Team Lump
April 30, 2026
portals TeamLump Opening Friday, May 1, 6 – 9pm with a performance by David Colagiovanni Through May 30, open Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm Round Table with TeamLump members, Saturday, May 2 at 3pm Bill Thelen is ending an era of Lump this August 2026. Before the end, he has assembled multiple exhibitions, performances, celebrations and reunions. Big announcements involving the future of Lump and the space will be announced in June. Here is a statement from Thelen, “I’m ending an era of Lump this August. I will retire and close out Lump as we know it. I started Lump (with my partner Med Byrd jr) in 1996 and 30 years seems like an excellent time to close out this chapter of my life. I hope you can celebrate with me!” To kick off the last 4 months of Lump, we […]
February 23, 2026
Lump Presents: UNC-Chapel Hill MFA Thesis Exhibitions March 6th – March 29th: INFRA ULTRA by CJ Murphy / Under the Thumb by Michelle Lisa Polissaint Opening reception: March 6, 6-9 pm April 3rd – April 26th: Nepantla by Wendy Yamilett Moran / Growing Elsewhere: Ghorbatī (غربتی) by Rojano Mohammadzadeh / Blood, Sap, Dirt by Iris Moyan Wang Opening reception: April 3, 6-9 pm
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 […]
February 4, 2026
February 6- March 1, 2026 Opening Friday, February 6, 6-9pm Lump Gallery presents How to Ask for Wind When You Want a Storm, a solo exhibition by David Benarroch. Through sculpture, drawing, and mixed media, Benarroch investigates the intimate and dynamic relationships between materials, ideas, and human presence. The works unfold as a single, immersive environment—gestures and forms that lean toward one another, leaving traces that accumulate, drift, and converge. Engaging a broad understanding of memory, the exhibition attends to the ways experience, sensation, and time become inscribed in material and form. Benarroch’s practice explores the fine line between the intentional and the incidental through material expressions of process, gesture, movement, and freedom. Rooted in intimate, hands-on engagement, he works with malleable materials that are allowed to resist, shift, and respond, embracing chance, spontaneity, and play. His intuitive, exploratory […]
February 4, 2026
February 6- March 1, 2026 Opening Friday, February 6, 6-9pm “Demons are summoned by the power of their own name”, my friend once told me as a teenager. My last name is Potts. People are their names. Names are magic, names are spells. On the one hand, you may think my people were potters, wouldn’t that be easy and obvious? But research also says Pott was an Old English word for a hole in the ground or a pit, a distinguishing feature of the land where people lived. Potters, dwellers of pitted land, it all ties to earth, to dirt. I am a farmer’s and a coal miner’s grandchild, both diggers of the earth- one making magic in the form of food, one taking rocky treasures to make energy. The earth has been under my familial fingernails for generations, whether […]
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 […]
October 31, 2025
Opening Friday, November 7, 6-9pm Performance at 7pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through November 30 My key childhood experience stems from a moment when I felt strongly that I was not human. That feeling has remained with me ever since, and I have never forgotten it. In my artistic work, I search for humanity everywhere. I try to draw and describe it. I try to bring it out when I interact with an audience. I look for it not only in people and the objects they use, but also in nature and other animal species—conscious beings who, like us, make choices and share many of our emotions and impulses. In the end, I don’t even know if I believe in humanity overall. Cultural humanity is characterized by endless evil and injustice. Almost every culture also contains an inherent element […]
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 […]
September 1, 2025
Spirit Creek Leif Gann-Matzen Opening this Friday, September 5, 6-9pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through October 26 Leif Gann-Matzen presents Spirit Creek, a solo exhibition at Lump from September 5 through October 26. Opening reception September 5, 6-9 PM. Moving between processes both patient and immediate, Leif creates sculpture as a way of inhabiting the mystery of life and locating himself within it. His work unfolds through a range of media and methods, and many of his materials are gathered directly from the creek bed that surrounds his studio. Leif’s objects echo the drift of debris along the floodplain and the erosive nature of water, but also the slow pull of planets, the clustering of particles, and the way valence is less a fixed state than a promise of connection. Spirit Creek breathes life in its evolving arrangements – what […]
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/