June 4, 2025
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
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 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
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
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 […]