Team Lump
December 16, 2019
Friday January 3rd at 8pm. Like the fog holds the light. We invite you to an evening of performance by Memory Care Unit. Memory Care Unit = touching new age noise and brutal ambient by Cedar Village resident/performer/visual artist/underground music organizer Ryan Martin, who has more prolifically performed as Secret Boyfriend since 2005, with numerous cassettes and records released via his own Hot Releases label and other American underground labels, as well as the UK’s Blackest Ever Black. While the SB project has a stylistic palette of intuitively organized harsh noise, lo-fi electronics stretched towards emotional expanses, fake techno, haunted and familiar songforms rendered with acoustic instruments and other, and more, MCU explores the more deliberate, minimal branch of Rymar’s work, while still aiming for an emotional or visceral impact, the latter being more evident in a live-setting, with sound […]
November 9, 2019
Please join us on December 6 (First Friday) for performances by Spookstina and OPS, and a tape release of a mystical playlist by Devon Tuttle and Conner Calhoun . Coinciding with our current exhibits Whispers From Wizard Mountain and Mystical Logical, we send you down a river of synthesizers and loop pedal collage. More info to come.
November 9, 2019
Please join us on the evening of November 22 at 7 pm for a screening of Wizards, by Ralph Bakshi. To watch the animated cult film, Wizards (1977), is a bit like being a teenager who sneaks into a secluded patch of woods to drink Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers and smoke cigarettes, procured from a pull knob, vending machine; the illicit qualities are specific to an era deep enough in the past that they feel quaint. But those expressions of irreverence are so fundamental that they integrate seamlessly into in each consecutive generation’s sense of what is naughty. It is hardly a surprise that the inappropriateness of Wizards is still palpable today, and even less of a surprise that it bears notable influence on Conner Calhoun’s solo exhibition, Whispers From Wizard Mountain. Here, Calhoun mines visual tropes of the […]
October 27, 2019
MYSTICAL LOGICAL November 1 – December 13, 2019 Opening reception: Friday, November 1st, 6 – 9pm Celia Gray, Jessica Ciocci, Brandon Boan and Ben Kinsley For this group show, four artists have encamped in a kind of No Man’s Land of reason. Curators, Orvokki Crosby and Jerstin Crosby, derived the title from a childlike misnomer of the word, “mythological.” The works are created from a variety of materials: clay, fiber, 3-D printed resin, and sound. Seen at once, they reveal a natural convergence between mysticism and science, fantasy and rational logic. Their mysterious presence maps a topography where the laws of science are skewed, and the rules of creativity have come undone. http://jessicaciocci.com http://benkinsley.com
October 27, 2019
WHISPERS FROM WIZARD MOUNTAIN November 1 – December 13, 2019 Opening reception: Friday, November 1st, 6 – 9pm A solo exhibition by Conner Calhoun For his first solo exhibition at LUMP, Conner Calhoun digs for his pagan roots and conjures highly personal folklore through drawings, paintings and sculpture. The work is inspired by illuminated manuscripts and fantasy narratives. The resulting phantasmagoria is rife with trauma, conspiracy and wry humor. It warns us to tread lightly in Calhoun’s creative dominion, because no pleasure goes unpunished. https://www.connercalhoun.com
August 15, 2019
Feels Warm, Like Things Burning September 6 – October 26 Opening reception September 6, 6 – 9pm Natalie Escobar, Alex C. Kerr, Saige Rowe, Hannah Tarr Curated by Jamie Steele www.camayuhs.com Closer, closer, getting warmer… Desire becomes a snake on the mountain. By turning to the natural world, the work in Feels Warm Like Things Burning presents the idea of looking for something as well as hints at the inherent danger involved. We live in a world that dictates humans as agents of desire. Within this framework we struggle to create and to love. In a self-centered social order, where do we come together and what do we gather around? These four artists tend to work outside, depict an imagined natural landscape, or use materials found in nature as a means of finding beauty in darkness, […]
April 24, 2019
This Saturday, April 27, helping us close out our LUMP SUM Benefit, C. Blomquist will play a solo/acoustic set of Country Music at Lump from 1:30 – 2:30pm. We will be serving pancakes, coffee, and more. Donations are always greatly appreciated. Yee-haw. MAKE NOTE: This week is your last chance to place a bid. Email info@lumpprojects.org for more information or to place, check, or up your bid. This is it. No bids will be accepted after 6pm on April 27th. For a full list of donor artists and a sampling of works available for bid, check out https://lumpprojects.org/lump-sum-2019-benefit-auction/ Amanda Barr will be leading a clay workshop from 3 – 5pm this day as well. The workshop is $25 and is limited to 10 people. She will be demonstrating traditional techniques and her own methods of making with clay. At the […]