Can’t find too many details on this show, but Matt Arbuckles work is fantastic, and he’s been kicking around the NZ scene for a while now. We found this from 2009 when he was featured on Red Bulls Creative Spaces as a description of his work:

“Matt Arbuckle is an up-and-coming young Auckland artist who after just finishing his degree has had the opportunity to show off his work throughout New Zealand including exhibitions in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. His paintings take the appearance of objects that are wrestled with, or perhaps even beaten into submission. His images go through radical transformations as they are meticulously constructed and deconstructed, with what remains in the finished work, a lucid tension of these various transformations at their most poignant. 

A neo-expressionistic painting style is undermined by the idiocy of the cartoon figures present, especially given the almost tragic emotions they seem to express … ”

Who: Matt Arbuckle
What: Periscope Dots solo show
Where: Ninety Gallery, upper deck – 90 Wellesley Street, Auckland, NZ
When: Show opens tonight, 6pm til late – not sure how long it runs for but we’d say a few weeks …

Check out Matts work on his tumblr site – and if anyone else has more details on it, send them through …