Voyage Raleigh interviewed me about my background, life and business recently for their ‘Local Stories’ feature. Read the interview here.
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LUMP25 Fundraiser
www.indiegogo.com/projects/lump-25th-anniversary-fundraiser
The Lump experiment began in 1996 when artist, Bill Thelen, and engineer, Med Byrd transformed a lackluster cinderblock building that was formerly an upholstery shop, then a cobbler’s workshop, then a night club called, The Blue Lady Lounge, into a vibrant exhibition space that also offered affordable studios for artists. Over the past twenty-five years, Lump has served the region’s creative community by providing space and resources for innovative, thought-provoking art exhibitions and events, while acting as a pipeline between North Carolina and the greater world of contemporary art.
Lump continues to bring rigor and professionalism to the hard-driving experimentation and self-determination that defined its inception. Now, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, LUMP relies almost entirely on your financial help in order to continue to serve artists and realize their ideas in the uncompromising spirit with which the space was created.
In celebration of Lump’s first 25 years, we’ve set a fundraising goal of $25,000 in order to cover all of the bases. Your much needed donation will be spread between exhibition programming, rent, and general maintenance of Lump’s two-gallery space. In return for your generous support, you’ll be able to claim a small piece of Lump in the form of various incentives, depending on your donation level. We have Lump T-shirts designed by Bill Thelen, exclusive limited-edition risograph prints by 5 artists created specifically for our 25 for 25 campaign. We also have risographs posters from past Lump shows, designed by Jerstin Crosby, plus copies of Blount Force Magazine, Lump’s annual art, and lit zine. And in lieu of a traditional art auction, we have original works of art created by a wide range of artists, working at every level, available at a variety of donation amounts. Throughout the fundraiser we will be adding items on a regular basis, so keep checking in. The goodies will keep coming.
Space Case: Making a Case for Artist-Run Spaces at LABspace
Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
Opening Reception: Sunday February 16th, 3-5
On view February 16 - March 29, 2020
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm & by appt
LABspace
2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY
Please join us for this journey through artist-run spaces of Chapel Hill and Raleigh NC, Chattanooga and Nashville TN... with a detour through Charlottesville VA!
We’ve (Curators: Julie Torres & Ellen Letcher) culled this show from our visits with artists who have founded and/or run uniquely situated and inventively programmed labors of love, exhibiting the work of fellow artists in attics, basements, sheds, faculty offices, former meat packing plants... and traditional white boxes, too.
Also on view are works from Drawing and Painting majors at the University of TN, Chattanooga who we met through Christina Renfer Vogel’s curatorial project Office Space, in which Vogel installs exhibitions in her faculty office and hallways. This initiative has inspired her students to devise their own artist-run projects and plans, so we’ve jumped at the chance to fan those flames.
LABspace was founded by artist Susan Jennings in 2014, and we took the reins in 2018. We met SJ in 2015 at DIY anti-fair ARTIST-RUN at Satellite Art Show in Miami (curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid). Without TSA’s ARTIST-RUN project, we would not have met SJ or her wonderful space, which is now our curatorial home. We are so indebted to our own local community of artists who show, promote, and support fellow artists. Please come celebrate this necessary and enduring tradition!
Space Case at LABspace
UNIVERSITY OF TN, CHATTANOOGA:
Christina Renfer Vogel
Amanda Nolan Booker
Larkin Cook
Claudia Hoffer
Caitlin Kelley
Shannon McAllister
Hilary McWilliams
Dionna Moore
Victoria Sauer
Olivia Tawzer
Summer Tomes
VERSA, CHATTANOOGA:
Mirel Crumb
Dana Ortega
Chloë Shupe
Stephanie Loggans
Dylan Pew
Kirby Miles
STOVE WORKS, CHATTANOOGA:
Mike Calway-Fagen
LOG, CHAPEL HILL:
Maria Britton
April Childers
MY ROOM, CHAPEL HILL//LUMP, RALEIGH:
Amanda Barr
John Bowman
DRAWING ROOM/LUMP, RALEIGH:
Bill Thelen
ACID RAIN, CHAPEL HILL:
Jerstin Crosby
THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND, RALEIGH & CHAPEL HILL:
Orvokki Crosby
BASEMENT, CHAPEL HILL:
Laura Little
Mike Keaveney
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Chieko Murasugi
John DeKemper II
ONEONEONE, CHAPEL HILL/GUTTER BOX, RALEIGH:
Louis Watts
LUMP/THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND VOLUNTEER:
Critter
UNREQUITED LEISURE, NASHVILLE:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
Clinton Sleeper
ELECTRIC SHED, NASHVILLE:
David Onri Anderson
DADU, NASHVILLE:
Jodi Hays
DAVID LUSK GALLERY, NASHVILLE:
Ameila Briggs
MITTEN, HARRISONBURG VA/FORMER TEAM LUMP, RALEIGH/CURRENTLY CHARLOTTESVILLE VA:
Allyson Mellberg Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
Food of the Gods, solo show by Lydia McCarthy at Artspace
From September 7- October 27, 2018, go see 'Food of the Gods' a solo show by artist & photographer Lydia McCarthy at Artspace, downtown Raleigh. We sell her limited edition book "Vision 5: The Vibratory Waves of External Unity," in store.
"Photography becomes a means of access to the unknown for New York photographer, Lydia McCarthy. Her saturated palette and psychedelic still lifes hover between the space of documentation, metaphor and material investigation. McCarthy strips her subjects of their context to exploit the idea that photography is able to capture a world beyond our comprehension."
Lydia is based in Alfred, NY but went to UNC CH for her MFA.
Raleigh Night Market -> Thursday, August 16, 6-11pm
We will be at the Raleigh Night Market on Thursday, August 16 from 6-11pm. It will be taking place at the Historic City Market (306 Parham Street, downtown Raleigh).
"The Raleigh Night Market showcases Raleigh’s creativity under the beautiful lights and cobblestone streets of City Market and the sale of locally-made goods. The night market will be filled with live music and entertainment, local Triangle area artisans, food and drinks."
Long-term Installation at Lump Gallery, Raleigh opening February 2, 6-9pm
Excited to have a long-term installation in the back corner at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, opening Friday, February 2 from 6-9pm. Come by and browse through the newsstand or buy online and pick up at Lump! Open during gallery hours.
Opening the same night is an exhibit by Becky Flanders: PAIN BODIES: Political resistance and the accumulation of psychic pain
Becky Flanders is an artist and entrepreneur based in Tampa, FL. Born in the Washington DC area in 1980, she received her BS in Artificial Life and the Digital Arts from UMBC in 2002, and her MFA in Photography from USF in 2009. She is a leading member of the photography collective Fountain of Pythons, and a member of the all-female curatorial collective CUNSTHAUS. Her work has been exhibited from Miami to Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia. Her works have recently been accepted into the permanent collection of the Kinsey Institute. Her focuses are the mythic feminine, transcendent and ecstatic states, sex positivity, and the relationship between subjects and states.
Lump is located at 505 S. Blount St., Raleigh, NC 27601
