November 30, 2025
LUMP BENEFIT & ARTIST MARKET Friday, December 5, 6-9pm Lump is celebrating 30 years of existence! To celebrate, we are hosting an annual Benefit Art Sale and an Artist Market on Friday December 5, from 6 to 9pm. Join us for art, food & drinks. Lump is a non-profit organization. Our prior benefits have used a variety of methods to sell artwork and raise funds for Lump and participating artists. To keep it simple this year, all proceeds from the Benefit Art Sale will go to Lump. The Other Side of Lump will have an Artist Market with tablers selling their wares. Many of these artists have been integral to keeping Lump going these years. Tabling artists include: Bill Fick, Jenny Eggleston, Leif Gann-Matzen, drawing room/Bill Thelen, Mike Geary, Jimmy Fountain, Orvokki Crosby, Jerstin Crosby, Ippis Halme, Marty Rogers, Topher Lineberry, Amy White, […]
November 7, 2025
Opening on The Other Side Friday, November 7, 6-9pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through November 30 Drawing Room is excited to present our first Crit Room project on The Other Side at Lump, opening this Friday, November 7th from 6-9pm. We’ve invited Lucinda Purkis, an east London artist and drawer to share 100 drawings with local drawers to visually interact with. A group of local drawers (Bill Thelen, Jenny Eggleston, Conner Calhoun, Jerstin Crosby, Marty Rogers, critter and others) read an essay about drawing by Purkis and selected drawings from Purkis’ portfolio to visually respond to. We will open it up to local drawers to respond on site and some will be included in the exhibition. At the end of the month we will have a “crit” with all the participants and online talk with Lucinda from London. Please check our IG acct for […]
September 30, 2025
Jenny Eggleston American Carnage: Quick Studies to Benefit the ACLU Opening on The Other Side, Friday, September 26, 6-9pm Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm through October 26 My recent art is all about the gut-punch, the feeling of our collective jaws hitting the floor. Chaos IS disrupting whatever version of American representative democracy we each have believed in, threatening the comfort of many and amplifying fear for still more. The title of the show is taken from Trumps first inaugural address. In his nationalistic speech he used the phrase “American Carnage”. He signaled how he would govern in his first term — and laid out a vision for his second term. – Jenny Eggleston Jenny Eggleston is a Raleigh-based artist raised in Richmond, Virginia. Born into a family of historians, she was immersed in southern, patriotic rhetoric. Her work is a reckoning […]
September 1, 2025
HOPSKETCH, a collision of sound and drawing Opening this Friday, September 5, 6-9pm Saturday, September 6, 2pm & on The Other Side at Lump DrawingRoom is excited to present HOPSKETCH, a collision of sound and drawing. On Friday, September 5th from 6-9pm we open HOPSKETCH, Drawings by people who make sound. This is a collaborative and ever-expanding investigation into the “sound as drawing” concept first raised by Bill Thelen in his the nothing that is exhibition. These exhibitions push at every boundary that tries to contain drawing and its practices. On Saturday, Sept 6th, we will be presenting a day of sound, performance, and installation, with plenty of drawing opportunities for all that attend. Sounds will begin at 2pm. Current lineup is as follows: Connie Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III Cysome Fossilized Wilderness Nathan Taylor Mike Geary Poison Skull Spookstina […]
July 2, 2025
AVERAGE WEEKEND Friday July 18, 8pm Location: Lump $10-20 sliding NOTAFLOF Liquid Asset (Philadelphia) Cube (NYC) Henhouse (Oakland/NYC) Poison Skull (Raleigh) Wetwork (Raleigh) Marta Nunez Pouzols (Durham) Hedonista (GSO) Saturday July 19, 6:30pm Location: Cathedral II $10-20 sliding NOTAFLOF Verity Den (NC) Matt Robidoux (Oakland) Matt Normal (SF) CEVRA (RVA) Anonymous Duo Glyn Maier (Enmossed) Secret Boyfriend (Cedar) Seiiser (Carrboro) Plus maybe other surprised ?? https://www.instagram.com/fossilizedwilderness/ https://www.instagram.com/hot.releases/
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.
February 24, 2025
Film Screening : Crossing Saturday March 1 @ 3pm About a year ago I started to listen to the Turkish folk singer Selda Bağcan on a very heavy rotation. She is often referred to as “the bitter sound of Turkish people” due to the emotional quality of her vocals. I remember it matching the bittersweet mood that I was already settled into. When I watched Crossing for the first time, there was a scene in which the main character Lia (played by Mzia Arabuli) is walking through Istanbul alone, there’s a look in her face of deep nostalgia, as though she’s reliving memories from when she visited the city as a child; this scene is accompanied by Selda Bağcan in the soundtrack. There is a depth to this scene in which the narrative is ushered more by emotion than by words, […]
December 29, 2024
Performance: works in process Movement – Matthew Rock Cello – Daniel Levin Friday January 17, 7:30pm $10 Suggested Donation Matthew Rock (Pinehurst, NC) has performed, choreographed, and presented his works in venues and theaters all along the Eastern US. Matthew’s works were selected for the 34th Annual Choreographer’s Showcase in DC, Atlas Dance Festival 2017, Wake Forest Dance Festival 2018, and NCDF 2019 and 2024. He produced his own dance festival, Weymouth in Motion in 2021 and 2022 in Southern Pines, NC. As artistic director of MARO Movement, his works provide different insights and perspectives on current societal events and human experiences through athleticism and artistry. Dancing with companies such as ArasDance, Jane Franklin Dance, and Light Switch Dance Theatre and under the instruction of various renowned dance artists, he has received a versatile education. Matthew graduated from the University of North […]