After Thirty Years of Showing Art on the Edge, Bill Thelen Bids Goodbye to Lump Gallery
Since 1996, the small ciderblock gallery has been Raleigh’s mainstay for experimental art. On August 31, owner Bill Thelen is closing its doors for good.
“Abortion Stories USA” at Lump Gallery Is a Powerful Affirmation of Reproductive Rights
Abortion may have broad support in North Carolina, but even in an abundant age of content, representation of those rights feels increasingly fraught.
Love Lump? Thank Kelly McChesney, Who Is Retiring Her Flanders Gallery to Save It.
Some people talk big about art and engagement, scheduling “public” guest talks in unfindable classrooms in the middle of the week. Others walk the walk, making art engaging across all channelsorganizing exhibitions, facilitating public projects, and bringing artists and their work together with corporate, governmental, and academic entities. Kelly McChesney, who anchored a burgeoning Raleigh…
A Tale of Two Galleries: Raleigh’s Lump and Flanders to Merge
In a lot of ways, Bill Thelen and Kelly McChesney’s stories as gallery directors couldn’t be more different. But they have been subtly bending toward each other for years, which culminates in the merger of the two galleries under one name and director, functionally by the end of this year and officially in February. Thelen…
At Lump and Flanders Gallery, Harrison Haynes, Chris Watts and Aaron Fowler pierce the myth of the solo artist
CHRIS WATTS & AARON FOWLER: SO MUCH TO SHE Flanders Gallery 505 S. Blount St. Raleigh 919-757-9533 www.flandersartgallery.com Through June 2HARRISON HAYNES: ISOLATED TRACKS Lump 505 S. Blount St. Raleigh 919-889-2927 www.teamlump.org Through May 30 Two new shows at neighboring Raleigh galleries, Flanders and Lump, use vastly different means to draw on similar reservoirs of…
Jason Polan’s Please Trust Me at Lump Gallery
Please Trust Me Jason Pollan Lump Gallery Closes Nov. 28 Jason Polan has a project under way to draw every single person in New York City. It’s probably safe to assume that it’s an ongoing project. With that kind of ambition and a propensity for cranking out work in significant quantities, Polan might be expected…
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Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Twist/Barry McGee, Hanes Art Center Auditorium, UNC-Chapel Hill, Oct. 30; The Broken-Down Mysterious Doors of the Impossible, LUMP gallery, Nov. 1 Seven years ago, Bill Thelen and Med Byrd strategically bought a nondescript little building just a few blocks down from the gentrified City Market and Artspace. Then they divided it…
