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Autumn Collection, Symptomatic Treatment: Jason Lindsay
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2005
for JASON LINDSAY’s exhibition at Special Gallery
Jason Lindsay’s work has tended to repeat itself— both internally, inside a series, and between series. Boxes shadow boxes, and echo other boxes: shelves, tables, slats, speakers, a bunker. -
QUICK
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2004
for the ‘Quick’ exhibition at Window and the George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
I’m particularly intrigued by work in which the communicative dimension is relayed with a degree of discretion: by which word I’m gesturing towards a quality of containedness, a sense of self-conscious restraint and subtlety, perhaps even humour. When ‘meaning’ is positioned at this kind of oblique angle to “subject“, there is space left for the un-prescribed. -
Quick Fix
ESSAY and PHOTOGRAPHS by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for the ‘QUICK’ exhibition at Window and George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Perhaps it is tiring to think of how fast we try to live? It seems normal for us to feel that we didn’t get what we planned done, because there’s too much to do. -
Stalling Time, Wasting Space: Michelle Menzies
ESSAY by LISA CROWLEY, 2004
for MICHELLE MENZIES ‘Passings’ exhibition, NZFA Auckland.
Michelle Menzies’ installation Passings, presents us with images taken of various spaces around Auckland. There are two photos, one of an empty carpark, which looks out over the city port, the other a disused quarry in St Johns. A third work, House Study is a video projection of an old, large villa from an inner city Auckland suburb.