2024
Opening opens August 17, 2024, 6–9pm, one night only, a show of an empty gallery.
Organizer’s Statement
Openings are spaces and times to be filled or left empty, invitations to entry or escape. We have openings, and we go through openings. Openings are holes or opportunities.
Art openings are the parties that announce the beginning of an art show. On a Friday or Saturday night one can go to a bunch of openings ( tonight, also check out Martha’s, ICOSA, and Lydia Street—thanks for the listings Concept Animals ! ). Openings may blur together, but like Heraclitus’s river, we never step into the same one, twice.
Openings can be distinguished by who and what we see and talk to and about. Some people go to openings only for the people. Does an opening need the art ? Can it float on its own, a gas in a white cube ?
Northern–Southern numbers its exhibitions. Opening is 69 ( dude ). It is an opening an as a one-night exhibition. It is an invitation to possibility.
Opening is a beginning — a celebration of N-S’s upcoming Fall 2024 season. After tonight the space will be filled with art again, again, again, and again.
Thank you for your support and hope to see you at the next opening.
— Phillip Niemeyer