Reworking a Bloom

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. A sense of growth and renewal. A defiance of gravitational pull. In Meanley’s paintings, the process of revision is prevalent in the surfaces of the canvas, the paint clots reveal a history of decision making that is obsessive in nature. The figures are densely layered with paint, the perpetual painting-over something and building up of a surface reveals the shifting states of psychology. The surface, like emotion, reveals and conceals itself with itself. There might be a folding inward, a cosmic combustion. There’s a crystalline transparency like shards in a constant state of dispersal and assembly.

Artist Websites:
https://mariabritton.com/
https://www.jenniferhmeanley.com/