Team Lump

February 6, 2020

PLEASURE, VOID

PLEASURE, VOID UNC Studio Art, Masters Show Coming this fall, we’ll hand the gallery over to our friends at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for an exhibition of thesis work by artists in the Studio Art, MFA program.
January 4, 2020

At the Dark End of the Bar – Joe Frank

January 3, 2020

La Donna Del Lago – Leanne Shapton

January 2, 2020

The Possessed (aka, La Donna Del Lago)

January 1, 2020

Lost Highway

December 31, 2019

♫ X Harlow, Endo Kame, Chinchorro ♫

December 30, 2019

Sticky Fingers of Time

December 16, 2019

♫ Memory Care Unit ♫

Friday January 3rd at 8pm. Like the fog holds the light. We invite you to an evening of performance by Memory Care Unit. Memory Care Unit = touching new age noise and brutal ambient by Cedar Village resident/performer/visual artist/underground music organizer Ryan Martin, who has more prolifically performed as Secret Boyfriend since 2005, with numerous cassettes and records released via his own Hot Releases label and other American underground labels, as well as the UK’s Blackest Ever Black. While the SB project has a stylistic palette of intuitively organized harsh noise, lo-fi electronics stretched towards emotional expanses, fake techno, haunted and familiar songforms rendered with acoustic instruments and other, and more, MCU explores the more deliberate, minimal branch of Rymar’s work, while still aiming for an emotional or visceral impact, the latter being more evident in a live-setting, with sound […]
November 9, 2019

♫ Spookstina, OPS ♫

Please join us on December 6 (First Friday) for performances by Spookstina and OPS, and a tape release of a mystical playlist by Devon Tuttle and Conner Calhoun . Coinciding with our current exhibits Whispers From Wizard Mountain and Mystical Logical, we send you down a river of synthesizers and loop pedal collage. More info to come.  
November 9, 2019

Movie Night – Wizards (1977)

Please join us on the evening of November 22 at 7 pm for a screening of Wizards, by Ralph Bakshi. To watch the animated cult film, Wizards (1977), is a bit like being a teenager who sneaks into a secluded patch of woods to drink Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers and smoke cigarettes, procured from a pull knob, vending machine; the illicit qualities are specific to an era deep enough in the past that they feel quaint. But those expressions of irreverence are so fundamental that they integrate seamlessly into in each consecutive generation’s sense of what is naughty. It is hardly a surprise that the inappropriateness of Wizards is still palpable today, and even less of a surprise that it bears notable influence on Conner Calhoun’s solo exhibition, Whispers From Wizard Mountain.  Here, Calhoun mines visual tropes of the […]
October 27, 2019

MYSTICAL LOGICAL

MYSTICAL LOGICAL November 1 – December 13, 2019 Opening reception: Friday, November 1st, 6 – 9pm Celia Gray, Jessica Ciocci, Brandon Boan and Ben Kinsley For this group show, four artists have encamped in a kind of No Man’s Land of reason. Curators, Orvokki Crosby and Jerstin Crosby, derived the title from a childlike misnomer of the word, “mythological.”  The works are created from a variety of materials: clay, fiber, 3-D printed resin, and sound. Seen at once, they reveal a natural convergence between mysticism and science, fantasy and rational logic. Their mysterious presence maps a topography where the laws of science are skewed, and the rules of creativity have come undone. http://jessicaciocci.com http://benkinsley.com
October 27, 2019

Conner Calhoun – Whispers From Wizard Mountain

WHISPERS FROM WIZARD MOUNTAIN November 1 – December 13, 2019 Opening reception: Friday, November 1st, 6 – 9pm A solo exhibition by Conner Calhoun For his first solo exhibition at LUMP, Conner Calhoun digs for his pagan roots and conjures highly personal folklore through drawings, paintings and sculpture. The work is inspired by illuminated manuscripts and fantasy narratives. The resulting phantasmagoria is rife with trauma, conspiracy and wry humor. It warns us to tread lightly in Calhoun’s creative dominion, because no pleasure goes unpunished. https://www.connercalhoun.com