DICK FRIZZELL

DICK FRIZZELL UP THE ROAD

26 September - 21 October 2015 www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

Milford Galleries Dunedin 18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 info@milfordhouse.co.nz

Misty Morning on the Forgotten Highway (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 1058 x 1308 x 50 mm

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Misty Barn (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 1058 x 1308 x 50 mm

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Orinoco Driveway II (2014) acrylic on linen, frame: 920 x 1120 x 52 mm

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St John’s Presbyterian Omata (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 670 x 53 mm

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McCallum Aggregate (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 670 x 53 mm

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Near Tataraimaka, Taranaki (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 670 x 53 mm

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Another Stop on the Forgotten Highway (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 523 x 670 x 53 mm

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Vineyard Track (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 672 x 52 mm

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Hawkes Bay Lane (2014) acrylic on linen, frame: 520 x 670 x 52 mm

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Dark Track (2014) acrylic on canvas, frame: 520 x 670 x 52 mm

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Rapids Jet (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 582 x 733 x 55 mm

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Gate and Track (2014) acrylic on canvas, frame: 473 x 571 x 54 mm

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Somewhere on the Surf Highway, Taranaki (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 620 x 53 mm

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Limestone Road Kawhia (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 620 x 53 mm

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Orinoco Driveway (2014) acrylic on linen, frame: 520 x 670 x 52 mm

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Dusk Near Strathmore (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 620 x 53 mm

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Near 8 Mile Junction (2015) acrylic on canvas, frame: 522 x 620 x 53 mm

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Two Stumps (2015) acrylic on canvas, stretcher: 1800 x 2600 x 32 mm

Early Morning, Freeman’s Bay (2015) gouache on paper, frame: 447 x 505 x 53 mm

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Between Rotorua and Taupo (2015) gouache on paper, frame: 447 x 505 x 27 mm

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Second Haumoana Driveway (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 452 x 505 x 28 mm

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Country Avenue (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Private Driveway (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Rapids Jet (2015) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Gate and Track (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 452 x 505 x 28 mm

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Leafy Lane (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Private Driveway - Hawkes Bay (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Hawkes Bay Lane (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 451 x 505 x 28 mm

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Orinoco Driveway (2014) gouache on paper, frame: 452 x 505 x 29 mm

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Untitled (Stumps) (1994) graphite on paper, frame: 675 x 767 x 24 mm

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Described recently by T.J. McNamara in the New Zealand Herald as New Zealand’s ‘Picasso,’ Dick Frizzell has demonstrated time and again a stylistic virtuosity that is masterful, unique, astonishingly diverse and unparalleled in New Zealand art.

Up the Road admirably demonstrates Frizzell’s artistic processes in two substantial suites of co-joined works of gouache on paper and acrylic on canvas. The gouaches are exquisitely delivered with stroke by stroke certainty and profound sense of place.

The increased scale and textural qualities of the canvas paintings evidence how he then takes a work up in scale and broadens further the visual information and result.

“Each work has a road in the middle going into the distance in perspective. Some drive straight to the horizon while others curve away out of sight. They may be tar sealed or no more than rutted tracks. Many are rural driveways. Some pass through avenues of trees or go over a hill. They all pose the question: “Where does that lead to?” The roads, trees and light are painted with extraordinary skill” and “are completely successful. The sureness of Frizzell’s hand is seen in his firm touch in everything from fence posts to a variety of trees and the texture of road surfaces.

Every touch of paint is decisive and the quality is absolutely even.” (1) Frizzell has a visual language that is unmistakeably his own. Each work declares and hides information in ways that collectively constitute his painterly style. We experience visual rhythms in every work, see portions of buildings, eschew signs, fences, gates that are always open, trees alone in the landscape and landscapes made by trees.

This powerful, and let it also be stated, beautiful exhibition is extended further with three major works - Orinoco Driveway II (2014), Misty Morning on the Forgotten Highway (2015), Misty Barn (2015) - adding compellingly different tones, atmospheres and further evidence of Frizzell’s stylistic virtuosity. There is also an immense painting of two tree stumps and the drawing that was the source. This subject has occurred repeatedly through Frizzell’s career and constitutes one of the loaded narrative symbols of New Zealand art about our rural environment and its use.

1. T.J. McNamara, “On the Long and Winding Road,” New Zealand Herald, April 11, 2015.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST 1

Misty Morning on the Forgotten Highway (2015)

55,000

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Misty Barn (2015)

55,000

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Orinoco Driveway II (2014)

49,000

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St John's Presbyterian Omata (2015)

12,500

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McCallum Aggregate (2015)

12,500

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Near Tataraimaka, Taranaki (2015)

12,500

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Another Stop on the Forgotten Highway (2015)

12,500

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Vineyard Track (2015)

12,500

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Hawkes Bay Lane (2014)

12,500

10

Dark Track (2014)

12,500

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Rapids Jet (2015)

12,500

12

Gate and Track (2014)

12,500

13

Somewhere on the Surf Highway, Taranaki (2015) 12,500

14

Limestone Road Kawhia (2015)

12,500

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

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Orinoco Driveway (2014)

12,500

16

Dusk Near Strathmore (2015)

12,500

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Near 8 Mile Junction (2015)

12,500

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Two Stumps (2015)

POA

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Early Morning, Freeman's Bay (2015)

3,800

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Between Rotorua and Taupo (2015)

3,800

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Second Haumoana Driveway (2014)

3,800

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Country Avenue (2014)

3,800

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Private Driveway (2014)

3,800

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Rapids Jet (2015)

3,800

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Gate and Track (2014)

3,800

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Leafy Lane (2014)

3,800

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Private Driveway - Hawkes Bay (2014)

3,800

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Hawkes Bay Lane (2014)

3,800

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Orinoco Driveway (2014)

3,800

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Untitled (Stumps) (1994)

4,250

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 Red Jug (2009)

“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 2015

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Up the Road, Milford Galleries Dunedin Up the Road, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland When Tom and Elizabeth Took the Farm, Waikato Museum, Hamilton Up the Road, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington The Dance of the Hooligans, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 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

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Images for Lovers, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Lithographs, Muka Studio and Regent Hotel, Auckland Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Heads On, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014

Spring Catalogue, milford galleries queenstown Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin ART101: A Beginner’s Guide, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga Its Not Dry Yet, Chambers@241, Christchurch The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, milford galleries queenstown 2013 Spring Catalogue, milford galleries queenstown Parallel, Milford Galleries Dunedin New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Editions, Milford Galleries Dunedin New Works Group Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin 2012 Spring Catalogue, milford galleries Queenstown New Year, New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Painting the Hunt, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin Royal Queenstown Easter Show, milford galleries queenstown 2011 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 2010 John Leech & Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Bloom, milford galleries queenstown The Review, milford galleries queenstown 2009 Works on Paper, milford galleries queenstown 2008 Masterworks, milford galleries queenstown Works on Paper, Milford Galleries Dunedin 2006 Tiki Tour, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei 2005 Recent Floral Works, milford galleries queenstown 2004 Telecom Prospect: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington Notable Works, milford galleries queenstown 2001-2002 The Cartoon Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland 2001 Screens, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 1998 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 1997 Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Catalogue Exhibition, Milford Galleries Dunedin Figurative Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 1996 Design Love Story, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin 1995 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, 1994 Landscape Survey, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.

Hammond, Frizzell, Stevenson, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland The Spectrum Collection, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Artist’s Wallpaper, The Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland Artists Fax, CSA Gallery, Christchurch

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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 Wild West Show, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland Art and Organised Labour, Touring Show

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 2010 2002 2002 1999 1997 1996 1996 1993 1993 1993 1990 1988 1985 1980

Wolfe, Richard and Stephen Robinson, Artists At Work, Penguin Books, London, England Frizzell, Dick, Dick Frizzell: The Painter, Godwit: Auckland Little, Paul, Being Dick Frizzell, Audi Magazine, December 2002, pp52-57 Keith, Hamish, Out of Africa, Sunday Star Times, Sept 29,2002 Caughey, E. & John Gow, Contemporary New Zealand Art 2, David Bateman Ltd, Auckland, 1999, p60 Allan Smith, Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste, (catalogue) The City Gallery, Wellington/ Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1997 Dunn, Michael, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, p6467 O’Brien, Gregory, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Godwit, Auckland, 1996, p36-47,209 Binney , D.H., Trust myself not to go wrong: Dick Frizzell’s Tiki show, Art New Zealand, 66, Autumn 1993, p70-73,99 Leonard, Robert & John McCormack, Beyond the Pale: Dick Frizzell’s indigenuity, Art and Asia Pacific, June 1993, p36-41 Mita, Merata, Peter Shand talks to Ngahuia Te Awekotuku; Dick Frizzell interviewed by Paul Casserly, Tiki’s Off, Stamp, December/January, 1993 McAloon, William, Situation & Style: Vestiges of Regionalism in Recent New Zealand Art, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch, 1990 Binney, D.H., Landscape reassessed: some Auckland artists, Art New Zealand, 48, Spring 1988, p72-74 Binney, D.H., Testing Reality the Paintings of Dick Frizzell, Art New Zealand, 37, Summer 1985, p26-31 Barr, Jim & Mary, Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Vol 1, Alister Taylor, Martinborough, 1980, p80-85

Egyptian Style Tiki (1998)

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