Andrew Barber + Jeena Shin, Movement, 2016. Photo by Mark Tantrum.
This large scale collaborative painting installation by Andrew Barber and Jeena Shin invites visitors to step into an all-encompassing abstract landscape.
Responding to the architecture of The Dowse and using only shades of black, white and grey, the artists’ collaboration becomes an enquiry into pattern that explores how shape and tone create movement. This new work for The Dowse will match Barber’s recent floor-paintings, which evoke the gentle swell and dip of the ocean, with Shin’s subtle geometric wall paintings, in which shapes recede and re-appear.
Working on a grand scale and taking over The Dowse’s largest gallery, this exhibition will allow visitors to become an active part of the artwork and get lost in the moment.
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Andrew Barber is based in Auckland. Selected exhibitions include Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (2015); A World Undone: Works from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (2014); New Revised Edition, City Gallery Wellington (2013); Zodiac, Enjoy Public Art Gallery Wellington (2010); We Go Far, and Way Back, Show Gallery, New York (2009); Andrew Barber, N.O.T. Toowoomba, Queensland (2006). Barber is represented by Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington and Hopkinson Mossman in Auckland.
Born in Seoul, Korea and based in Auckland, Jeena Shin has a Masters of Fine Arts from RMIT Melbourne. Selected exhibitions include Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (2015); Fractus Big Wall Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2011); ARTSPACE Stairwell Project (1973–) (2009–2011) ARTSPACE, Auckland; Te Tuhi Wall Project, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (2009); Yo Modernism II (2009) CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium; Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington, (2007). Shin is represented by Two Rooms in Auckland.