Lump is very pleased to present trash and other camouflage an exhibition of new work by Thad Kellstadt and Jesse McLean. Lump will host an opening reception Friday, October 5th from 7 - 11 during the First Friday Gallery Walk located in downtown Raleigh. The exhibition will run from October 5 - 27 and is on view Saturdays from noon - 5pm.
Garbage, diamonds, blood drips and boat trips.
Thad Kellstadt and Jesse McLean create structures from a variety of sources. Refuse, found footage and mental trash are revealed and hidden alternately to explore the idea of transformation.
With his sculpture and painting, Kellstadt creates a sense of multidimensional disorder. The work in this exhibition reflects on the teenage spirit, displacement, enlightenment, and modern rural mysticism. Natural yet uncomfortable, the images channel the past and present simultaneously, playing like a warbled field recording.
McLean’s Rough Diamonds, questions modern value systems by forcing unwanted material into the forms of five popular diamond cuts. Considered waste, these byproducts are abstracted into shimmering surfaces of video. In her Action Paintings, she contrasts abstract expressionist ideals against the bravado of popular action films. By using a video camera as a brush and action movies as paint, McLean swirls and streaks violent, hyper-masculine worlds into broad strokes of vivid color.
Kellstadt and McLean both hail from Chicago via Pittsburgh, where McLean is pursing a MFA at the University of Illinois.
Gallery hours: Saturdays noon to 5pm or by appointment during the week.
***November at Lump. Teenbeat 432 the graphic design work of Mark Robinson (Unrest/Air Miami/Grenedine/Teenbeat head honcho) You do not want to miss this one. Twenty-two years in the making. www.teenbeat.net ***
