DICK FRIZZELL

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Preview Friday 23rd April from 5:30pm Opens Saturday 24th April 24th April - 19th May, 2010

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

1. DICK FRIZZELL, Red Haring VI (2010) screenprint on paper, edition of 100, paper (v x h): 810 x 605 mm, printed image (v x h): 505 x 520 mm

2. DICK FRIZZELL, Red Haring V (2007) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 795 x 605 mm, printed image (v x h): 498 x 520 mm

3. DICK FRIZZELL All Square in Love and War (2010), screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 560 x 755 mm, printed image (v x h): 285 x 225 mm

4. DICK FRIZZELL, Another Big Kiss (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 100, paper (v x h): 1200 x 810 mm, printed image (v x h): 700 x 700 mm

5. DICK FRIZZELL, Give it a Whirl (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 200, paper (v x h): 760 x 562 mm, printed image (v x h): 450 x 320 mm

6. DICK FRIZZELL, Rock On (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 200, paper (v x h): 762 x 562 mm, printed image (v x h): 450 x 340 mm

7. DICK FRIZZELL Side A / Side B (2009), screenprint on paper, edition of 200, paper (v x h): 562 x 762 mm, printed image (v x h): 350 x 600 mm

8. DICK FRIZZELL, Four Four Time (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 100, paper (v x h): 758 x 558 mm, printed image (v x h): 490 x 400 mm

9. DICK FRIZZELL, Overnight Success (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 150, paper (v x h): 765 x 562 mm, printed image (v x h): 429 x 334 mm

10. DICK FRIZZELL, Lisa's Afghans (2009) screenprint on paper, edition of 100, paper (v x h): 760 x 560 mm, printed image (v x h): 580 x 420 mm

11. DICK FRIZZELL, Sleeping Woman (2008) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 805 x 607 mm, printed image (v x h): 400 x 400 mm

12. DICK FRIZZELL, Reclining Woman (2006) diptych; screenprint on paper, edition of 100,

paper (v x h): 560 x 685 mm each sheet, printed image (v x h): 490 x 1310 mm overall

13. DICK FRIZZELL, Legerdemain IV (2008) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 765 x 560 mm, image (v x h): 475 x 397 mm

14. DICK FRIZZELL, Legerdemain III (2008) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 753 x 560 mm, image (v x h): 420 x 398 mm

15. DICK FRIZZELL, Legerdemain (2006) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 756 x 569 mm, image (v x h): 490 x 398 mm

16. DICK FRIZZELL, Architiki (2006) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 758 x 565 mm, image (v x h): 545 x 440 mm

17. DICK FRIZZELL, Danske Tiki (2005) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, paper (v x h): 898 x 747 mm, image (v x h): 840 x 540 mm

18. DICK FRIZZELL, Cutout Tiki (2005) screenprint on paper, edition of 80, frame (v x h x d): 1142 x 960 x 30 mm, image (v x h): 850 x 645 mm

19. DICK FRIZZELL, Good News (2007) screenprint on paper, edition of 100, paper (v x h): 795 x 596 mm, image (v x h): 615 x 540 mm

PRICELIST 1 DICK FRIZZELL, Red Haring VI (2010) edition of 100 2 DICK FRIZZELL, Red Haring V (2007) edition of 80 3 DICK FRIZZELL, All Square in Love and War (2010) edition of 80

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PRICELIST 16 DICK FRIZZELL, Architiki (2006) edition of 80 17 DICK FRIZZELL, Danske Tiki (2005) edition of 80 18 DICK FRIZZELL, Cutout Tiki (2005) edition of 80 19 DICK FRIZZELL, Good News (2007) edition of 100

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Chief amongst Dick Frizzell’s numerous attributes is his remarkable ability to move almost seamlessly from one style (mode of expression) to another. He has demonstrated again and again in an endlessly inventive career the capacity to deliver almost any subject matter – faux-naïve NZ landscapes, accurately rendered realist environments and architecture, figurative still-lifes, comic book characters, witty parodies of modernist abstraction and so on.

His background in advertising has informed his work and blurred the categories between the notionally commercial and ‘high art’ paradigms.

Frizzell also has an ability to identify the iconography of the ordinary and uses humour to animate the subject and narrative to include the viewer. In this way, his work comes to have a broad cultural and social vernacular which reaches from the inventions and characterisations of comics through the divisions of pop art to multiple parodies of formal abstraction and art-jokes on to reconfiguring the Maori motif of the tiki into numerous art styles or for example as overlays on top of the Four Square Man. There is a strong sense of nostalgia in his work, and the openly acknowledged sources evidence a real emotional attachment to the processes of memory and applied meaning.

This exhibition includes recent and important screenprints and lithographs.

Frizzell’s mastery of style reveals him ‘as a brash iconoclast who fears nothing and holds nothing sacred’. His virtuoso range of skills includes a remarkable ability to deliver objects, motifs and ‘captured moments’ with idiosyncratic character and graphic clarity.

DICK FRIZZELL b. 1943, lives Hawkes Bay

Reclining Woman (2006)

“In Dick Frizzell’s first solo exhibition of 1978 his paintings’ deadpan humour was fringed with a barely suppressed exuberance and delight. The paintings collided the pragmatics of an admans’ need for a compelling motif with the visceral pleasures of expressive modernist painting.

Like the best of his work between then and now, these images of gaudy fish tin labels and comic strip characters…conveyed the freshness and magic of a first encounter.”1 “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.”2 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. Recently, in his tiki paintings, Frizzell dared to take motifs from Maori art and use them in a playful yet provocative manner.” 3 Born in Auckland in 1943, he worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator and studied at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts between 1960 and 1963. Frizzell's exhibiting career spans more than twenty-five 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. Allan Smith, Dick Frizzell: Portrait of a Serious Artiste, The City Gallery, Wellington/Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1997 2. Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow, Contemporary New Zealand Art 2, 1999 3. Michael Dunn, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, 1996

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DICK FRIZZELL b. 1943, lives Hawkes Bay EDUCATION 1964

Ilam Art School, Canterbury, New Zealand

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (1986 -) 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002

2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

1996

1995 1994 1993

1992

1991 1990

1989

1987 1986

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 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Big Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Images for Lovers, Works on Paper Gallery, Auckland Lithographs, Muka Studio and Regent Hote, Aucklandl Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Janne Land Gallery, Wellington Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Heads On, Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 2008 2008 2006 2005 2004 2004 2001-2002 2001 1998

1997

1996 1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

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 Nzx 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 House Gallery, Dunedin Figurative Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Design Love Story, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin Visa Gold Award, New Gallery, Auckland 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 Visa Gold Award, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington 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 Wild West Show, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland Art and Organised Labour, Touring Show

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2010 1997

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

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