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Grand Central (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 1703 x 2402 x 35 mm
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Country Corner (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 803 x 1051 x 35 mm
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Sunlit Track (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 802 x 1051 x 35 mm
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Shaded Track (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 803 x 1002 x 35 mm
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The Road West from Lawrence (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 1502 x 3000 x 35 mm
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The Honey Shoppe (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 750 x 1052 x 35 mm
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Abandoned Business (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 452 x 550 x 35 mm
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Hay Rack (2012) oil on linen, stretcher: 450 x 550 x 35 mm
Celebrating both the grand and the intimate, Dick Frizzell’s new works are reminiscent of the time-honoured road trip. Small works reveal secret spots discovered en route and expansive vistas show lands yet to be explored. The title work of the show, Grand Central, lays out folded hills and hazy mountains for our contemplation; Frizzell’s brushwork shimmers across the surface of the canvas. We stand on top of the ridge, drawn down into the valley by farm fences, powerlines and the metal road. As well as functioning as strong compositional devices, more importantly these speak to the New Zealand rural vernacular that Frizzell has visited over and again. The foregrounded hills are figured with sheep tracks and tractor furrows, but the backdrop to this recognisable, man-made country is an eroded, untamed massif, full of stark grandeur. The paintings possess a real sense of distances travelled, often due to the repeated motif of roads and paths. Seen from what appears to be the driver’s seat, the familiarity of Frizzell’s scenes make it easy for us to imagine what lies beyond the hill or around the bend. In Shaded Track, he uses literal road markers and tyre tracks to enhance the picture in our mind’s eye. The tiny, golden treetop seen just over the rise, and the low wash of light on the cutting, draw the gaze and allow us to place the scene temporally as well as physically. Frizzell’s ability to make the ordinary worthy of consideration is something seen throughout his practice: signs advertising apples, wheelbarrows, and tinned fish have all been immortalised in oils by the artist. The Honey Shoppe is the type of small country shop that can be found in any part of the country, although those familiar with the road south out of Dunedin will recognise it instantly. Frizzell presents it honestly, complete with 44gallon drums, hand-lettered sign and mock-Tudor spelling. He does not mock or denigrate its simplicity, but celebrates its continued existence.
EXHIBITION PRICELIST 1
Grand Central (2012)
POA
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Country Corner (2012)
49,000
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Sunlit Track (2012)
49,000
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Shaded Track (2012)
49,000
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The Road West from Lawrence (2012)
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The Honey Shoppe (2012)
49,000
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Abandoned Business (2012)
24,000
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Hay Rack (2012)
24,000
POA
All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition
DICK FRIZZELL b. 1943, lives Auckland
Still Life with French Bread (1987)
“It was while working in the environment of commercial advertising that Frizzell began to pluck familiar objects from their usual context and turn them into arresting images. Several products that were ‘household’ names to New Zealanders in the late 1970’s became icons in Frizzell’s hands. From sources as varied as canned fish wrappers, corner shop signage and junk mail, he turned images into paintings, giving titles that introduced unexpected associations.”(1) Frizzell’s work has often had “an eclectic quality, brought about by the variety of styles he has borrowed, pastiched or commented on in his art. In much of his imagery, no line is drawn between low art sources such as comic book illustrations or packaging and the high art references with which his painting is freely sprinkled.”(2) Prints and paintings "inspired by comics, advertising trademarks, Maori iconography and rural road signs have flowed out of him for more than four decades, during which time Frizzell has enlivened the local art world with his wit. His is a world in which no image is too sacred or too banal." (3) Born in Auckland in 1943, Dick Frizzell studied at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts between 1960 and 1963. He has an art practice that spans over 50 years. His works are held in all major public, corporate and private collections in New Zealand. He has also completed a number of major commissions including works for Sky City Casino (Auckland) and the painting of an Ansett New Zealand aeroplane for Starship Children's Hospital. In 1997 a retrospective exhibition of his work, Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste, was toured to major national institutions. In 2009 his book, Dick Frizzell: The Painter, was published.
1. Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow, Contemporary New Zealand Art 2, 1999 2. Michael Dunn, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, 1996 3. Grant Smithies, “Accidental Artist,” Sunday Star Times, September 2008
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DICK FRIZZELL b. 1943, lives Auckland EDUCATION 1964
Ilam Art School, Canterbury, New Zealand
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (1986 -) 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
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Grand Central milford galleries queenstown Selected Paintings 1981 – 2009, milford galleries queenstown Rugby, Rhyming and Here, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland The Gloves Are Off, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin Treasures from a Skull Cave, Black Barn Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay Walking Back to Happiness, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Recent Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown Recent Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin An Event of One, Dick Frizzell in Antarctica 2005, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Recent Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin The Pumpkin is a Red Herring, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Please keep us safe while we sleep by the fire, Hawkes Bay Art Museum Pleased to remember, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland What is this, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Welcome to Sunny Hawkes Bay, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Home Truths, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Exhibition of Paintings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Patched Up, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington What I Yam - the Junk Mail Narratives, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Dick Frizzell, Portrait of a Serious Artiste, City Gallery Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin Vanity Vanity, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Popova to Remuera, John Leech Gallery, Auckland Summer Muster, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington Construction from Freedom, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Lost and Found, Lesley Kriesler Gallery, New Plymouth Line and Point, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch Lesley Kriesler Gallery, New Plymouth Ambitious Objects, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington P.O.P. Past on Paper, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Hoi Te Toi Te, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland No Figure Necessary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland European Descendant, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Hook, Line and Sinker, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington The Agua Amarga Suite, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Selected Hook, Line and Sinker Works, Lesley Kriesler Gallery, New Plymouth South Island Landscapes, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland South Island Landscapes, Exhibited at the Carnegie Centre, Dunedin, Tiki, Works on Paper at Salamander Gallery Art Centre, Christchurch, Tiki, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland What’s the Big Idea?, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington South Island Landscapes, CSA Gallery, Christchurch Big Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Images for Lovers, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Lithographs, Muka Studio and Regent Hotel, Auckland Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Heads On, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland
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Spring Catalogue, milford galleries queenstown The Review, milford galleries queenstown Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin Royal Queenstown Easter Show, milford galleries queenstown Spring Catalogue, milford galleries queenstown Gow Langsford Gallery Spring Catalogue 2011, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, milford galleries queenstown Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin John Leech & Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Bloom, milford galleries queenstown The Review, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin Tiki Tour, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei Recent Floral Works, milford galleries queenstown Telecom Prospect: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington Notable Works – major investment profile works by leading NZ artists, milford galleries queenstown The Cartoon Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Screens, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Landscapes, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (with Karl Maughan). Spring Exhibition, Anderson Park Gallery, Timaru Dream Collectors, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Catalogue Exhibition, Milford Galleries Dunedin Figurative Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Design Love Story, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin Stop Making Sense, Collaboration with Shane Cotton, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington Works on Paper, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland The Artistic Process, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth A Peculiar Practice: 40 New Zealand Painters, Wellington City Art Gallery H2O, Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt Gaugain Tribute, RKS Gallery, Auckland Test Strip Fundraiser Show, Test Strip Gallery, Auckland Ho Ho Ho, Christmas Group Show, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington, Landscape Survey, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. Hammond, Frizzell, Stevenson, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland The Spectrum Collection, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Finalist, Visa Gold Award, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington Artist’s Wallpaper, The Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland Artists Fax, CSA Gallery, Christchurch Christmas Show, FHE Gallery, Auckland, Elvis in Geyserland, Rotorua Art Gallery, Rotorua Artists Ceramics, Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland Christmas Giving, Artspace Gallery, Auckland Helping the Recovery, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Big Green, Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt Real Surreal, CSA Gallery, Christchurch Cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb, James Wallace Gallery, Wellington Artiture Show Tour, New Zealand with Russian Constructivist Tiki Rug
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1991
Wild West Show, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland Art and Organised Labour, Touring Show
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 2010 1997
Wolfe, Richard and Stephen Robinson, Artists At Work, Penguin Books, London, England Frizzell, Dick, Dick Frizzell: The Painter, Godwit: Auckland Allan Smith, Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste, (catalogue) The City Gallery, Wellington/Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1997
Egyptian Style Tiki (1998)
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