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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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).

Press Release [pdf]

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:

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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 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

NADA New York City 2023

548 West 22nd
2nd Floor
P22

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

Department of Transformation

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

Michelle Marchesseault

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.