Exhibitions

JOHNATHAN PAYNE: REGENESIS

Clough-Hanson Gallery (Rhodes College) / 2000 N Pkwy January 31 - March 27th (Reception: January 31 5:00pm - 7:00pm)

Johnathan Payne

Johnathan 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.