2025
Regenesis
Curated by Joel Parsons
Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College
Memphis, TN
January 31 - March 29, 2025
Payne, an alum of Rhodes College now based in New York, works at the intersection of drawing, collage, embroidery, beadwork, and painting. Labor-intensive processes allow the viewer to trace his hand as he animates the cool rationality of the grid with exuberant color and texture. The result is a suite of varied but connected abstractions that evoke sacred geometry, textile histories, and utopian aesthetics. Taken together, they create an expression of marginalized identity that transcends the literal depiction of the figure.
Regenesis, Installation view
2025