Successive eras of Stella Alesi paintings on paper: protean, curious, and full of life in transformation.
Visiting Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 2—6pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, Feb 2, 4pm
Artist Run Club: Wednesday, Feb 12, 6:30am
Bill McCullough
Brian Dulaney
Drew Liverman
Erin Miller
Katherine Vaughn
Logan Larsen
Maura Murnane
Mai Snow
Michelle Marchesseault
Phillip Niemeyer
For the holiday season we’ll release one print edition a day for twelve days, beginning December 8. On Thursday, the 19th, we had a party with all the prints.
🔵 1 – Dec 8 – Phillip Niemeyer, 2025 Icon Calendar
🔵 2 – Dec 9 – Logan Larsen, Reproduction of “The Judy Garland Club, Rainbow Review #15. London, 1996”
🔵 3 – Dec 10 – Drew Liverman, Petra on porch
🔵 4 – Dec 11 – Erin Miller, Tassel Alchemy
🔵 5 – Dec 12 – Maura Murnane, World Wide Distributors Catalog LCD Watches 26-03
🔵 6 – Dec 13 – Bill McCullough, Descending
🔵 7 – Dec 14 – Katherine Vaughn, i come to your house and do a 20 minute performance
🔵 8 – Dec 15 – Brian Dulaney, The Little Prints: Series 1
🔵 9 – Dec 16 – Mai Snow, Rose Sun print
🔵 10 – Dec 17 – Michelle Marchesseault, Postcards from Spain
🔵 11 – Dec 18 – Katherine Vaughn, i take you on a drive in my car and we listen to enya
🔵 12 – Dec 19 – Logan Larsen, Swanson Sugar Drawing – 1
Two entwined solo shows by Emma Hadzi Antich and Christos Pathiakis, in the gallery and outdoors.
closing reception and artist talks
Saturday, January 4
3pm
Emma Hadzi Antich paints living symbols: the woman, the mountain, the column, the hand in isolation. They are rendered icon-flat but warm, still but breathing. In her mountain-scapes, fabric, grass, and limbs billow soft against jagged rock. In a small, round portrait, a flower blooms from an open mouth on a tender neck. In each work, her last, bright brushstrokes create hotspots of light on rock, petal, and human figure. Hadzi Antich works from a home studio, surrounded by family, goats, and books. Her paintings are dispatches of introspection—vivid, cerebral, and sensual—made in reverence to nature and as a plea from the alienated.
Over the last year Christos Pathiakis photographed locations where people perceived a joining of worlds — liminal, sacred sites that inspire fear, wonder, and reverence. In Greece he explored caves on the slopes of Mt Parnassus, sanctuaries on the holy island of Delos, and mines on the Cycladic island of Serifos. He traveled to the Yucatán, into the wilds along the Ruta Puuc, to photograph unrestored Maya sites. The work was perilous and physically arduous. In Greece he descended rock slopes on a broken foot, while in Mexico he often required guides and machetes to hike miles into the jungle.
In an overgrown lot near a cul de sac off Springdale, Hadzi Antich buries a disembodied hand in a live animal cage trap trap, and bricks it in like the walled gardens of her painting. Deep in the Barton Creek Greenbelt, Pathiakis honors a place that shares a transformational presence.
Maps to each outside location will be available in the gallery.
with
Ben Heyer
Erin Miller
Evan McGraw
Katie Bullock
Rachael Starbuck & Michael Muelhaupt return to Austin and Northern-Southern for a collaborative show of space and sculpture: meantime.
Gathering materials from what they find around them, Starbuck & Muelhaupt transfigure objects to fit rhythmic lives. Their media includes the space and the air of the gallery, which they choreograph into currents with sets of household fans. Their art is porous, it seeps and breathes into our everyday world. They sculpt responsive bodies, containers alternately emptied and filled.
Accompanying meantime is a group show, on going on. Work by Ben Heyer, Erin Miller, Evan McGraw, and Katie Bullock. A collection of visual expanses and images like air and breath made by a group of artists that share an almost compulsive process, repetition/rituals. Selected and organized by Rachael Starbuck and Michael Muelhaupt, and Phillip Niemeyer, on going on shares space with meantime, as a beach is the sharing of land and sea.
New paintings of the body-less body by Mai Snow, their first solo show in Texas and at Northern-Southern.
Empty clothes stand on their own, filled with sharp scribbles. Toes and fingers have larger families. Socks repeat. Chairs wait. Clouds of shout outs array like beaches in oil pastels. Love in sharp oils. Poetry painting. Pain-killers.
Read a review of ‘Mai Snow’ by Meher Qazilbash in Glasstire.
Thursday–Sunday, 2–6pm or by appointment. The last full day will be Saturday, October 5.
Saturday, September 28, 8:00am
We’ll meet for coffee and art at 8am. At 8:30am we do a social 5k around Lady Bird. Mai will talk and maybe run with us.
Saturday, September 28, 2–4pm
Mai will hang out at the gallery and we’ll drink cold fizzy water.
Friday, October 4, 4–6pm
Mai will hang out at the gallery for happy hour and we’ll drink cold Lone Stars
Closing Reception and Poetry Reading
Sunday, October 6, 4–6pm
We’ll send the show off with Lone Stars and poetry. Mai will speak and introduce poets Hannah Spector, Sarah Matthes, and Miles Matis Uzzo.
Email and we’ll send you a checklist of works.
Opening opens August 17, 2024, 6–9pm, one night only, a show of an empty gallery.
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
Andrew Humke
Michelle Marchesseault
L. Renée Núñez
Emma Rossoff
Networks of mutual reliance and tenuous balance, everything depends on each other.
New painting and sculpture from Austin.
Visit: Thursday–Sunday, 2-6pm, last day is Friday, June 28
Opening: Saturday, May 18, 6-9pm
Mai Snow & Katherine Vaughn Performance: Sunday, May 26, 4pm
Organizer’s Talks with Phillip Niemeyer: Friday, May 31, 5pm and Sunday, June 2, 3pm
Artist Run Club: Wednesday, June 12, 6:30am
Last-Chance Reception and Artist Talks:
Saturday, June 29, 11am–1pm
talks with Andrew, Michelle, Renée, and Emma, moderated by Phillip
Andrew Humke — painter originally from Ohio. New to Austin, he is often in Marseille, France, where he is represented by Southway Studio. He contributes an oil on large canvas—a paradox of empty bowls filling each other.
Michelle Marchesseault — painter originally from Indiana, working between Austin and New York. She most recently showed her Pompeii paintings at NADA Miami 2023. In the show are three recent paintings: a quartet of queer friends unite on a rural walk, family history as knick knacks on a wavy shelf, and a joyful apotheosis of linked breath and pasta.
L. Renée Núñez — indigenous painter and dancer, working in Lago Vista. This is her first show with Northern-Southern. She paints two landscapes each stretched on the wall. Each sensuously depicts a symbiotic network of life without people.
Emma Rossoff — sculptor and a recent graduate from the UT MFA program with a BA from Columbia. Originally from New York, she is working in Austin. Her most recent shows were at Shed~Shows and the Cage Match at Museum of Human Achievement. Northern-Southern is excited to show a suite of new sculptures: disembodied hands grip and caress each other in surreal and often funny oppositions and conflations.
interdependence is organized by Phillip Niemeyer.
Email and we’ll send you a checklist of works.
Field Patterns and Test Recordings is a series of unscripted color photographs by Bill McCullough, spanning twelve years, 2008 to 2020.
March 24—April 28, 2024
Visiting hours Thursday–Sunday, 2-6pm
Artist Run Club, Wednesday, April 3, 6:30am.
Bill McCullough performs with Barry Stone & Mountains in Stars, Thursday, April 11, 4pm, part of Fusebox 2024.
Artist Talk and Happy Hour, Sunday, April 21, 4-6pm.
Closing Reception with performance by Knife in the Water, Sunday, April 28, 4-6pm.
Shot in bars, homes, subways, streets, and dances, these are not impersonal street photographs, McCullough has been allowed to each shoot by smile or nod. His camera is never hidden. Not photojournalism, McCullough keeps faith with the people he photographs. The candid details divulge nothing.
Before photography, McCullough was, and still is, a pedal steel player. The images have a music. McCullough uses illumination like recording studio microphones, finding or positioning light to balance layers of a composition like sounds in a room. Light is listening. The photos are complex with color harmonies, each realized in a shutter click akin to a clear note in the space between beats.
In the gallery McCullough arranges the prints as intimate geometries. Sequence and interplay between the photos suggest narrative patterns and under-stories, human truths beneath the surface of consciousness.
A review by Meher Qazilbash at Glasstire
Email to request a checklist of available prints.
Bill McCullough is a self taught, American photographer based in Austin, Texas. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, New York Times Lens Blog, New Yorker Magazine, New York Magazine,National Geographic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Rangefinder Magazine, Spot (Houston Center of Photography), Photonews in Germany, Lensculture, Photo District News, and other publications.
In 2008, his work was purchased for the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in 2011 for the Portland Art Museum. His solo exhibitions include shows at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, and SRO gallery at Texas Tech University. He has also participated in several group shows in the U.S., France, China, Russia, Malaysia, and Czech Republic.
He has won several awards including being chosen as a Fotofest Discovery in 2012, First place at the International Festival of Photography Photovisa IV in Krasnodar, Russia in 2012.
McCullough plays pedal steel as part of Knife in the Water, the beloved Austin dark-wave country combo.
Northern–Southern presents a suite of new paintings by Michelle Marchesseault, an explication on apocalypse and its souvenirs.
A pleasure city topples at the edge of a deluge. An exalted aura is crowned in laurels of pasta. A shelf of novelties swelters under pendulous sacks of full oranges. A conspirator in a neo-Roman moment is spied from above. Visions of release summon themselves, warm and shimmering.
Visit us at Booth D304.
Email hello@northern-southern.com if you would like a preview, and we’ll send you one.
Deep quiets made solid and real. Zoo-like geometries breathe—beings equally shape and spirit.
Lit works alone and without computers. The work in Others she patiently built over two years: skeletons of wood, muscle of foam, tissue of paper clay. The forms are painted with acrylic and oil, adorned with feather-feelers of plastic or scales of dyed resin. Some sculptures are the size of rabbits. Others loom like growing trees, or coil, undulating with color.
Not to be missed.
November 12–December 17, 2023
Lauren Moya Ford
Evan Horn
Lauren Moya Ford guides watery ink fields into candid invocations of memory, spirit, womanhood, and the body.
Evan Horn sculpts with clay dug from Texas riverbeds. Hand-shaped ceramic forms twist like vessels imitating liquids.
Ancient springs still flow.
Read Caroline Frost’s review of The Source in Glasstire (link).
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Performance
Headfull of Bees (aka Mikki Gibson)
Sunday, October 15, 4pm
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For a checklist of available works, email (hello@northern-southern.com).
Amy Scofield
Ann Armstrong
Ash Duban
Christos Pathiakis
Giampiero Selvaggio
Given McClure
Hannah Spector
Jesse Cline
Leon Alesi
Phillip Niemeyer
Rachael Starbuck
Sterling Allen
Tammy West
Ted Carey
FROM revisits Northern–Southern’s pandemic outdoor exhibitions continuing where TOOO left off now that the pandemic has been declared over.
What does this wild art mean now, in a New Austin too quick for memory?
Artwork will be dispersed outside across the city of Austin. Inside the gallery connected work is arrayed as a map of the City.
VISIT
Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 2-6pm, June 10-25th.
Sign up to have a pdf map of the sites emailed to you:
UPCOMING EVENTS
Artist Run Club FROM Run: Mueller
Friday, June 16
6:45am—meet at the Giant Spider Sculpture
7 am—run
A casual 5k to see work by Hannah Spector in Cherrywood and Phillip Niemeyer in Seabrook. We’ll meet at the Giant Spider Sculpture at in Mueller off Berkman near Manor. There should be plentiful and free street parking. Phillip will be on the run and will talk about the work.
Artist Happy Hour:
Tammy West & Amy Scofield
Friday, June 16
4pm at Northern-Southern
A talk with two prolific wild artists, both based in Austin. Amy and Tammy each make art constantly as they roam, from the things and in the places they encounter. They will talk and visit.
Artist Walk with Christos Pathiakis
Saturday, June 17
10am meet at the Spyglass Trailhead of Barton Creek
Christos will lead us on a tour to his installation: seven lantern slide portals in the banks of the creek. Cold drinks and ice coffee served from a cooler. We’ll meet at 10am, and walk to the site at 10:30am.
Artist Happy Hour:
Rachael Starbuck, Jesse Cline, Hannah Spector, & Christos Pathiakis
Saturday, June 17
4pm at Northern-Southern
Rachael and Jesse are two of the three founders of Partial Shade, organizing wild, outdoor art, pre-pandemic and now. Hannah Spector, a conceptual artist, has a knack for searing a moment with an image-action. Christos Pathiakis shows underground tunnel installations internationally. They will talk about their work and whatever else.
Artist Run Club FROM Run: Highland
Tuesday, June 20
6:45am–meet at Reznicek Fields, off St. Johns near North Lamar
7 am—run
We’ll run the Highland and Skyview neighborhoods to see work by Sterling Allen and Jesse Cline. Sterling will run with us and talk about the work.
Artist Run Club FROM Run: Govalle Park
Friday, June 23
6:45am—meet at Govalle Park
7 am—run
We’ll run the Walnut Creek Trail to see work by Amy Scofield and Given McClure. Given will run with us and talk about the work.
Art x Bike:
12-mile ride to FROM sites led by Ash Duban
Thursday, June 22
7am meet at Northern–Southern
Ash will lead us on a mellow 12ish mile ride around Austin to see a lion’s share of the FROM sites. We’ll meet at 7am at Northern–Southern, ride at 7:30am.
Tillery Tree Tour led by Ann Armstrong
Saturday, June 24
8am at Flitch Coffee
Ann will take us on a Tree tour of the incredibly diverse trees living under the E. 7th St. Bridge at Tillery. Closed toe shoes and bug spray recommended. We’ll meet at 8am and walk at 8:30am.
Closing Reception
Sunday, June 25
4–6pm
The NADA New York city art fair is from May 18-21 at 548 West 22nd, near 11th Avenue, a block from the Highline.
We’ll be on the 2nd floor, P22, with new paintings by Michelle Marchesseault and Christine Heindl, and woven sculpture by Donya Stockton.
Prem Krishnamurthy‘s Department of Transformation is an endless work[as-play]shop. It will be in Austin for five days as part of Fusebox 2023, April 12-17.
What is the transformative potential of art? How can art & design both give and take? How can art & design create space for many voices?
Sign up at fuseboxfestival.com
◐ Opening Night Talk – Wednesday evening at the Carver
◐ Generosity – Thursday lunch at Kinda Tropical
◐ Juxtaposition – Friday afternoon at Northern-Southern and the Lady Bird Lake Trail
◐ Bumpiness – Saturday night at Ani’s Day and Night
◐ Cook-out – Sunday day at Föda
hosted by Föda and Northern-Southern
Twists and Riverscapes. Picnics in ancient places. Memories tumbled with magic. Vulnerable practices, explosions of sunlight. Change and comfort.
Green Eyes are new paintings by Michelle Marchesseault, her second solo show with Northern–Southern.
Visiting hours Thursday to Sunday, 2-6 pm.
Special events to be announced.
Keyheira Keys
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Cranky Granny's
Kicking It ATX
RDC World
Hera Rum
“Running a business, particularly a small business takes creativity that is shown in the product, the story, and the people behind it. The first KBDB is a tribute to the art of the entrepreneur. A retail as art exhibit that showcases Austin-based businesses and highlights black culture. It blends the lines of art and consumerism and begs the question of art and how we define it for ourselves.
“In the midst of SXSW, one of the most popular times of the year for the city, we want to pay homage to that creative business owner and allow them a space to share their art with those in town.”
— Keyheira Keys
Katherine Vaughn & Ryan McKerley
Woo Nerk is a scored duet performance for dance and ceramics.
Katherine Vaughn & Ryan McKerley make new work before the audience at the moment of exhibition. They collide and integrate.
Woo Nerk brings shape from earth and body. It is a celebration of creation at its instance.
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Saturday Performance, March 4
8pm
complimentary cocktails by Phillip Niemeyer
limited seating
PURCHASE TICKETS
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Saturday Rehearsal Matinee, March 4
3pm
free
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Sunday Matinee, March 5
4pm
free
Katherine Vaughn is a dancer and performance artist. Ryan McKerley is a potter. They are friends and former roommates.
Alyssa Taylor Wendt
Charles Degeyter
Christos Pathiakis
Emma Hadzi Antich
Jaime Zuverza
GOING DOWN delves passage to counter places and underworlds. In painting, photography, sculpture, taxidermy, and games the artists seek to rebalance the spirit and the flesh; to synthesize myth and experience.
an art show about hell holes
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press:
Of Portals and Peepholes: Northern-Southern’s ‘Going Down’ — Barbara Purcell for Glasstire
Photos by Tyeschea West
Northern-Southern’s first art fair. Laura Lit at NADA Miami. Email if you would like a preview, and we’ll send you one.
Virginia Fleck fills the gallery with shimmers of sound and light, strings of tens of thousands of aluminum can tabs. From salvage and discard, Fleck weaves a tour de force of serenity, wonder, and peace.
photos by Tyeschea West:
SHIMMER opened 11-11 on 11:11 am.