BATON
an additive show by relay
Brad Tucker
Adreon Henry
Dan Hurlbut
Ric Nelson
Emma Hadzi Antich
André Fuqua
Naomi Schlinke
Leon Alesi
Matt Steinke
Sev Coursen
Dawn Okoro
Vy Ngo
Transmountain
Tyeschea West
Jimmy Luu
James Turner
Stella Alesi
Emily Lee
Phillip Niemeyer
Rachel Freeman
& ...
Beginning July 2020, Northern–Southern gallery hosts an ever-evolving installation by a series of artists working in turn. BATON is a continuous installation by relay. Work has been added month-by-month. Some objects were moved around, but little left. New work is still being added.
BATON began last summer in the midst of an indefinite lock down. The artists mingled in the space, distanced by time. The show began sparse, like country land about to become a town. Large works spread out without concern for space. Now, a year in, the gallery is dense with overlapping intentions. Work adjusts, converses, and layers: a community.
Rebirth
2020, acrylic and oil on linen
over wall painting with shadows after Emily Lee
October 2020
Rebirth
(detail)
Rebirth and Release
installation view
October 2020
Release
2020, acrylic and oil on linen
over wall painting
October 2020
Center back: Stella Alesi
Front right: James Turner
October 2020
Quarter-Round Green Velvet Panel on Red Oak Base, Round Red Oak Table with Mirror Inlay, Plaster Building Blocks, “Tower” Painting, Pleated Rust Velveteen Drape
October 2020
Half-Round Gray Tufted Stool, Mahogany and Brass Snake, White Pillar Lamp, Quarter-Round Green Velvet Panel on Red Oak Base, Round RedOak Table with Mirror Inlay, Plaster Building Blocks, “Tower” Painting, Pleated Rust Velveteen Drape
October 2020
Half-Round Gray Tufted Stool, Mahogany and Brass Snake, White Pillar Lamp, Quarter-Round Green Velvet Panel on Red Oak Base, Round RedOak Table with Mirror Inlay, Plaster Building Blocks, “Tower” Painting, Pleated Rust Velveteen Drape, Black Leatherette Pillar Lamp
October 2020
Some mistake my kindness for weakness (detail)
photomontage and mixed media
October 2020
Some think we’re bouji (detail)
photomontage and mixed media
October 2020
October 2020
Stella Alesi, James Turner
Right:
Jimmy Luu
Swim Kit 1
October 2020
Swim Kit 1
25 risograph prints on copy paper, hand set grommets, vinyl decals
October 2020
Swim Kit 1
25 risograph prints on copy paper, hand set grommets, vinyl decals
October 2020
right: Stella Alesi
photo October 2020 by Leon Alesi
Rocks and Shadows
October 2020
Rock and Shadow
September 2020
Rock and Shadow
September 2020
Rock and Shadow
September 2020
Rocks and Shadows
September 2020
Rocks and Shadows
on a Pallet
2020
mixed media
#281 from the aftermath series
2020
oil on panel
another this and that
2020
wall painting
(left) Carter/Reddy
(right) Stella Alesi
Truth Time
2019
placed by Stella Alesi
(right) Rachel Freeman, en cage, cone and elsewhere ontop of Phillip Niemeyer, Transporter, 2020
YEAH, rearranged
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
Puppet (Frame)
2020
tracing paper, frame, plaster, blush, portrait of Jack, haze, joint compound, unfired painted clay, ceramic tag, hoops, latex, lights, yard sign, thread, kodak, pine, nails, oil paint, salt, latex insulation, magnets, mdf, holes, filters
Transporter
2020
wall painting
Blocks on on a plinth, a table game for future players
2019-20
Blocks on on a plinth, a table game for future players
2019-20
Hat Bot
2020
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Hat Bot on a plinth
2020
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YYYYYYYEEEEA
2009, 2020
AAAHH — Twoniverse — HHHHHHAAAE
2009, 2020
HHHHAAAEEEEY
2009, 2020
en cage, cone and elsewhere and açaí bowl installation view
açaí bowl
2018
phosphorescent acrylic, nail polish, gloss medium, spray paint, micron, copic sketch marker
%
2020
Latex and acrylic on wood panel
24x24 inches, hang any way
Half Twice
2019
Latex and acrylic on wood panel
24x24 inches, hang any way
Ceres, Texas
2020
Latex and acrylic on wood panel
24x24 inches, hang any way
Ceres, Texas, %, and Half Twice
selected and hung by Rachel Freeman
Twoniverse
2020
Latex and acrylic on wood panel
48x24 inches, hang any way
en cage, cone and elsewhere
2020
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ORGANIZER’S STATEMENT
The COVID pandemic presents an opportunity to expand our conceptions of art spaces and art shows.
We cannot responsibly host crowds, but Northern-Southern gallery is safe for a single artist, or two, masked and distanced. BATON is a group workshop for a single participant at a time.
The participants’ intentions and actions may pile on top of each other as months pass, lacquers of successive nows. The overall show—for most experienced only as documentation—could encompass the walls in every way they are and as they were. Northern-Southern is an art time-space.
The participants in BATON will be encouraged to experiment, to push the parameters of their practice. They may use the space to install work that want to see in a gallery context, or ignore “art” and just do things. They may hang the work of another artist. They can rearrange what was there previous, or make work that reacts to it or re-contextualizes it. Or all the above.
BATON will never be, it will continuously become, until we drop the baton at the end of our run.
—Phillip Niemeyer, July 2020