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Megan Sullivan at Jack Hanley NY

Our studio mate and TL buddy Megan Sullivan has some of her awesome wall hangings in Four Women at Jack Hanley in NYC. The show opens in November and will be up through December. Here's a link to Megan's site and one to the Jack Hanley gallery.

Tory Wright on Wooster Collective

http://woostercollective.com/

Team Lump's very own razor blade queen got blurbed on Wooster Collective. Each post isnt a new page or i'd just repost. But you should be on there anyway checkin shit theyre diggin out! Hunt it down, you got the interweb.

The Endangered Species Print Project

Our good friends Molly Schafer, and Jenny Kendler have started a great print series where different artist create an image of an endangered species, and the number of existing species corresponds to the number of limited edition prints offered by The Endangered Species Print Project (ESPP). < Follow this link for more information on the series, and to see some of the work thats come out so far. Your support of this print series goes directly to organizations that oversee the well-being of specific furry, feathered, and slimy friends.

DIY Rapture

Bill, Josh, Leah, and myself are flying out to London later this week to install our first major Team Lump exhibition since we did the "Glad To See You" show at 1026 in 07. We're building two big installations on site with mostly found materials, but I don't want to give away too much right now. I'll get the pictures up for you to see soon.

Yes!!!

jc

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.

Cartune Xprez at Lump

HOOLIGANSHIP will sail into Lump on Wednesday, October 29th, presenting their Fall Tour "Cartune Xprez - a roadshow of animated videos and multimedia performance."

Hooliganship is Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris. Both artists were born in 1980, and live and work in Portland, Oregon. They formed Hooliganship in 2002 creating performances, videos, music, and installations that revel in a hypnotic abundance of digital information. In REALER live music, cartoons, and video game worlds cross paths in a surreal adventure through 3 dimensions. 3D glasses will be provided at the screening.

A 70-minute program of short animated videos that celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures will be presented. Featured artists include Bruce Bickford, Eric Dyer, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad and more. Alongside this cartoon theater Hooliganship will be performing their most recent piece entitled “Realer” in which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness to a televised parade gone awry.

For more information, images please visit: http://www.cartunexprez.com/press/ or contact us at lumpgallery@gmail.com

Big Kids/Little Kids: Raleigh

Big Kids/Little Kids: Raleigh

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This is a really great group show that comes to Lump Gallery for the month of October via Philadelphia's Space 1026. The show features artists whose life and art have intertwined with Space 1026 over the years. A catalog for Big Kids/Little Kids is available at Lump. This traveling, yet evolving, exhibition was curated by John Freeborn. More information as well as catalogs can be found at his website.

Also visit Lump, Space 1026.

Artist included in the Lump version:
Adam Wallacavage
Amy S. Kauffman
Andrew Kuo
Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Barry McGee
Ben Woodward
Dave Delaney
Eric McDade
Isaac Lin
Jim Houser
Jordan Isip
John Freeborn
Joseph Hart
Ryan Wallace
Shepard Fairey
Shelley Spector
Shelter Serra
Tim Lewis
Thomas Maher
Todd St. John
Tom Lessner

Shephard Fairey

We're back!!!!

www.teamlump.org is back up and looks better than it has ever looked thanks to our friends at OPP (www.otherpeoplespixels.com). Let us know what you think.

Almost online..........but here's a short cut.

The new Team Lump site!!!!!!

The new Team Lump page is almost online , we're just waiting for the powers that be to connect our old domain to our site. For now though, the above link will take you to the webpage. Let me know if you have any ideas for how this should look. I'm especially looking for advice from current and former Team Lumpers. The front page image will change often, like the old site, and there will be a video component soon. If you know the link to artist or gallery websites from any of the former Team Lumpers, let me know so I can add them to the 'artists & friends' page. The books/zines page will be expanded, and they will be purchasable through Paypal or by snail mail.

We're soo down!

Hey, you may have noticed by now that www.teamlump.org has been down for about a week. We (bill) were getting gouged by the server host, and it seemed like they were charging more and more. We're changing hosts and in the meantime, we're re-vamping the entire site. It should be back up and running in the next week!

Ryan Martin / "Secret Xerox"

The other night while perusing Downtown Durham after going to the Stacy-Lynn Waddell show at Branch, we walked into an amazing studio/gallery space I've never been inside. The building was beautiful, and the interior reminded me of a Space 1026 with more walls and rooms. Sadly, the majority of everything on display was not quite as amazing as the building itself except for one man, Ryan Martin. You know him as Boy Zone, or Secret Boyfriend, and I believe he was in a little number called Boner Machine for a while. Ryan by far had the most interesting work in the show with his xeroxed drawings taped to the wall. If you live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro you see Ryan's drawings all the time on Nightlight flyers. Here's some photos of the xerox wall, and a video of Secret Boyfriend playing at the Nightlight.

Matt Keeney interviewed by Tory Wright

With the end of school and a thesis show behind her Tory Wright asks Matt Keeney a current grad student at MICA some questions (via e-mail) about his work.



Tory Wright:
So Matt, over the past three years you have explored performative acts in public spaces such as the internet, baseball parks, football stadiums, Wal-Mart and sidewalks lining the streets of Baltimore. How did you begin using your body within these performances?

Matt Keeney:
I first began using my actions as way to activate the sculptural pieces that I was working with, however I quickly found the medium of performance to be the perfect fit
for exploring the questions that the work was asking.

TW:
Curious! What were these sculptures that you were activating? What were these questions?

MK:
Well at first I was purely interested in our relationships with space, however making static sculptures to address this never quite seemed to fit. Once I started inserting myself into them I realized that there was a whole new set of possibilities that emerged. It was at this point that I started working in public space.

TW:
Did these activated static forms become the starting point of performances that moved from your body and on to Sports?

MK:
Yes, the more I worked this way, the more it became apparent that I was concerned less with the form and more with the actions as a way to express my ideas. As I focused on the actions I found that I was referencing many of the ones that I had seen or experienced through my involvement with sports.

TW:
I can’t see that. In the video (below) outside the Orioles stadium you seemed to collect Hi-fives (with a mostly dead pan look on your face) as though you were a spectator of sports fans themselves more so than the game. The video, a documentation of the hype that exists without a physical cue from the team’s actions but with your visual cue. A typical sports fans gesture of a simple high five. An action that activates a physical connection loaded with questions.



TW:
A game outside of the game or commentary on community within spectator-ship??

MK:
In the newer work, I am beginning to focus in a little more on the spectator-ship that exists in sports. It is amazing to me the way that sports/games have a way of creating commonality among groups of people.

TW:
Football or Basketball?

MK:
Well, I am interested in working with all different types of sports (games). However, being that I live in Upstate New York, these two, along with hockey, seem to get most of the attention.

TW:
Do you see a connection between athlete and fan and artist and viewer?

MK:
Yes, I do. In many ways the relationship between the artist and their audience is much like the way a fan follows their favorite athlete or team.

TW:
You were able to participate in one of Lee Walton's remote instructions projects, Let's Push Things Forward. How did that opportunity come together? Any awkward moments, with doing it in Baltimore?



MK:
There was an open call for participants posted on Walton’s website, and I simply applied. He was very personable in his emails, and the directions he provided were very thorough.

Shooting the piece was a lot of fun once we got started. A friend of mine at MICA was able to get a couple of her students to help, which really got the project started, and the rest of the people who participated we simply approached on the street. It is amazing to me how willing people are to do anything in front of a camera.

TW:
Has Lee Walton become a mentor or model for you, of what conceptual art could be? If so, how?

MK:
I have been following his work a lot over the last four years or so. For me, I find that his work remains very fresh, because it is constantly changing, which makes it exciting to follow.

TW: After looking at Lee Walton's drawings I read the essay "Drawing Baseball", by William C. Agee, 2005, he wrote,

"But Walton’s model of structural clarity, of the very architecture that he values so highly, has been, above all, the work of Richard Diebenkorn, a fellow Californian he has long admired."
-William C. Agee

TW:
Do you have any influences that I would find surprising?

MK:
There are many other artists besides Walton that I have been following closely over the past few years. I have been drawn to the work of individuals like Francis Alys, and Eriwn Wurm; as well as groups such as The Art Guys, and Harvey Loves Harvey.

TW:
The Checkout video filmed at Wal-Mart seems so different from the rest. It was as though the scanners beeps mimicked a heart monitor and the lens cap could be an eye opening and closing. How did you see that video functioning, could you tell me a bit about that day?

MK:
That video was meant to serve as a follow up to the piece “Honk”, which I did in Washington, DC. For that piece I walked around the National Mall, stopping and starting based on the frequency of car honks.

In the video “Checkout” I wanted to do something similar, but from more of a first person perspective. However, in Upstate New York people rarely use their car horns. The scanner beeps at Wal-Mart were the closest thing I could find to the environment that I had at the mall.

TW:
The Waiting project from 2007-2008 seemed to be an important performance for you. You and your BENCH. You documented it, posted it on a blog, and youtube. Then finally after 7 months and 3 weeks someone ended it by meeting you in Clinton square in Syracuse.

TW:
Usually women are the ones waiting. However cliché that is, do you have any comments on that idea?
HA,HA!

MK:
Well, I just find it interesting that with all the different modes of communication we have and with so many things being in “real-time”, we still spend a lot of time waiting. Also the time that we do spend waiting isn’t usually that long when you put it into perspective, it is just that we are so used to things happening instantly.

TW:
Sort of like E-mail.


For more information on Matt Keeney's video work visit, www.matthewkeeney.com .
And for updates and images from Tory Wright visit, www.torywright.com

Good times had by all.

Here's some pics from the Lump Benefit Friday night. Everyone had a great time, a lot of good friends came out to support the space (philosophically and financially), two great bands performed, and I am still tired. More pictures are available at the Lump Docket post, and Goodnight Raleigh.