Lump Gallery/Projects, at 505 S Blount Street, Raleigh, is introducing several new exhibits on July 2nd, 2021. The openings coincide with First Friday Raleigh, where you’ll find many arts events taking place around the city.
Here is information about the new exhibits, and the opening receptions, which are free to attend.
Is-New — new work by Jessica Langley
July 2nd to August 8th, 2021
Opening reception, Friday, July 2nd, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Jessica Langley’s creative tool set runs the gamut: foraged materials, fresco, digital prints, sculpture, collage. But the Colorado based artist uses these disparate methods with a single concept in mind – “intrinsic significance” – a kind of all encompassing interconnectedness that Aldous Huxley described at length in his legendary mescaline fueled text, The Doors of Perception.
Is-ness presents Jessica’s own version of the underlying fabric of space and time. Her collage paintings are visual renderings of abstract systems and networks, created in gouache, watercolor and ink, on paper made from mushrooms, cast onto scraps of ubiquitous blue polystyrene insulation. Through narrative tact and material mastery, Jessica forces harmony between repellent compounds and the respective ideological forces that they represent. She melds crisis and comfort, offering works that are soothing to the eye, and that indulge her obsession with mycology, the study of mushrooms, but that pull no punches when it comes to the true subject, Earth and our blatant disregard for it’s precarious natural systems.
Sticks and Stones — introducing Patricia Shaw
July 2nd to August 8th, 2021
Opening reception, Friday, July 2nd, 2021, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Patricia Shaw spent the bulk of her career as a much feared lawyer. Eventually, she became fed up with the unending, predacious maneuvers required by the job, so she checked out and focused all of her intensity on ceramics. She’s been making sculpture, no less maniacally, ever since.
In Sticks and Stones, Pat is bluntly allegorical. Good and evil are in a taught battle here, and the message comes en mass from an enormous taxonomy of ceramic grotesqueries, highlights of which are: eleven bodiless representations of vices and virtues and a vast series of tiny rocks-turned-characters that each express some version of every emotion under the sun.
There are too many pieces to even count, so Lump’s advice is to bring good shoes, pack a snack, and prepare to spend a significant amount of time in the uproarious world of Patricia Shaw’s creatures, great and small.
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