Current/Upcoming

February 24, 2025

UNC-Chapel Hill MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2025

Lump Gallery Presents  UNC-Chapel Hill MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2025  Lump Gallery is located at 505 S. Blount St., Raleigh, NC 27601   Opening Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1-5pm, and by appointment   For press inquiries or other questions, please contact [email protected]  March 7th – March 29th:   An Animal Within by Rebecca Pempek / Sermons in the Soil – John Felix Arnold  Opening reception: March 7, 6-9pm   April 4th – April 26th:   Confluence by Carson Whitmore / ¿Qué dice tu corazón? by Dominique Muñoz  Opening reception: April 4, 6-9pm   Lump Gallery is pleased to present thesis exhibitions by UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2025 MFA graduating class:  John Felix Arnold, Dominique Muñoz, Rebecca Pempek, and Carson Whitmore. The exhibitions will be  shown in pairs at Lump Gallery from March 7 – 29 and April 4 – 26.   At the culmination […]
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. […]