In That Gold Land

curated by Thad Kellstadt

In That Gold Land is a group show that Lump friend Thad Kellstadt put together at Heaven Gallery. Show opened on May 16th, and runs into mid-June. If you're around Chicago or Wicker Park stop in , the gallery is right off Milwaukee Ave. Me and Bill are in this show with some other greats artists and friends like Thad, Jacob Ciocci, Josh Tonies, Matt Barton, Jesse Hulcher, Ladyboy, etc, the list goes on. The show was sponsored by the Harold Arts organization which is a grassroots residency program and self-publisher of HARQ, the Harold Arts Residency Quarterly. Nicholas Wylie, an overall rad person, and Harold Arts organizer was also in the show. Here's a few pics of the lay out. Big thanks to Thad and Jesse for housing everyone and being great hosts.
-Jerstin

cool, calm and collected

Article. Bill Thelen's AID's quilt from his 2007 Branch Gallery solo show "minor character" has found its way into the Weatherspoon Museum of Arts' current "Cool, Calm and Collected" exhibit. The show is a chance for them to show off the recent purchases and additions to the expansive contemporary collection that the Weatherspoon is building in Greensboro. I love this museum. They put together some great shows and have a really nice space. This "Cool and Collected" show is not up for very much longer, so if you haven't checked it out yet, you should.

Tory Wright at D.C.'s, Civilian Art Projects

If youre around the DC area in the coming weeks be sure to stop in at Civilian Art Projects to see their current exhibit Women’s Work: Lynn Cazabon, Hadieh Shafie, Tory Wright
. Our infamous Team Lump cohort Tory Wright has some great cut out drawings in this three person show.

Civilian Art Projects

Tory Wright

Jeremy Taylor showing "Salus" in Charlottesville

There is a lot going on this month in the Lumpy world of art, Tory Wright (blog forthcoming) had her solo show "Pleasure Seekers" open last Friday at Lump, Josh Rickards new solo show titled "Do Unto Others and Then Run Like a Mother" opened at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Jeremy Taylor's show "Salus" opened at the Garage in Charlottesville, VA. Josh and Tory's shows will be promptly posted but I wanted to get this up to let people know about his closing on the 27th of Febzzzzz.

From the Garage blog: "Jeremy is an artist and professor at James Madison University. His new show, “Salus,” features new drawings, paintings, prints, and objects…all made from natural, organic pigments, and ecologically responsible materials. “Salus” means “safety” in Latin; Jeremy uses the theme of safety to address issues of how animals adapt to their environment in a world far removed from nature."

Make sure you make it to the closing of 'Salus' on February 27th.
More info at : http://www.allysonandjeremy.blogspot.com/
Also, Team Lump is in a show currently on display at the AVA center in Chattanooga, TN, called Seed: Bin.

Cockeyed Press Limited Edition Print By TeamLump

Cockeyed Press recently released their first limited edition print of 2009, and it's a TeamLump cluster@#$%!!! We put the composition together and then Bill Fick meticulously carved it out of linoleum and made a series of 25 prints. All purchases go to help TeamLump get over to London this summer for our next collective installation, at Cell Space.

TeamLump
"Luxury and Degradation"
Lino Cut
Limited Edition of 25
$40
Printed by Cockeyed Press

Cannonball Wuz Here, And Still Is.........

Cannonball Press
Drink Up and Be Somebody

Show run: December 5 – 27, 2008

Lump Gallery
505 S. Blount St
Raleigh, NC 27605
Hours: Saturdays 12-5pm and by appointment during the week

Lump will also be open additional Friday nights (12/12 and 12/19) from 6pm -9pm as part of the Every Friday in December is First Friday event.

Them scallywag, good-for-nothing, woodblock carvin', boys from Cannonball Press made a pilgrimage down from Brooklyn last week to install their recent Lump show, "Drink Up and Be Somebody". They dub it the "World Premiere" of a series of giant block prints full of "can you hold my hair while I puke", booty grinding, slobbery. For nine years, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston have been producing limited edition relief cuts, silkscreens, and lithographs from their own hands as well as publishing prints from other artists, many of which are included in C-balls third Lump show like, Dennis McNett, David Ellis, Maya Hayuk, Bill Thelen, Aiyanna Udessen, Swoon, Bill Fick, and the Amazing Hancock Brothers.

One thing the Cannonballers do very well is squeeze a lot of party into one print, and they sure as fire went "Saloon style" with this show crammed with hundreds of $20 lim ed. works in a space they broke up masterfully by hanging 8x4 foot prints on canvas from the ceiling. Team Lump's Tory Wright took one metric shit ton of pics from the opening night: here's a few.

OBAMA

Barack is President yall.