gentrification, and is now known for off-beat cafes and boutique shops. It runs west–east along a ridge at the southern edge of the Auckland CBD, perpendicular to Queen Street, the city's main street. At its intersection with Ponsonby Road in the west, Karangahape Road becomes Great North Road, at its eastern end it connects to Grafton Bridge. Etymology Karangahape is a word from the Māori language. Before Europeans appeared Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Museums And Galleries In Auckland
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Sagapolutele
Raymond Eddie Sagapolutele (born 1971) is a New Zealand photographer and visual artist of Samoan descent, active as a photographer since 2003. Career Sagapolutele was born in the South Auckland suburb of Ōtāhuhu in 1971, with ancestral ties to the villages of Fatuvalu in Savai’i and Saluafata in Upolu, Sāmoa. His early years were spent in Invercargill and Waikato, before the family returned to live in Manurewa in 1980. From 2003, he worked as a staff photographer for the publications ''Back to Basics'' and ''Rip It Up'', as well as regular submissions to '' The New Zealand Herald'' and ''Metro'' magazine. Over the past decade, Raymond has exhibited his work in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Auckland, and is also a proud member of the respected graffiti collective TMD. Sagapolutele is a talented artist and founding member of the ManaRewa art collective, which is based at Nathan Homestead in Manurewa. As a senior member, he actively tutors and su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanja McMillan
Tanja Jade McMillan (born Tanja Jade Thompson, also Tanja Jade, and Misery 1982, Maryborough, Australia) is a graffiti artist, and painter of Tahitian and Chinese descent best known as Misery, is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. Art career McMillan started painting as Misery since she was at Auckland Metropolitan College in 1997, where she became friends with fellow student, Elliot O'Donnell, best known as Askew, who given McMillan the name Misery. In 2010, McMillan temporarily abandoned the name Misery at age 28 when she felt the brand Misery was consuming her, by ceremonially auctioning off the last of the Misery works at Webb's auction house in Auckland. McMillan has since reclaimed the name Misery and describes her style as kimo-kawaii, creepy and cute in Japanese. Her husband is a well known New Zealand tattoo artist Tom McMillan, best known as Tom Tom. There are two bronze sculptures named ''Twist'' and ''Thief'' by McMillan on Karangahape Road, commissioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhea Maheshwari
Rhea Maheshwari (born 1993 Mumbai, India) is an Indian and New Zealand artist notable for her colour palette of blues and purples pastels coloured dreamscapes, she primarily creates large-scale ornamental paintings that resemble tapestries. Maheshwari also draws inspiration from 17th- and 18th-century Mughal miniatures, especially their decorative and ornamental elements. Biography Maheswari arrived in New Zealand as a child with her family from Mumbai. The exhibition ''Kiss Taraf'' (2023) at The Art Paper headquarters, represents her journey in New Zealand as she discovers authentic ways to express herself. Maheswari highlights the challenges faced by Asian artists in New Zealand who encounter resistance from both their families and the art world. She said. "There are so many things working against you, including family members who misunderstand our artistic pursuits." and "You have to grapple with the feeling of being an outsider and make it a part of your life journey of cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Oberg Humphries
Nina Oberg Humphries (born 1990) is a New Zealand multimedia artist and Pacific arts advocate and multimedia artist of Cook Islands descent. Born in Christchurch in 1990, Oberg Humphries graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in 2015. Oberg Humphries co-founded Fibre Gallery in Christchurch, a space for Pacific artists and the first gallery of its kind in the South Island, a place where Pacific peoples can learn about their heritage and their cultures. Fibre Gallery was established by Oberg Humphires because there were no platforms for Pacific artists to have opportunities, and there are not many Pacific art being displayed in Christchurch. She is also a deputy chair for SCAPE Public Art SCAPE Public Art is a producer of public art in Christchurch, New Zealand. Deborah McCormick started SCAPE Public Art in 1998. History Deborah McCormick, in her first year after graduating in 1988 from the University of Canterbury School of ... board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Gragg
Joan Elisabeth Gragg (also Joan Rolls-Gragg, Joan Rolls Gragg; born 1943) is a senior artist and educator from the Cook Islands, with painting career spanning five decades. She founded the Cook Islands' first and only premier art gallery, Beachcomber Contemporary Art (now Bergman Gallery), in 1991. Gragg graduated with a Master of Art and Design degree from Auckland University of Technology in 2010. There was an opportunity for Gragg to work towards a doctorate in art but she has discounted that for the meantime. Gragg's practice centres on the changes to everyday life in the Cook Islands, exploring changes over the decades, with people drifting further apart with the introduction of new technology such as new forms of transportation as opposed to walking, and single plastic chairs instead of traditional wooden benches. According to Gragg, she aims to showcase the "joy, camaraderie, love, and all the other great things that happen in a community in the Cook Islands", and to vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian George (artist)
Ian David George (1953–2016) was a New Zealand-born Cook Islands senior painter, carver, educator, and curator of Atiu and Rarotonga descent. George was a founding member of the Cook Island Arts Association and a former chairperson of the Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, In 1988, George relocated to Rarotonga to explore his family's heritage in the Cook Islands and to re-establish the art department at Tereora College, a national college. George later returned to New Zealand in 1995 to oversee the art department at Hillary College. In 1998, he curated ''Paringa Ou'', the first major exhibition of contemporary art by Cook Island artists residing in New Zealand, featuring artists such as Ani O'Neill, Sylvia Marsters, Mahiriki Tangaroa, Michel Tuffery, Jim Vivieaere, Ian George, and Kay George. The exhibition travelled to the National Museum in Fiji, and Cook Islands National Museum, as well as Fisher Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. The exhibition was sponsored by the New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louie Bretaña
Louis Joseph Rivera Bretaña (born 1967) is a Filipino-born New Zealand painter and sculptor with roots in Manila and the Visayan province of Iloilo. Bretaña graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and moved to New Zealand in 2011. He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with first-class honours (2018) and a Master of Fine Arts degree (2019) from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Bretaña's work actively challenges Euro-western colonial histories and encouraging a respectful engagement with culture via conversation and interaction. Bretaña's notable performance piece ''Eat My Rice'' was held in multiple locations throughout New Zealand, such as New Lynn Community Centre, Projectspace Gallery, RM Gallery, and Play_Station. ''Eat My Rice'' is a reimagining of the Filipino pre-colonial feast, where participants eat the rice with bare hands, food served on banana leaves, and letti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tungane Broadbent
Tungane Broadbent (born 1940, Mangaia, Cook Islands) is a Cook Islands artist, notable for her tivaevae/tivaivai, with her career making tivaivai spanning five decades. Broadbent founded the O’oa Fabric & Fibre Arts group in 2007, Rarotonga, to teach women to sew tivaivai. In 2006, Queensland Art Gallery commissioned her to produce a Mangaian tivaivai for the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial which is a feature of the Modern Art Gallery, hosted by Premier of Queensland Peter Beattie on behalf of the Queensland Government. In 2015, Creative New Zealand brought Tungane Broadbent, along with five other senior artists from the Cook Islands to New Zealand to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cooks Islands self-governance. In the same year, Tungane had an exhibition with Vereara Maeva-Taripo in Queensland Art Gallery named ''Tivaevae.'' ''Kaute (Hibiscus)'' made by Tungane and Vereara Maeva-Taripo was acquired by Christchurch Art Gallery. Tungane collaborated with renowne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. The main exhibition held in Castello, in the halls of the Arsenale and Biennale Gardens, alternates between art and architecture (hence the name ''biennale''; ''biennial''). The other events hosted by the Foundationspanning theatre, music, and danceare held annually in various parts of Venice, whereas the Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido. Organization Art Biennale The Art Biennale (La Biennale d'Arte di Venezia), is one of the largest and most important contemporary visual art exhibitions in the world. So-called because it is held biannually (in odd-numbered years), it is the original biennale on which others in the world have been modeled. The exhibition space spans over 7,000 square meters, and artists from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
