Lump is located at 505 S. Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601
Gallery hours: Saturdays noon - 5pm and by appointment during the week.
black damp new work by Lydia Moyer
Show run: June 4 - 26, 2010 Opening: Friday, June 4th 7 - 10pm
The work in black damp draws on the story of the town of Centralia, once a community of about 1600 people in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region. A fire has been burning underneath the erstwhile town for forty years and it is believed there is enough coal underneath it to fuel the fire for two hundred more. Moyer uses installation and single channel video to explore the strange story of Centralia and the experience of ownership.
black damp stems from a series of experimental non-fiction video works about the landscape of American tragedy. Focusing on sights that are largely un-sanctified, each installment attempts to recount and memorialize the narrative of a community that is generally not prioritized in national memory. Loss lies at the heart of the work.
Lydia Moyer is a media maker and visual artist who lives in Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree from Alfred University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Festival International de l’Image Environnementale in Paris. She runs the new media program in the art department at the University of Virginia.
Upcoming schedule July/August - gallery closed - Team Lump at AVA in Chattanooga, TN
We kick off our 15th season... September/October - Thad Kellstadt November - Lee Misenheimer December - Harrison Haynes & Tory Wright
