Tim Melville Gallery

Tim Melville Gallery Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art Auckland, NZ https://lnk.bio/timmelvillegallery/

JOE SHEEHAN‘Line Drawing’Opening Wed 10th June @ 5.30pmDM for Catalogue
08/06/2026

JOE SHEEHAN

‘Line Drawing’

Opening Wed 10th June @ 5.30pm

DM for Catalogue

Two (amazing) senior NZ artists in the same frame.Today is the second-to-last day of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s exhibition...
05/06/2026

Two (amazing) senior NZ artists in the same frame.

Today is the second-to-last day of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s exhibition … and in a beautiful surprise Maureen Lander has been visiting, working on a woven sculpture for our LAND / MARK group show in July.

Looking up from my desk I stole this shot of Maureen with her flame-orange weaving alongside Alberto’s sky-blue ‘Big Bang Space’ on the wall behind.

In another beautiful coincidence I’ve just heard that Alberto was Maureen’s print-making teacher at Elam in the 1980s!

He tohu tērā.

Tomorrow is the final day of Alberto’s ’nothing is finished while I am’.

Joe Sheehan’s ‘Line Drawing’ opens in the Main Gallery next Wednesday.
Glenn Heenan’s ‘Ice Cream Monday’ will open in the Office Gallery the same evening.

Images soon. Please join us!

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ 💙1. ‘Big Bang Space’, 2000, mixed media on canvas, 870mm H x 730mm W2. ‘2012-66’, 2012, mixed med...
04/06/2026

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ 💙

1. ‘Big Bang Space’, 2000, mixed media on canvas, 870mm H x 730mm W

2. ‘2012-66’, 2012, mixed media on canvas, 945mm H x 840mm W

3. ‘Adoneus’ Bed (black-blue)’, 1977, mixed media on canvas gifted t the artist by Colin McCahon, 390mm H x 300mm W, 540mm H x 450mm W (frame)

4. ‘Untitled’, 1993, mixed media on paper, 110mm H x 155mm W, 375mm H x 275mm W (frame)

It was in California, in the late 1960s, that Alberto Garcia-Alvarez began making painted wooden constructions.Over the ...
02/06/2026

It was in California, in the late 1960s, that Alberto Garcia-Alvarez began making painted wooden constructions.

Over the years he has produced more than 100.

Modestly built and casually painted (but finely honed) he describes them as ‘Crossings’.

“The title“, he says, “refers to the intersection points of objects, or to ideas crossing each other. It also refers to the act of crossing: the crossing over an obstacle or a prejudice.”

An exhibition of Crossings was curated by Robert Leonard at City Gallery Wellington in 2015 and was selected from a larger show of constructions from an exhibition at TMG in 2014.

We are pleased to include three ‘crossings’ in our current show, one completed in 2022 (SLIDE 1) and two in 2026 (SLIDES 4 and 12).

The remaining slides show a selection of images from Alberto’s 2014 exhibition at our gallery space in Newmarket.

We hope you can visit ’nothing is finished while I am” before the exhibition closes this Saturday.

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Some photos from Alberto’s recent opening 🍷Thank you .co.nz for the capture 📸
30/05/2026

Some photos from Alberto’s recent opening 🍷

Thank you .co.nz for the capture 📸

In the current issue of the recently relaunched writer Dina Jezdic .interpretedd observes that “to write a preview of ...
28/05/2026

In the current issue of the recently relaunched writer Dina Jezdic .interpretedd observes that “to write a preview of [Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s] show is to confront the particularity of a practice that rejects the very idea of the preview.

No new body of work finished in preparation for exhibition.
No theme declared in advance.

Only this: 50 years in the same studio, sunk into the slope of a garden, light flooding in from high windows – and the continuous act of making that happens inside it.”

“All my life is here”, 98-year-old Alberto says, when she asks about the way a work from the 1970s might appear alongside something made last week.

“He means it structurally”, Jezdic explains.

“The experience of a life does not divide itself into periods, does not respect the historian’s desire for chronology, the collector’s desire for series, the critic’s desire for development. […] A canvas begun in one decade may be taken up again in another because the thinking it holds has returned – changed, deepened, made strange by distance.”

“[Garcia-Alvarez’s] paintings and constructions are not solved problems”, Jezdic suggests.

“Not objects to be judged against a standard of beauty or competence. They are, as he has written himself, moments of a life – “this moment or that moment years ago” – presented to a viewer who brings their own accumulated experience to meet them.
The encounter is always a crossing: his interior life and yours, finding each other somewhere in the paint.”

We hope you can visit the show.

Until next Saturday June 6th.

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ‘nothing is finished while I am’until 06 June DM for catalogue
23/05/2026

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ
‘nothing is finished while I am’
until 06 June
DM for catalogue

Thank you for joining us last night for Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’ “Nothing is finished until I am”.The artist was present!...
14/05/2026

Thank you for joining us last night for Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’ “Nothing is finished until I am”.

The artist was present! 💥

Thank you to photographers .co.nz and for these great memories ♥️

Until Sat 06 June
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Please join us this evening 🍷‘nothing is finished while I am’ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZDM for catalogueWebsite at Link in Bo
13/05/2026

Please join us this evening 🍷

‘nothing is finished while I am’
ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ

DM for catalogue

Website at Link in Bo

Please join us tomorrow evening from 5.30pm for the opening of “Nothing is finished until I am” - an exhibition of new (...
12/05/2026

Please join us tomorrow evening from 5.30pm for the opening of “Nothing is finished until I am” - an exhibition of new (and old) work by 98-year-old Alberto Garcia-Alvarez.

The artist may be present!

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