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
Visit: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 2–6pm
Closed Thanksgiving Thursday, but open the rest of the holiday weekend!
“Others” installation view — photo by Tyeschea West
September 15–October 15
2023
Evan Horn
Lauren Moya Ford
Evan Horn sculpts with clay dug from Texas riverbeds. Hand-shaped ceramic forms twist like vessels imitating liquids.
Lauren Moya Ford guides watery ink fields into candid invocations of memory, spirit, womanhood, and the body.
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.
Tyeschea West was one of the principle photographers of Where is Here, photographic portraits of the people of East Austin, ages 0-100.
For Drawing Conclusions, West expands her palette. Vivacious layers of painting and photography overlay on translucent sheets. Photo-like images defy photography, each angle of viewing reveals a new way to see a human face. The title of each piece is a statement made by the real or imagined subject.
“I have to remember, I’m more than enough, even if most of society has been brainwashed into believing differently”, composite image showing one angle of the original.“I have to remember, I’m more than enough, even if most of society has been brainwashed into believing differently”“Where there is peace, happiness always follows”
Mar 25–Apr 30
2022
Rachael Starbuck‘s work imagines touch and its absence. Ceramic pots bulge like bags with soil. Brass rods lithely support the stems of living plants. The plants, nurtured by Starbuck, are descended from cuttings from her childhood home in Florida. Hand-sized and pit-fired ceramic “handholds” echo the feel of Starbuck’s holding hands as if they were yours.
Michael Muelhaupt sculptures are functional furniture. With some, he Frankensteins surplus furniture parts into witty pastiches, like a ’00s Droog designer. Other pieces lovingly tease modernism, upholstering pirated classics with white socks or Starbuck’s father’s old leather belts. Gentle startles, the sculptures are comfortable in unexpected ways.
Jesse Cline‘s sculptures are puzzles as formal meditations. Tactile, oblique, and hypnotic, the pieces are answers without questions.
FITTING is Texas late-Covid, an earth-toned punk. Subversive by being kind, gentle, crafted, warm, life-scale. Their hands make homes.
2/2 (“Two Over Two”) opened at the beginning of Pisces Season: 2-22-22 and closes on the day that would be 2-29 ( aka March 1).
Every day at 2:22 pm Phillip Niemeyer re-hung the show, often with Katherine Vaughn.
Friday, 2-25
2:22 pm — art is rearranged
hosted by Mark Fagan
Saturday, 2-26
2:22 pm — art is rearranged with dancer Katherine Vaughn
hosted by Beth Nottingham
Sunday, 2-27
2:22 pm — art is rearranged with dancer Katherine Vaughn
hosted by Phillip Niemeyer
Monday, 2-28
2:22 pm — art is rearranged and photographed by artist Amanda Julia Steinback. Those present could be subjects of the photos, as well.
hosted by Amanda Julia Steinback
Tuesday, 3-1
2:22 pm — art is rearranged for the last time.
4:44 pm — closing happy hour
hosted by Amanda Julia Steinback
Wednesday, 3-2
Artist Run Club Runception
6:30 am — art, one last time, with talk through by Phillip Niemeyer
7:00 am — Town (Ladybird) Lake Run
coffee and bananas
Katherine Vaughn & Phillip Niemeyer hanging 2/2 at 2:22, 2-24. Video grab by Stella Alesi%, 2019, acrylic on wood panel, 24×24 inches, hang any wayEmma Hadzi Antich, Eye, 2021, acrylic and metal-leaf or gold leaf on a rock from Mont Sainte-Odile
