Team Lump

January 20, 2024

Slump at Atlanta Contemporary

LUMP presents SLUMP at ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY January 25, 2024 – March 24, 2024 An informal conversation between artist Jerstin Crosby and artist/LabSpace gallery co-director Julie Torres about her painting titledSlump led to a group exhibition at LUMP in September 2023. The concept, inspired by Torres’ approach to painting, focused on a broadly shared, but rarely acknowledged, mood through artworks that flop, clump, sag, dangle, droop, go limp, sprawl, loaf, slouch or fall flat. April Childers Amanda Barr Brandon Boan Bill Thelen Conner Calhoun Celia Gray Drawing Room Fred Smith Jasmine Best Jerstin Crosby Julia Gartrell Julie Torres Kathryn Desplanque Maria Britton Leif Zikade Raymond Padron Skully Gustafson Tonya Solley Thornton Tory Wright More info: https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/lump
January 20, 2024

Conner Calhoun, Like a fog holds the light

LUMP is proud to present the solo exhibition of Conner Calhoun –  Like a Fog Holds the Light, a presentation of new paintings and drawings. Spanning many different themes and ideas Conner’s work mostly uses the self as a means to explore the psychological interior. Pushing the figure beyond its physical limits, setting it out on symbolic tasks, and contorting it into labyrinthine knots, ambiguous narratives unfurl, exploring the complex psychologies of recovery, grief, longing and desperation with humor and irreverence as a retainer of hope. In newer paintings, the self turns a corner, enters another room and there’s a darkness that is as abrupt as relapse. The walls feel like shrouds that are moving, gently carrying gradients of light from one corner to the next, it feels oceanic, or like a crystal moving through a space that has a […]
December 1, 2023

Presenting: a live soundtrack to Agnieszka Holland’s Total Eclipse

Presenting: a live soundtrack to Agnieszka Holland’s Total Eclipse Saturday December 16 Doors at 7pm, Film at 7:30pm Erotic, dramatic, and steeped in absinthe… this cinematic gem is based on the life of the poet and pre-punk, Arthur Rimbaud who changed the face of poetry forever. Written directly from letters and poems exchanged between Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, this film gives a historically accurate depiction of their torrential romance and creative ambitions. This showing of Total Eclipse will be accompanied by a live, original soundtrack performed by avant-garde musicians hailing from all corners of North Carolina. Featuring the sounds of: Brief Being (Greenville River), Chanelle Allesandre (Garner Meadow), Glyn Maier (Pisgah Forest), and Fossilized Wilderness (Cedar Village). With an introduction and reading from local poet: Marta Núñez-Pouzols. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio & David Thewlis. 111 minutes. Rated R.
December 1, 2023

Small School Workshop: Travis Neel

Decentering the Human How can we develop an arts practice that contributes to the mutual flourishing of both the human and more-than-human? Using plant-based artistic practices as a point of departure, we will critically analyze the relationship of plants and people. In doing so, we will explore how art, scientific materialism and traditional ecological knowledge frame our understanding of nature. This workshop will help you understand the connections between the social, ecological and cultural issues in your creative practice. 4-530pm Friday, December 8 at Lump Erin Charpentier and Travis Neel work at the intersection of socially engaged art and urban ecology. Collaboratively they utilize art as a framework to understand the keystone role that humans play in our landscapes. Currently, their work centers the Honey Mesquite—the charismatic, thorny and creative protagonist of the Llano Estacado’s ecological theater. In an attempt […]
December 1, 2023

LUMP Benefit 2023

Join us also this Friday, December 1st, 6-10pm for a LUMP BENEFIT !!!  Come get first dibs on affordable artwork by artists in the Lump sphere both locally and beyond.  There will be food, drinks and music all evening.  Artwork that remains unsold will stay up on Saturday & Sunday, 1-5pm and will continue to be available for purchase.  We look forward to seeing you there.  Thank you in advance for your support. *note from Bill Thelen below: “Bill Thelen here. I just wanted to let y’all know I’ve signed on to direct Lump for the year 2024 in hopes to fully realize Lump as a volunteer-based, artist-run space into the future. Lump has pretty much been this all along since our past directors (Kelly, April and George) were never paid a living wage. Right now it costs around $2,000 […]
October 17, 2023

Cave Homo + Drawing Room After Party

American Standard After Party Saturday, October 21, 9pm Join us!  If the gate is down, enter through the back.  Music by Orchid Dealer, Cornelius Von Strafin III, Wetness, Pushups, Mike Geary, Charlie Hearon. Co-hosted by Drawing Room and Cave Homo.
October 17, 2023

American Standard

American Standard Opening Saturday 10/21, 6-8pm 10/21-11/26, Sat-Sun 1- 5pm Luke Kempton Williams (b.1983), a multi disciplinary artist and publisher based in New York joins us at Lump for his first solo show: American Standard. Through painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video, Luke’s work confronts the hallucinations thrown up by the political and economic landscape of a sick and dying superpower as it descends into darkness. The pieces address economic disparities, violence, paranoia, decay of infrastructure, homophobia and general malaise created by corporate welfare and increasing tensions between working class citizens in a country previously thought of at times as a global beacon of hope. Williams employs experimentation of common objects, turning them potent and poignant, reaching out to the viewer provoking introspection, as well as putting them in the position of an inactive observer of our nation’s maladies.  Luke […]
August 28, 2023

SLUMP

SLUMP is on view at LUMP from September 1st – October 8th, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday September 1st from 6-9pm. SLUMP is a group exhibition that came about through an informal online and IRL conversation between Jerstin Crosby and New York-based artist and LabSpace gallery co-director Julie Torres, about her paintings. The concept of a group show emerged and grew into an exhibition featuring works that flop, clump, sag, dangle, droop, go limp, sprawl, loaf, slouch or fall flat. While many artists are based in the triangle they are joined by others based in the Bay area, Tennesse, Georgia, New York and Colorado. Exhibiting artists include: Amanda Barr April Childers Bill Thelen Brandon Boan Celia Gray Conner Calhoun Ellen Letcher Fred Smith Jasmine Best Jessica Langley Julia Gartrell Julie Torres Maria Britton Nico Smith Rachel Bernstein Raymond […]
July 4, 2023

Discourse and Dialogue

Discourse and Dialogue: “9.5 Theses on Art and Class” Wednesday July 12th 7 – 8:30 pm On the evening of July 12th, LUMP will host Discourse and Dialogue, a roving monthly in-depth discussion about artwork, philosophies and the art world at large, organized by artist Jean Gray Moh. Anyone is welcome to join in on the conversation at any time. The focus of this discussion will be “9.5 Theses on Art and Class” a 2013 essay written by art critic Ben Davis, and we will be joined by Kathryn Desplanque along with Jean Gray Moh. This essay reframes the dynamics of the art world, especially the relationship between artists and the art market, in Marxist terms through class analysis. Unafraid to challenge art world assumptions and posturing, 9.5 Theses invites artists, art organizers, and art administrators to reconsider whether our actions […]
July 4, 2023

Open Source Group Exhibition

OPEN SOURCE, group exhibition Artists: Freddie Bell, Sterling Bowen, Natalia Torres del Valle, Jason Lord, Peter Marin, Jean Gray Mohs, Cindy Morefield, Carson Whitmore Open source, in the world of software code (the hidden structure of much of the world as we view it), is source material that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Open source is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration.  At our current point in the history of making Art, there is also a decentralized framework within which abstract artwork can be and is made. No single artist or group owns the source of meaning for this modality, and a wide range of collaborations with and utilizations of the elements developed out of the historical canon is possible, as well as the incorporation of content and materials from outside that world. […]
May 29, 2023

SYZYGY Art Box

SYZYGY Art Box (A syzygy – SIZ-ə-jee – is an alignment of planets and/or stars.) Eleven NC-based artists are contributing work to a limited edition of 40 portfolio boxes.  Along with Annie Blazejack & Geddes Levenson (the creators of the portfolio), a total of eleven artists will be showing work on the other side of Lump this month: Jonh Blanco, Aliyah Bonnette, Alexandria Clay, Jerstin Crosby, King Nobuyoshi Godwin, Clarence Heyward, Pete Sack, Shelley Smith, Yuko Taylor, Bill Thelen). It’s an instant art collection! Each 22” x 15” box has 11 artworks in it, one from each participating artist. Thirty boxes are for sale for $1,300 each. To reserve your Art Box, just email [email protected] or DM @annieandgeddes on Instagram. SYZYGY Portfolio on Instagram HERE
May 29, 2023

Small School Artist Talks + Workshop

Thursday June 8 Erik Brandt: Ficciones Typografika Artist talk  (registration) 6pm Saturday June 10, Workshop with Erik Brandt  (registration) 9-11am Thursday June 22 Don Crow: The Spaces Between Two Things (registration) 6-7pm Friday June 23 5-6pm: Conversation between Don Crow and Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson about their current exhibition (registration) 5-6pm Small School is an art-based, alternative education platform.  Currently Small School is serving Raleigh by providing opportunities to directly engage with prominent national and international visiting artists through artist talks and small group workshops.  Erik Brandt is a graphic designer and educator currently based in Minneapolis and runs a studio called Typografika.  Don Crow is a teacher, painter and collage artist based in Richmond, VA.  Crow’s fragile paper collages, large digital prints and abstract paintings draw attention to objects as obvious constructions and invisible processes. This series is free, please register at […]