project room: David Opdyke Oct 6-29 2000 Lump is located at 505 S. Blount St, Raleigh, NC. More information about our mission and exhibition programs can be found at lumpprojects.org.

Balls and Dolls – Max Below Toledo-Paris and Sherri Wood project room: Send in the Clowns curated by Lump Lipshitz APRIL 2000 “Wood has cleverly played upon the stereotypical naming of women as “dolls,” then invited women in a male-dominated art form (tattooing) to create uplifting female imagery for these stand-ins for the female figure, while insisting upon a traditional female craft – embroidery – for their execution. More outrageous are a series of cotton panties which Wood has embellished with vintage-style hand-towel designs that have a double-entendre edge. Adding to the sexual content of the message is the fact that these panties have split crotches, adorned with embroidered buttonhole stitching. The shock value in these works consists of their clever juxtapositioning of tame female craft with overt sexual reference. Max Below Toledo-Paris’s work operates on a much more complex […]

Xploded Formz – Dana Raymond project room: New Trips – Reed Anderson MARCH 2000 Lump is located at 505 S. Blount St, Raleigh, NC. More information about our mission and exhibition programs can be found at lumpprojects.org.