This month, 250 Gallery is featuring the works of the gallery director Tina Frantzen with her exhibition Emerge.
Opening Tuesday 5 December 5pm-8pm. We would love you to come and join us to preview the works. The show will run through until Christmas closing on Friday 22 December. Wednesday to Sunday 10am-5pm
This exhibition is a continuation of Tina’s works created by a process of revealing, using the qualities of light to illuminate elusive and enigmatic figures, theatrical figures that occupy the small, ephemeral moments between larger happenings.
Tina paints intuitively, the details of each being unknown to her before painting commences, so that with each work there is a process of discovery. By not naming the pieces, Tina shares this sense of discovery with her audience who are free to interpret each painting as they wish.
"For any artist the crucial moment is the first touch. When faced with a blank canvas or the darkness on a canvas, the first touch is important and here Tina has had exceptional courage because it is not planned. With that first touch wonderfully exotic images are allowed to emerge from the imagination and from the canvas. The adjectives that occur to me are spontaneity and exoticness. There is lovely movement in them and a strong element of mystery all emerging from the darkness – beautiful, lovely. The result is very atmospheric." T J McNamara 2019
Tina's works are in private collections and also in that of the Arts House Trust.
ART LATE – Thursday 7 December, 5pm-8 pm
We are delighted to announce that 250 Gallery is now part of ART LATE. In association with first Thursdays, Aotearoa’s largest concentration of 26 art galleries on Karangahape and Ponsonby Roads, will be open late and hosting special events, exhibitions and more – come along and join the buzz. For more info see: www.karangahaperoad.com/art-late PLAYBACK THEATRE
This month we will be hosting the Auckland Playback Theatre on Friday 8 December 7pm- 8.30pm. Gold coin koha.
CHARCOAL AND CHALK – fun art sessions These will recommence in January next year. For more details, please contact Tina: tinafrantzen@gmail.com
Thanks to all of you who have supported the gallery since our opening 14 months ago. We remain popped-up and will continue to do so for a while yet as we have guest artists booked until the end of June next year. Some exciting exhibitions yet to come!
The gallery will be closed from 22 December to 10 January.
250 Gallery, 250 Ponsonby Road. M: 0274 519 662, Instagram: tinafrantzenartist; and two.fiftygallery
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Published: November 2023