The debut Friends Fair will be at The Loren at Lady Bird Lake May 15-17.

Visit the Friends Fair website or read about it in Art News.

Friends Fair is organized by grayDUCK, Ivester Contemporary, Martha’s, McLennon Pen Co., and Northern-Southern (Friends of Galleries), the fair will occupy twelve suites over two floors of the art-filled hotel right on the Lady Bird Trail.

We’ll welcome 12.26 (Dallas, Los Angeles), Dutton (New York), Half Gallery (New York) Inman Gallery (Houston), and Megan Mulrooney Gallery (Los Angeles). Non-profit SAGE Studio will show in an eleventh suite and independent curator Taylor Danielle Davis will present work in the twelfth.

Stella Alesi
Michael Berryhill
Ash Duban
Evan Horn
Michelle Marchesseault
Mai Snow
Rachael Starbuck

For the debut Friends Fair, Northern–Southern presented a room withn a theme, the inevitable return of unstoppable life. More specifically, May in Central Texas. In the bathroom was a creek between the streets. In the main room: wild color, new leaves, odd stones, funny animals, and people doing their things.

Download a pdf zine with all the works here.

To inquire, email hello@northern-southern.com.

L Renée Núñez will be featured at a solo booth at NADA NY, 2025, in the TD Bank Curated Spotlight, a special section at NADA New York 2025 organized by Owen Duffy, Nancy C. Allen Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Asia Society Texas.

Núñez paints ignored and in-between spaces, the wilds between the concrete tames of Southwestern city life and the expanses of Southern Mexico. The forms do not conform, they haze and shift with ambiguous life.

Meet us at booth C220.

Email for a preview pdf: hello@northern-southern.com.

WILDFLOWERS

Amy Scofield
Carlos Carillo
Diego Miró–Rivera
Given McClure
Nick Woodall
Sarah Hirnisen
Sterling Allen
Tammy West
Yevgenia Davidoff

🌼 In the semi-public spaces near the running routes of West Austin is a group of site-specific outdoor, wild art. The show was installed for an opening on May 3, 2025. Ephemeral work, some remains.

🌼 Download a guide to the work [pdf]

Positioning Systems

Aimee Odum
Barry Stone
Kirsten Lofgren
Maya Kotsovolos
TJ Lemanski
Thira Rose
Thomas Cook
Trey Burns

organized by Rachel Eboh

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Positioning Systems, a group show featuring eight Artist Run Club members, looks at the multi-point perspectives and spatial orientations individuals encounter navigating landscapes or tracking routes in the digital age. Shown together, the works investigate how one’s relationship to the environment is affected or distorted by the simultaneous existence as a body with two feet on the ground, a pulsing dot on a grid, and the liminal space in-between.

The title of the exhibition refers to the navigation and cartography satellite systems such as GPS or WGS (Google Earth). Scaling back, Positioning Systems also includes anchor sites or grounding techniques that inform our locality – such as lingering rubble from past landmarks or intimate views from personal pathways. Together informing a comprehensive albeit disjointed vantage point that encompasses both physical and digital positions.

— Rachel Eboh

Positioning Systems ‘zine [pdf]

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Positioning Systems opened with a three show reception: Runners Art Club!

May 3, Saturday, 8-11am

artist talk

June 8, Sunday, 4pm
with TJ Lemanski, Thomas Cook, Maya Kotsovolos, Thomas Cook,and Rachel Eboh

closing with Artist Run Club

June 11, Wednesday
with TJ Lemanski, Thira Rose, Maya Kotsovolos, and Barry Stone

Runners Art Club was an opening event for a trio of connected shows by and for runner/artists at Northern-Southern, Goodluckhavefun, and in the spaces between.

Personal Records
at Goodluckhavefun

Kira McCool assembles a group of artistic check-ins, eclectic stories told by the routes we traverse. Featuring work by: Brian Dulaney, Drake Konow, Gerardo Cisneros, Justin Leal, Tim McCool, Kevin Muñoz, Marissa Dunagan, Phillip Niemeyer, and Preetal Shah..

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The Runners Art Club logo is by Henry Smith and was made with wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection.

Andrew Humke
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painting

Mac Benson
Alexander Boeschenstein
Anahita (Ani) Bradberry
Ted Carey
Sean J Patrick Carney
Lyman Hardy
Bucky Miller
Britt Mosley
Phillip Niemeyer
Sean Ripple
Tiffany Smith
Hannah Spector
Matt Steinke
Katherine Vaughn
Lisa B Woods
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instructions

Andrew Humke paints hypnotic disciplines in bright oils, on large unstretched canvases. Singular concepts are assembled from ancient motifs, a rococo brutalism. The arch, the shell, the flowering bush, sun, star and sky repeat and reverse in colors that float with light. The paintings’ margins are streaked with raucous warm-ups.

Accompanying the paintings is a group show of art instructions in the form of a zine. Freedom Routine compiles art scores by a group of mostly Austin-based artists working from or adjacent to a conceptualist tradition. The texts are recipes for manifesting art in life. Download a pdf.

Freedom Routine was organized by Phillip Niemeyer.

An Opening Reception was held, Saturday, March 22 6-8 pm. Andrew Humke and Tiffany Smith gave an artist talk on Sunday, April 6, 2025. The Artist Run Club visited Wednesday, April 9, 6:30am, and Andrew spoke.

Andrew Humke appears courtesy of Southway Studio, Marseille

Successive eras of Stella Alesi paintings on paper: protean, curious, and full of life in transformation.

Ch-ch-ch-changes closed on March 1, 2025. To request a checklist of work from the show, email hello@northern-southern.com.

Artist Talk: Thursday, Feb 2, 4pm
Artist Run Club: Wednesday, Feb 12, 6:30am

one-a-day for twelve days

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.

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last weekend!

visit
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Jan 2-4
2–6 pm

closing reception and artist talks
Saturday, January 4
3pm

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Let Loose

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.

Numinosity

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.

Off-site artworks

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. 

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Rachael Starbuck & Michael Muelhaupt

— meantime —

and
— on going on —

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.

Opening opens August 17, 2024, 6–9pm, one night only, a show of an empty gallery.

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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

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

13-23

Black and white art by a group of artists spanning the ten years of the gallery.

one more day:

Wednesday, November 1, 2-6pm, open hours.

Artist Run Club visits Wednesday morning, 6:30am

work by:

Adreon Henry
Amanda Julia Steinback
Arius Holifield
Brian Dulaney
Christos Pathiakis
Evan Horn
Fort Lonesome
Gregory Valentine
James Turner
Jesse Cline
Jimmy Luu
Kel Brown
Laura Lit
Lauren Moya Ford
Lisa Choinacky
Logan Larsen
Mai Snow
Matt Steinke
Mike Reddy
Naomi Schlinke
Paisley Blair
Phillip Edward
Rachael Starbuck
Rachel Freeman
Ryan McKerley
Sarah Fagan
Shawn Camp
Simon Walker
Tim McCool
Toto Miranda
Transmountain
Tyeschea West

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Katherine Vaughn performed October 30, 2023, 7pm.

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]

Emma Hadzi Antich
Jade Walker
Jason Stopa
Logan Larsen
Matthew Langland
Sarah Fagan
Tim Thompson

For Titles, seven artists show artworks with the books (plays, poems, novels, comics, zines, and records) that inform and inspire them.

Emma Hadzi Antich — The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov
Jade Walker — Ancient Flowers by Chika Sagawa
Jason Stopa — The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachaelard
Logan Larsen — The Rainbow Review
Matthew Langland — The Vault of Horror
Sarah Fagan — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Tim Thompson — Pink Moon by Nick Drake

Visit July 15–August 20
Thursday–Sunday*
2-6 pm

If you would like a PDF checklist of available work, email hello@northern-southern.com and we will send you one.

Jason Stopa appears courtesy of Morgan Lehman Gallery.

Titles is organized by Phillip Niemeyer — The Gift by Lewis Hyde. Thanks to Connor Downs, Bucky Miller, and Mikila Zaorski.