Team Lump
April 21, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LUMP Gallery presentsGood Grief: More Than A Feelingat SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York 2025March 6–12, 202575 Varick St, New York, NY, Booth: C14 May 6th, 12pm – 5pm | Collectors First Look + Press Preview May 6th, 5pm – 8pm | Opening Night May 7th, Noon – 7pm | VIP Preview Day May 8th – 12th, Noon – 7pm | Public Show Days LUMP Gallery is proud to announce its presentation of Good Grief: More Than A Feeling at the 2025 SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York. In alignment with this year’s theme, “PARADISE LOST/FOUND,” the exhibition brings together six artists whose work reimagines the memorial not only as a marker of loss, but as a transformative site—where grief meets reflection, and memory becomes a creative, generative force. Artists include Ben Alper, Bill Thelen, Chanelle Allesandre, Conner Calhoun […]
April 21, 2025
RALEIGH, April 20, 2025 — Lump is pleased to announce Mid Career, an evolving exhibition of paintings, objects, and books by Critter, opening on May 2 at 505 South Blount Street. Critter conflates treasure and trash, authentic and counterfeit, art history and personal history, and corporate identity and personal identity. His work insists on the power and pleasure of relationships, and the value of visual and media literacy. Paintings and objects from series including Cancer, Loss Leaders, Perfect Religion, Thermostats, and Artist’s Shit will be exhibited for the first time, alongside earlier work from series including Lisa, Stations, Inferior Quotations, God Bless America, Hillsborough Street, Art Show, This Lush Little Meadow, Luncheon, and more. New work from one of the artist’s most expansive series, SPF, will strengthen the web of allusions throughout the exhibit. During the two-month residency, pieces will […]
December 18, 2024
Reworking a Bloom Featuring works by Maria Britton and Jennifer Meanley January 3 – March 2 Opening Reception: Friday, January 3, 6-9pm Lump is pleased to present a two person exhibition, Reworking a Bloom, a conversation between works by Jennifer Meanley and Maria Britton. Reworking a Bloom explores what it means to rework an object or image, and the fecund accumulation that occurs through the process. “To rework” has multiple implications within artmaking, when looking at Britton’s and Meanley’s work we can think of the idea of reworking as a means of repurpose, revision, reveal, and reconceal. For Britton, piles of fabric accumulate in the corners of her studio, they turn over like compost and reconfigure into a potential choice within Britton’s compositions. This abundance has the same achievement of gardening or harvest, where something climbs upward from a pile. […]
November 6, 2024
Gutter Box Review Volume 1: Local Papers Gutter Box Review Volume 1: Local Papers will showcase works by alumni of the Gutter Box project, initiated by artist Louis Watts at Lump in 2015 and now based on the NCMA-Winston Salem campus. Gutter Box is a sculptural and curatorial project that transforms a retrofitted newspaper distribution box into a miniature white cube gallery, playing with perceptions of scale and context. It offers artists the opportunity to experiment with installations and pieces that, through the shift in scale, achieve monumental effects with minimal materials and time. As a sculptural object repurposed from the ordinary shell of a newspaper box, Gutter Box provides an unexpected encounter with contemporary art. Free from the sacred or political confines of museums or the capitalistic sterilization of a commercial gallery, it offers an unguarded experience of art, liberated […]
October 7, 2024
Annual LUMP Fundraiser LUMP will be hosting its yearly fundraiser on November 1st 6-9pm. All artists are welcome, we are pricing all works at 25, 50, 100, and PLUS dollars, and are giving the option for artists to take a percentage or donate all profits to LUMP. We encourage affordable prices so that other artists have a chance to purchase other artists’ work. You can drop off work for donation during open gallery hours up until the event. You can mail your work in if you are out of town and want to participate. Or you can drop it off during the week of install which is October 29-31. We can also organize another way to get your work here if neither of those options work for you. People will be able to take work off the wall to purchase, […]
August 21, 2024
In a sense / In essence, solo show by Chanelle Allesandre September 7-October 27 Opening Friday, September 6, 6-9pm Performance Line Up: Friday, September 6 : Opening ceremony featuring Ambering (Chanelle Allesandre & Katie Addada Shlon) with Ryan Martin Saturday, September 14 : Conner Calhoun & Julia Santoli, Jameela F. Dallis, Phantomime, and Tenisele (Chanelle Allesandre & Mindy Stock) Friday, September 20 : Equinox celebration featuring Cornelius Van Strafin III, Kelli Francis Corrado, White Gourd, and Marta Núñez Pouzols & Chanelle Allesandre October: TBA In a sense / In essence is an invitation to immerse oneself in the layers of residue that connect us all: into the integrity of presence: into the invisible worlds in which we are all tethered. This interdisciplinary exhibition is an arrangement of installations which incorporate sound, flower essences, 35mm photography, poetry, and the live sculpting […]
June 5, 2024
“Back in 2015, I curated the nothing that is (a drawing show in 5 parts) at CAM Raleigh. The exhibition then traveled to the Carnegie in Cincinnati and picked up drawers along the way. I’ve been thinking a lot about that show in recent years and I never felt it was complete and hopefully it will never be. Chapter 6 investigated queer strategies last month at Lump, Chapter 7 investigates the relationship between sound and drawing.” -Bill Thelen The 3 part ‘sound as drawing’ event will have 3 music events during the weekends of: June 7 – 9 | grow with us – enmossed and hot releases music labels June 14 – 16 | Exquisite Corpse – All Data Lost June 21 – 23 | The Devil finds work for the unoccupied mind – Wifflefist Weekender Please note all of June […]
April 22, 2024
Drawing Room Invitational Opening on Friday, April 5th, 6-9pm Open Saturdays & Sundays 1-5 until May 25th the nothing that is – Chapter 6 : Drawing Room Invitational – a queer, trans, non binary, 2 spirit, plwa drawing summit/ conclave opening at Lump on April 5th. “So back in 2015, I curated the nothing that is (a drawing show in 5 parts) at CAM Raleigh. The exhibition then traveled to the Carnegie in Cincinnati and picked up drawers along the way. I’ve been thinking a lot about that show in recent years and I never felt it was complete and hopefully it will never be. I started drawing room (a queer, nomadic, drawing initiative) in 2016 and I decided to add two more chapters.” -Bill Thelen Chapter 6 investigates queer/trans/nonbinary/2spirit drawing strategies and is presented by drawing room for its Invitational. Chapter 6 opens next […]
January 20, 2024
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
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 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
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 […]