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.
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 1, 6-8pm
Artist Run Club: Wednesday, September 4, 6:30am
Visiting Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 2-6pm, beginning September 5, or by appointment
Mai Snow Piece of Electricity, 2024 oil on canvas 36 x 36 inchesMai Snow in their studio, summer 2024
Mai Snow is a trans nonbinary, immigrant from Polevskoy, Russia, who lives and makes art between Austin and Valentine, a rural Texas town near Big Bend. Snow received their MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2020 and their BFA from Maine College of Art in 2013. They are the co-creator of Shed~Shows, a DIY art garage in Austin.
Saturday, August 17, 6-9pm
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
May 18–Jun 28
2024
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.
Michelle Marchesseault, Road to Lordville, 2023, vinyl paint on linen, 28 x 32 inchesinstallation view: painting by Andrew Humke, sculpture by Emma Rossoff. Photo by Alexander Boeschenstein
March 23–April 28
2024
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.
Night Walk archival pigment print 22×33 in, edition 4 17×25.5 in, edition 4Blue Sky archival pigment print 30.7×46 in, edition 4 22×33 in, edition 4 17×25.5 in, edition 4
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.
NADA Miami
Dec 5–9, 2023
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.
Victory, 2023, vinyl paint on linen, 42¼ x 32 inches
Nov 12 – Dec 17
2023
opens Sunday, November 12
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
“Others” installation view — photo by Tyeschea West
September 15–October 15
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.
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.
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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 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
Christos Pathiakis, installation in the bank of Barton Creek, 2021, 2023
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.
Tuesday, Mar 14
2–6 pm
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
Mar 4-5
2023
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.
Jan 20–Feb 19
2023
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.
Northern-Southern’s first art fair. Laura Lit at NADA Miami. Email if you would like a preview, and we’ll send you one.
Laura Lit, NADA booth, in the center: “Crumbcatcher”, 2022, wood, foam, paper, cardboard, paperclay, resin, acrylic, oil, 5’x4’x6″
Nov 11–Dec 18
2022
Virginia Fleck, Moth, 2022, post consumer can-tabs, safety pins, woven backing mounted on wooden substrate, 38” x 76” x 2”
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.
New art by Brad Tucker: cheerfully complex, savvy, optimistic, funny, reflective, and beautiful. It no longer matters what they are; they resemble painting-sculptures.
Transmountain design is italo-modern by way of El Paso. They embed critical reflections into luxurious forms, using material as grammar.
Drew Liverman’s new paintings are immediate and oddly refined. Thin layers of summer-intense color soak into the canvas, or float above it. The compositions breathe with yin, and sear with eye-burn emotion and thought.
The subject matter: hot doom, the joys of love, bike rides, Olaf from Frozen, Goya’s covens, and scraps of what could be something for a place to live, for a time.
Introspective, with a funny gloom, these are paintings for an infinite summer.’
Momo
Michael W. Hall
Michelle Marchesseault
Evan Horn
spirit forms, continuous and ever-changing & describes Alesi’s art and practice: flowing always to new forms and new reasons. Alesi works in a series:, each an era in a moment, marking the emotional time of the making. They seldom revisit a series. Alesi moves to the next one, and the next, and the next. And, and, and.
a solo show as a community & is a Stella Alesi solo show as a community. Alesi invited four artists to contribute—friends and those they admire from afar. All searching abstractionists, seeking to make a spirit material. Each artist balances rigor with freedom, finding the eternal in the moment of making: Momo, Michelle Marchesseault, Michael W. Hall, and Evan Horn.
Matt Steinke‘s second solo show at Northern-Southern, un•verb defies the illusion of still life. Robotic musical objects chant and chat with each other in an aspirational din.
Matt Steinke’s work is—in turns and all-at-once—music, robotics, sculpture, animation, instrument building, puppetry, and computer programing. Steinke gives objects voice and identity. Mechanical sound sculptures mimic the behaviors and personalities of animals, people, plants, and machines. The objects discourse, chant, and interact in group ruminations on consumerism, morality, transcendence, ecology, health, and neurodiversity.
