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. […]

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 […]