The Spectre's Cessation by Meghan Geliza
TE KARANGA GALLERY
April 28 – May 11, 2011
Opening Reception Thursday, 28 April, 7.30 – 9.30 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 6pm
Te Karanga Gallery
208 Karangahape Rd
Auckland 1010
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Te Karanga Gallery presents Adieu False Heart, a solo exhibition by Meghan Geliza.
In her first ever solo exhibition, Meghan’s latest large-scale paintings on wood explore the converging human triumphs and catastrophes that come with eros. Using a cacophony of colours, rigid but seemingly alive statues, and animal symbolism, Meghan weaves elaborate painted tapestries that comment on dual concepts such as union-dissolution, stability-change, and constraint-transcendence. Different fantastical lakes are used as the setting, conveying the tone for each visual narrative.
Meghan is a self-taught pop surrealist painter living in Auckland. Exhibits of note include: selected as one of the Signature Wall artists at the New Zealand Art Show (2009), First Thursdays (2009 and 2010), Crossover Group Show t the Reagan Lee Gallery in Newmarket (2009), Two-man show with Mexican artist Alfonso de Anda in St. Kevin’s Arcade (2010), and the Pink Noise Art Show Kingsland (2010). She’s also working on a major gallery show for November 2011, collaborating with another Auckland-based surrealist.
She was inducted last year as one of the event managers of First Thursdays, and is constantly inspired by tattoo culture, yoga and the Delta Blues.
Opening night includes live music and a special Burlesque performance.
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Pop Surrealism is a global art movement that originated in Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. It is currently under the umbrella of the New Contemporary Art movement. Hallmarks of the genre are its emphasis on the figurative and
a strong visual narrative conveyed on the piece. These works also reference our current pop culture, childhood influences or our globalised collective consciousness.
