Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

After class on Friday, a group of us decided to head down to the free art gallery that just opened up in Auckland. My host brother works in the cafe there so Kathryn, Corinne, and I were looking to surprise him as well. The top floor of the art gallery was the contemporary art section, so basically we had no idea what was going on. There were holes in the walls and a wheel barrow on the ground, so I assumed it was under construction... guess it went a little far over my head. After we had the art majors of the group try, and consequently fail, to explain to us what was going on, we decided to head to another section of the building. We moved into the native art and the contemporary art exhibits of the museum, which were amazing.

Here is the "Flower Chandelier" in the atrium of the gallery.
The flowers open and close.

("I open at the close")

 Me (with all my friends) in front of the gallery

A photo of a photo of mudboils (awesome!!)

 Contemporary painting of a maori face

 Contemporary painting of a sunset

 Pacific face carving in wood

  Famous "LOVE" silkscreen from the 60's

 I just thought this looked cool with my reflection.. ha

 Lucia, rachel, and me on the floor inside the mirror cube

Another mirror cube shot
(Note: my beaut finger in the top left! woohoo!)

The Phantom Canoe: The Legend of Lake Tarawera

Beautiful painting of Milford Sound

Famous painting of the Maori's journey to New Zealand

(which isn't actually how it happened... at all)

Detail of painting (the starving Maori seeing land for the first time)

Last but not least, another classic picture of Lara.

Lara's new boyfriend