Between Fields and What Isn't:
A Decade Inside No Place

No Place Gallery is pleased to present Between a Field and What Isn’ t: A Decade Inside No Place a milestone exhibition marking ten years of programming, experimentation, and sustained commitment to artists and ideas that resist easy categorization. Rather than offering a retrospective in the conventional sense, the exhibition functions as a critical pause; an accounting of what it has meant to build, maintain, and defend an artist-centered space over the course of a decade.

Founded in 2016, No Place Gallery emerged from a need rather than a plan. Operating across multiple locations and formats before settling into its current downtown home, the gallery has consistently worked in proximity to uncertainty – economic, spatial, and institutional. The program has prioritized artists working at the edges of form and visibility, with a particular emphasis on practices rooted in Ohio and the broader Midwest, while remaining in active dialogue with national and international contexts.

Between a Field and What Isn’ t traces this history through works, documents, gestures, and new commissions that reflect the gallery’s shifting footprint and evolving relationships. The exhibition is structured less as a chronology and more as an index, mapping the tensions between place and displacement, permanence and improvisation, access and refusal that have shaped No Place’s trajectory.

The title gestures toward a sustained state of in-betweenness, a gallery grounded in a specific city and community yet resistant to fixed identity or scale. Over the past decade, No Place has operated as both a site and a method, one defined as much by what it enables as by what it declines to become.

The exhibition will take place across Beeler Gallery and No Place Gallery, inaugurating a series of off-site events throughout Columbus this year, activating the city as both context and collaborator. Public programming will include performances, conversations, and printed matter

that extend the exhibition’s questions beyond the gallery space; foregrounding process, care, and collective presence.

Between a Field and What Isn’ t : A Decade Inside No Place is not a celebration of longevity for its own sake. It is an acknowledgment of risk, labor, and persistence as well as a reflection on what it takes to sustain an independent, artist-driven space amid rapidly shifting cultural, political, and urban conditions.