Team Lump
July 18, 2022
ABORTION STORIES USA Artist/activist group show July 22nd through August 28th Opening reception this Friday July 22, 6-9pm Abortion Stories USA is a courageous, activated, sacred space celebrating women, queer and trans bodily autonomy. We hold space for abortion stories, reproductive justice and coalition-building across the United States and affirm unequivocally that the right to choose is a fundamental human right. Immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned, artist/curator Rebecca Goyette organized a group of artists and activists who speak bluntly about the growing crisis created by the nationwide cascade of bans on abortion. For everyone involved, this show is an essential step in normalizing and decriminalizing abortion by sharing stories, strategies, up-to-date information on abortion pills, and building support networks and mutual aid. Whether sculpture, video, works on paper, or an experiment in oral history, each piece of art is unapologetic […]
July 18, 2022
FOLDING SPACE John Felix Arnold July 22nd through August 28th Opening reception this Friday July 22, 6-9pm For his first show at Lump, John Felix Arnold has created a sculptural installation that he describes as “a reimagining of mythologies that have come to dominate our current times.” His preoccupation with alchemy and other forms of mythic transformation inspired Arnold to create a series of objects out of rusted tin roofing sheets, bundles of burned branches, rope, and other found objects. Spacial tension between these pieces is a key to Arnold’s work, which weighs aesthetic relationships between objects, against the metaphysical implications of his assemblages. There’s an unshakeable narrative quality to these works, as if Arnold were tracing an etherial history, both forward and backward, simultaneously. He is, without a doubt, a seeker. Feeling his way through a process that opens him up to a deeper sense […]
June 1, 2022
LUMP IN THE NIGHT Repo Man / Street Trash Friday, June 3rd, 8pm. We’re scraping the bottom of the burn barrel with this double feature, and we’ve never been more excited. It starts with Repo Man, Alex Cox’s cult masterwork, the soundtrack of which offers an impeccable tasting menu of mid 80’s LA, punk and hardcore, while lampooning Scientology through the eyes of Otto, an insolent punk-turned car repossession agent. Then, for the real horror heads, we’ll go lowbrow raunch with, Street Trash, a uniquely sordid flick about a stray shipment of toxic ripple that blows street bums into neon rainbows of viscera. Totally offensive. Totally gross. If you haven’t seen either one of these flicks, you should wonder why they were kept from you, then put your shoes on, this Friday, and hoof it to Lump for the fix. […]
June 1, 2022
June 12th at 7pm After two agonizing years of discouraging people from collecting indoors, Lump is bringing experimental music performances back to the space, starting with Diane Cluck and Chanelle Allesandre. We can let the sounds wash over us once again. And it’s a good thing we don’t hear through our mouths, because masks are still mandatory, indoors at Lump. We’ve got free ones at the door.
June 1, 2022
LUMP IN THE NIGHT Action USA / Return of the Living Dead Sunday, July 3rd, 8pm. TWO Lumps in the Night!? Well, yeah man. It’s summer. We’ve just gotten over our Covid infections, and we’re feeling ambitious; daringly so, despite the prolonged fatigue. Up first, Josh from Lunchmeat has offered us his latest video release, a patriotic Chuck Norris knock-off that puts Chuck to shame, called Action USA. We will indeed be hooking up the VCR and playing it in a soothing 320 by 240 lines of resolution. For the second feature, we’re doing a make-up day for Return of the Living Dead. It just didn’t feel right, that quiet April night, because the story takes place on the night of July 3rd, so… ‘got to. Organized by Moviegoer NC and Mystery Meat with guest host, Lunchmeat VHS. Look out […]
June 1, 2022
RUNNING TIME June 3 – July 10, 2022 Every week of RUNNING TIME, a different video will be projected into the center of the gallery. Each piece documents a unique undercurrent of American culture and its corresponding rituals. The show mutates over time. It starts with a dingy, unhinged video tape, but ends with a tightly lensed 16mm piece that is playful and clever. It shifts from one very American phenomenon to another while spanning a wide swath of geographic settings. From a claustrophobic New York rock club, to the banks of the Mississippi river, then through a bizarre amalgam of the Austrian Alps and East Texas, up through the midwest, ultimately landing down in Amarillo. 6/3 Minor Threat, by Dan Graham Graham captures a pioneering hardcore band at a world famous punk rock club on blurry hand held video […]
June 1, 2022
Future Fakers: curated by Mike Geary “Future faker” is a dating term. It is someone who paints a rosy picture of the future, in a relationship, knowing full well that there is no future at all. It goes beyond dirty tactics. It takes plotting, organization and vision. More broadly considered, a future faker is any entity that uses a detailed vision of the future to facilitate or manifest events. Each of the works in this show is deceptive in a similar way. It takes its time, lays the groundwork, projects an illusion, then strikes. The show’s curator, Mike Geary describes it as, “a holographic semblance projected back at the viewer through a technique/anti-technique that misleads or removes the artists hand.” He raises the question of whether or not it is possible for a collective belief to become so thoroughly defined […]
April 12, 2022
UNC MFA thesis exhibition with Raj Bunnag, Charlie Dupee and Stella Rosalie Rosen April 15th through May 22nd Opening reception this Friday April 15th, 6-9pm The artists in UNC’s MFA thesis exhibition at Lump aren’t brooding. They’re mad. A cloud hangs over the gallery, seeded by slyly transgressive sculpture, drawings, and video. But as always at Lump, you need only to stay long enough to recognize the divine beauty in these artists’ work, and the tough-to-swallow message that comes with it will fall gently into place. Raj Bunnag’s large format, starkly rendered linocuts pose the question of where we stand in the spectrum between complacency and oppressive violence in a hyper-polarized America; a question that’s all the more discomfiting because the answer leaves no room to claim high moral ground. Stella Rosalie Rosen’s animated, video trilogy resonates with a similar […]
March 3, 2022
ARIEL WILLIAMS March 4 through April 10 Opening reception this Friday March 4th, 6-9pm Lump is proud to host Ariel Williams’s first solo show ever, comprised of baroque portraits of cakes and people. They veer quickly into dark territory, as each subject in this series is beautifully and bafflingly infested with ants, fungi, slugs and parasitic abstractions, all presented with the aim of tackling grave issues like chronic illness and grief. The execution is exquisite. The subject matter is intoxicating. And the unease that you’ll walk away with, is matched by awe at Ariel’s fast emerging talent and vision. ARTIST STATEMENT Cake is meant to be something beautiful and desirable, but that is not always the case. This series started out as a way to communicate the abundance of emotions that came with the low points in my life, […]
March 3, 2022
JASON LORD March 4 through April 10 Opening reception, this Friday, March 4th, 6-9pm Jason Lord has walked thousands of miles since the beginning of the pandemic; miles a day, every day, regardless of weather or general mood. On the way, he has collected flotsam and jetsam of a peripheral world. These are places that people deem worthy of nothing more than trash, but for Jason, those cast-off items, retrieved from street gutters and stretches of railroad track, provide an opportunity for intimate connection and aesthetic rebirth. ARTIST STATEMENT I have walked 5600 miles since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. March 10th will mark two years–731 consecutive days–of walking at least five miles, regardless of weather, temperature, workload, or mood. As I walk, I look, listen, and gather: thoughts, sounds, images, and objects. I notice, pick up, and […]
February 3, 2022
TV PARTY (UP ALL NIGHT 2) VIDEO GROUP SHOW CURATED BY GEORGE JENNE January 21 – February 27 Closing reception, Friday February 25, 6-9pm In 2017, Lump exhibited a show called Up All Night that paired music video with avant-garde video by long-established artists, alongside underrepresented artists. Up All Night described the point at which video art and music video intersect. Born close to the same time and out of a single technology, these disparate forms evolved in divergent economies, whose ideals seem to be at odds, yet inextricable. TV Party moves the dial in another direction and focuses on material born out of the public access television model, starting with Glen O’Brien’s raucous, New York City public access variety show, TV Party, which aired from 1978-1982. Here is yet another microcosm of creative expression made possible solely by video technology. As with Up All Night, Lump’s TV Party presents a playful […]
February 3, 2022
FLAT AFFECT GROUP SHOW CURATED BY HARRISON HAYNES January 21 – February 27 Closing reception, Friday February 25, 6-9pm Harrison Haynes launches his first ever curatorial endeavor with a group of fellow artists who have created works that are, at once, flat and sculptural. Playful deception runs throughout the show as each work oscillates between thing and picture. Making sense of a trick of the eye can be maddening, but also fun. These works force a person to slow down perception and decide wether or not to trust what their brain is showing them. “But it is precisely this quality of indecision,” Harrison says of the show, “connected to my ongoing, simultaneous discomfort with and dedication to the flat picture, which draws me to these works. And that, I believe, will be the catalyst for curiosity and conversation around them.” The show includes: Amanda Barr, Jared Buckhiester, Dawn Cerny & Nancy Shaver, Jerstin […]