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July 1, 2025

Topher Lineberry: Giant-Sized Annual: A Solo Exhibition in Two Parts

Topher Lineberry Giant-Sized Annual: A Solo Exhibition in Two Parts opening Saturday, July 12, 6-9pm [updated date] Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through August 31 Giant-Sized Annual exhibition reviewed in Burnaway, by Matt Garite. Full article here. Installation View of Side One: Statuemania! from Topher Lineberry’s Giant-Sized Annual: A Solo Exhibition in Two Parts, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2025, Photograph by Jessica Greenfield Giant-Sized Annual is a solo exhibition by Topher Lineberry across Lump’s two gallery spaces. Each of the two gallery spaces presents a different thesis and collection of Lineberry’s work. The exhibition includes drawing, collage, photography, sculpture, and animation. Giant-Sized Annual is named after the comic book industry’s practice of publishing a 13th stand-alone annual issue within a 12-month series run. This issue is often an extra space to experiment with one-offs, genre and format twists, reprints of older stories, or any combination of deviant […]
June 4, 2025

Thirtyfour Or More Vermeers

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

Blah Blah Blah

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.
June 4, 2025

Celebrate Flag Day at LUMP

    Celebrate Flag Day at Lump on June 14 from 7 to 10 pm. The evening will feature performances by Dear, Lucy & Friends, Susannah Simpson, Wetness (maybe), Neill Prewitt, Fleetwood Macaroni, and Tuscany Pumpkin.  Suggested donation: $5 (NOTAFLOF) This event is related programming to the exhibition, Mid Career, by Critter.
April 21, 2025

Good Grief, LUMP at SPRING/BREAK NY 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

Mid Career by Critter

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

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 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

2024 Annual LUMP Fundraiser

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 | Chanelle Allesandre

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

the nothing that is – Chapter 7

“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

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 […]