| Luise Fong |
Biography1964 Selected Solo Exhibitions2006 - Remix, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington2006 - Judith Anderson Gallery, Hastings 2005 - sync, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington 2004 - Elemental, Starkwhite, Auckland 2004 - Recent Paintings, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington 2002 - Turbo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 2002 - Metaphor, Snowwhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland 2000 - Luminescence, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 2000 - Trans, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1999 - Transit, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1998 - Recent Paintings, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland 1998 - Nova, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1998 - Sonar, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong 1997 - Echo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 1997 - Chamber, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1997 - Fathom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland 1996 - Scent, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 1996 - Nostalgia, Basement Gallery, Melbourne 1995 - More Human, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Fisher Gallery, Auckland 1995 - UFO, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland 1995 - Small Orbits, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 1994 - Recent Paintings, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland 1993 - Chen, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland 1993 - Pathology, Brooker Gallery, Wellington 1993 - Meniscus, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch 1992 - Speak (window installation), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991 - Half Light Paintings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington 1991 - Artbeat, The Bathhouse, Rotorua 1991 - Recent works, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland 1990 - Recent works, Brooker Gallery, Wellington 1989 - Past Presence, Fish Shop Gallery, Auckland Selected Group Exhibitions2005 - Winter, Ngaumatau Gallery, Queenstown2004 - HOME/GROUND - SCAPE Biennial 04, Christchurch 2004 - Sticky, Randolph Street Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland 2003-04 - Flaunt: Art/Fashion/Culture, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland 2003-04 - Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland 1999 - Contemporary Melbourne Abstraction, Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne 1996 - Skirting Abstraction, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1996 - referencing, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1996 - Transfusion, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong; New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland 1995 - Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington 1995 - A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington 1995 - The Nervous System, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; City Gallery, Wellington 1994 - Station to Station: the Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1994 - Ten Years On, Fisher Gallery, Auckland 1994 - Taking Stock of the Nineties, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui 1993 - Small Works, ASA Gallery, Auckland 1993 - Studio Ceramics: Dinner Service Show, Fisher Gallery, Auckland 1992 - Light Sensitive, Artspace, Auckland 1992 - After Dark, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1992 - Shadow of Style: Eight New Artists, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1992 - Surface Tension: Ten Artists in the Nineties, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1992 - The Carnivelesque Body, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1991 - exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish and blissful art, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1991 - Catholic Taste, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1991 - Speaking Through The Crack in the Mirror, Artspace, Auckland 1990 Pandora’s Box (installation with Deborah Smith), George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1989 - Artistic Collusions, Pembridge, Auckland 1989 - Fascination, Brooker Gallery, Wellington 1988 - 20,000 Leagues, Fish Shop Gallery, Auckland 1985 - Decoration As Camouflage (installation with Diana Lee Gobbitt), Last and First Café, Auckland Selected BibliographyAnderson, C. ‘Luise Fong’ (exhibition essay), Tinakori Gallery, Wellington, 2004Barton, C. ‘At the surface’, Surface Tension: Ten Artists in the 90s, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 1992 Brown, W. 100 New Zealand Paintings, Godwit Publishing Ltd., Auckland, 1995 Burke, G. Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand (catalogue essay), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington, 1995 Byrt, A. ‘I am Luise’s Body’, New Zealand Listener, February 28 – March 5 2004 Cheng, S. ‘Sonar’ (review), Art Asia Pacific, Issue 21, 1999 Dale, R. ‘This Floating Life’, Fusion (Hong Kong / Auckland Artist’s exchange), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1996 Dunn, M. Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Craftsman House, 1996 Dunn, M. New Zealand Painting: A Concise History, Auckland University Press, 2003 Kember, P. Asian Art News, Volume 8, Number 3, May / June 1998 Kent, R. ‘An Ambiguous Abstraction: Recent Paintings by Luise Fong’, Art New Zealand, Number 86, Autumn 1998 Kent, R. ‘Nostalgia’ (exhibition essay), Basement Gallery, Melbourne, 1996 Lancashire, R. ‘Total Recall’, Vogue Australia, June 1998 McAloon, W. ‘Ways of the Cross’, Station to Station: The Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1994 McKenzie, S. ‘Turn Out the Light’, Midwest 2, 1992 McNamara, T. J. ‘Seeing Beyond Red’, The New Zealand Herald, February 18 2004 Milburn, F. ‘Girl Interrupted: The Art of Luise Fong’, Art New Zealand, Number 119, Winter 2006 Milburn, F. ‘Happy-Joyful-Home’, Home-Ground, Art & Industry Biennial Trust, Christchurch, 2004 Milburn, F. ‘Luise Fong Universe’, B.118: Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Annex, Spring 1999 Miles, A. ‘Essential Viewing’, Planet, Issue 14, Spring 1994 Nealie, T. ‘Beyond the Surface’, New Zealand Home and Building, April / May 1995 Nelson, R. ‘Nostalgia Shows the Way Forward’, The Melbourne Age, February 14 1996 Rhodes, C. ‘Luise Fong – sync’ (exhibition essay), Tinakori Gallery, Wellington, May 2005 Smith, A. ‘A Very Peculiar Practice: A User’s Guide’, A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington, 1995 Smith, A. ‘Toxic & Tenebrous: Urban Beauty in the Art of Luise Fong’, Midwest 6, 1994 Vaigro, W. ‘Cosmographies: A Pathologist’s Diary’, Art Asia Pacific, Volume 2, Number 2, 1995 Weir, V. ‘Happy-Joyful-Home’, Art News, Winter 2004 Wood, A. P. ‘Escape from the Garden City’, Urbis, Autumn 2005 CollectionsAuckland Art Gallery |
