July 7, 2026
Performances in July & August In August, we will present our final Lump project 800 with Calvin Brett. August 13 – 15th. There are approximately 800 million people living in extreme poverty today. As a percent of the global population that’s roughly 10%. That percentage 100 years ago was closer to 60%. We should work toward ending extreme global poverty to increase people’s opportunity to realize their innate human potential. This would increase global stability, commerce, and innovation, while reducing human suffering. To gain a sense of the scale of the 800 million people currently living in extreme poverty today, artwork in this exhibit uses installations in sculpture, video, augmented reality, and print, to show pieces exploring sensations of space and form through agglomerations of 800. This exhibit is a fundraiser for the Borgen Project. The Borgen Project is an advocacy organization […]
July 7, 2026
Neill Prewitt & AV Geeks Sunday July 12, 2pm Neill Prewitt performs “Emotional Real Estate” Neill Prewitt grew up in Raleigh and his first solo show was at Lump in 2011. He’s returning with a solo performance of his 2024 rock opera “Emotional Real Estate,” about a new dad struggling to do the best for his kid in an overpriced housing market. Priced out of the middle-class lifestyle he was raised in and expects to be able to provide, Dad is tempted to mobilize behind his grievances, but emerges with some self-awareness to pass on. Neill recently became a dad, so this rock opera is about 20 minutes long. . A/V Geeks presents “My Dad” The A/V Geeks present a screening of vintage 16mm films celebrating (and side-eyeing) fathers everywhere. Classroom films and industrial oddities featuring the good dads, the bad dads, and the ones that make you […]
February 23, 2026
Artist Talks + Drawing + Divination Sunday, March 1, 2-5pm Artist Talks: Rebecca Potts 2:00pm David Benarroch 2:30pm Drawing & Divination with Rebecca Potts 3-5pm “A loosely structured working that uses Tarot as a jumping off point. Since this is the closing, and whatever is created will not remain to be on view, I thought that people could make their drawings on postcards that they then send out into the world to share, that way the art keeps moving through the world. Feels like a tie in to have tarot card become post card in the same way that the work in the show features a lot of things that are shifting states. So I’ll bring some different decks and people can draw a card or cards and then draw what they are moved to express – Maybe they draw for […]
November 30, 2025
LUMP BENEFIT & ARTIST MARKET Friday, December 5, 6-9pm Lump is celebrating 30 years of existence! To celebrate, we are hosting an annual Benefit Art Sale and an Artist Market on Friday December 5, from 6 to 9pm. Join us for art, food & drinks. Lump is a non-profit organization. Our prior benefits have used a variety of methods to sell artwork and raise funds for Lump and participating artists. To keep it simple this year, all proceeds from the Benefit Art Sale will go to Lump. The Other Side of Lump will have an Artist Market with tablers selling their wares. Many of these artists have been integral to keeping Lump going these years. Tabling artists include: Bill Fick, Jenny Eggleston, Leif Gann-Matzen, drawing room/Bill Thelen, Mike Geary, Jimmy Fountain, Orvokki Crosby, Jerstin Crosby, Ippis Halme, Marty Rogers, Topher Lineberry, Amy White, […]
November 7, 2025
Opening on The Other Side Friday, November 7, 6-9pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through November 30 Drawing Room is excited to present our first Crit Room project on The Other Side at Lump, opening this Friday, November 7th from 6-9pm. We’ve invited Lucinda Purkis, an east London artist and drawer to share 100 drawings with local drawers to visually interact with. A group of local drawers (Bill Thelen, Jenny Eggleston, Conner Calhoun, Jerstin Crosby, Marty Rogers, critter and others) read an essay about drawing by Purkis and selected drawings from Purkis’ portfolio to visually respond to. We will open it up to local drawers to respond on site and some will be included in the exhibition. At the end of the month we will have a “crit” with all the participants and online talk with Lucinda from London. Please check our IG acct for […]
September 30, 2025
Jenny Eggleston American Carnage: Quick Studies to Benefit the ACLU Opening on The Other Side, Friday, September 26, 6-9pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through October 26 My recent art is all about the gut-punch, the feeling of our collective jaws hitting the floor. Chaos IS disrupting whatever version of American representative democracy we each have believed in, threatening the comfort of many and amplifying fear for still more. The title of the show is taken from Trumps first inaugural address. In his nationalistic speech he used the phrase “American Carnage”. He signaled how he would govern in his first term — and laid out a vision for his second term. – Jenny Eggleston Jenny Eggleston is a Raleigh-based artist raised in Richmond, Virginia. Born into a family of historians, she was immersed in southern, patriotic rhetoric. Her work is a reckoning […]
September 1, 2025
HOPSKETCH, a collision of sound and drawing Opening this Friday, September 5, 6-9pm Saturday, September 6, 2pm & on The Other Side at Lump DrawingRoom is excited to present HOPSKETCH, a collision of sound and drawing. On Friday, September 5th from 6-9pm we open HOPSKETCH, Drawings by people who make sound. This is a collaborative and ever-expanding investigation into the “sound as drawing” concept first raised by Bill Thelen in his the nothing that is exhibition. These exhibitions push at every boundary that tries to contain drawing and its practices. On Saturday, Sept 6th, we will be presenting a day of sound, performance, and installation, with plenty of drawing opportunities for all that attend. Sounds will begin at 2pm. Current lineup is as follows: Connie Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III Cysome Fossilized Wilderness Nathan Taylor Mike Geary Poison Skull Spookstina […]
July 2, 2025
AVERAGE WEEKEND Friday July 18, 8pm Location: Lump $10-20 sliding NOTAFLOF Liquid Asset (Philadelphia) Cube (NYC) Henhouse (Oakland/NYC) Poison Skull (Raleigh) Wetwork (Raleigh) Marta Nunez Pouzols (Durham) Hedonista (GSO) Saturday July 19, 6:30pm Location: Cathedral II $10-20 sliding NOTAFLOF Verity Den (NC) Matt Robidoux (Oakland) Matt Normal (SF) CEVRA (RVA) Anonymous Duo Glyn Maier (Enmossed) Secret Boyfriend (Cedar) Seiiser (Carrboro) Plus maybe other surprised ?? https://www.instagram.com/fossilizedwilderness/ https://www.instagram.com/hot.releases/
June 4, 2025
Lump invites you to attend a book-signing party for Thirtyfour Or More Vermeers by Critter, on June 6 at 505 South Blount Street. Thirtyfour Or More Vermeers is the latest publication in the Inferior Quotations series. The book mixes marketing-minded and poetic expressions, and alludes to both the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer, and to the parking-lot book by Ed Ruscha. Concurrently on view in the gallery is a new and corresponding series of paintings titled Thirtyfour Or More Vermeers. These collective expressions contend that the distinctions between art, poetry, advertising, and a list of product categories, appropriated verbatim, can be solely typographic and material. Mid Career remains on view in the gallery. Skully Goo and Olivia Gone have taken over the Drawing Room with Nothing Can Happen. And the bathroom. You should see the bathroom. CRITTER Thirtyfour Or More […]
June 4, 2025
Enjoy activities and an artist talk at Lump on June 8 from 1 to 5 pm. 1pm – Open. 2pm – Silent drawing in the galleries. 3pm – Critter talk and drawing prompts. 5pm – Close. This event is related programming to the exhibition, Mid Career, by Critter.