Articles by Lincoln Hancock

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Low on the southeast side of downtown Raleigh stands a nondescript grey building with a facade marked by four orange letters: LUMP. This cinderblock outpost houses the Lump gallery and …

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 28, 2010

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 28, 2010

One of the most striking things about the new West Building at the NC Museum of Art is its curatorial strategy. From almost any vantage point in the gallery, the …

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

What does it mean to live and work as an artist in the South? It would be foolhardy to suggest there is a single, unified answer to this question. I …
A Bird, Not a Feather

Lightness

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 22, 2010

Lightness

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 22, 2010

In a lecture delivered at Harvard in 1985 (posthumously published in Six Memos for the Next Millenium), Italo Calvino describes lightness as expressive of a certain kind of possibility in …

Thoughts on the Practice

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 19, 2010

Thoughts on the Practice

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 19, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LhaL6vajc] I spent yesterday with two of my oldest friends. At ten, Ben and Neill came over. We’d cleared our schedules to hang and create material for A Weavexx Yuxtapongo. …