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THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT

The curious patterning and myriad perspectives of urban space became the meeting place for my disparate painting influences — rock art, crazy quilts, Western Realism, Eastern landscape painting, many modernisms and other influences. I use a patchwork of freehand techniques and painting/drawing media to depict a felt environment that is equally about architecture and absence.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Isaac Payne grew up in Tacoma, WA; studied painting at CUNY Queens College (MFA 05’) and the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA 03’). Isaac was 11 Month Affiliate Artist at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2011-2012).  Awards include: Charlotte Magazine’s BOB Award, 2013 Best Artist, 2013; First Place, ‘The Bicycle:  Art Meets Form’, 2013; People’s Choice Award, “Carolina’s Got Art”, 2013; Best Local Artist (Emerging), Creative Loafing, Best of Charlotte, 2012.  He was selected for International Painting Annual 5 (juried competition) 2015; New American Paintings 2010 Southern Competition. Recent exhibitions include the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art; The New Gallery of Modern Art; North Carolina Museum of Art.  He lives in Charlotte, NC; serves on the Board of Directors for McColl Center for Art + Innovation; teaches painting fulltime at CPCC.

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Solo Exhibitions

2016        Axom Gallery, Rochester, NY

2015        Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2014        Inevitable Architectures, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC

2013        Visual Places, Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury, NC

2012        New Works, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Works on Paper, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2011-2012

2010        Charcoal Cities, Green-Rice Gallery, Charlotte, NC,

2005        MFA Thesis Exhibition, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, Flushing, NY

 

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2015        Perspective (3 person show), Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, GA

Intersections, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC

2014        CONSTRUCT(S), with Matt Steele, Storrs Gallery, UNC Charlotte School of Art and Architecture, NC

2012        Interactive Landscapes: New and Collaborative Works, with Chris Watts, CPCC Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC

 

Selected Group Exhibitions   

2015        Line, Touch, Trace, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 2014-2015

Studio Party 15, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

2014        New to the Third, Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC

New Works, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2013        Group Show, MONA, Charlotte, NC

The Bicycle:  Art Meets Form (juried invitational), Theater Art Gallery, NC

Faculty Exhibition, CPCC, Charlotte, NC

Art Papers Art Auction, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Carolina’s Got Art (juried), July Salon, Elder Gallery

Studio Party 13, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

2012        Ether Ore, Gallery Twenty Two, Charlotte, NC

Art Papers Art Auction, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

Winter Exhibition, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC

Petite Et Local, Dialect Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Palate to Palette, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

High 5, Cabarrus Arts Council. Concord, NC

2011        Spring Fling, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

Transfusion, Charlotte Artery at the Gaines Brown Building. Charlotte, NC

You and Me, Waterworks. Salisbury, NC

Carolina’s Got Art Travelling show (invitational), Winston-Salem, NC, Sumpter, SC, and North Augusta, SC

2010        Drawing Revisited, Green Hill Center for NC Art. Greensboro, NC

Carolina’s Got Art (Juried) Atherton Mill. Charlotte, NC

Black, White and Easily Read,  Cabarrus Arts Council. Concord, NC

A Sense of Place. George A. Batte Jr. Fine Arts Center. Wingate, NC

2009        Faculty Exhibition, George A. Batte Jr. Fine Arts Center. Wingate, NC

Winter Show, Green Rice Gallery. Charlotte, NC

2008        Reflections (3 artists), George A. Batte Jr. Fine Arts Center. Wingate, NC

Faculty Exhibition, George A. Batte Jr. Fine Arts Center. Wingate, NC

2007        Miniatures, Benefit Auction, Charlotte Art League. Charlotte, NC

2004        Miniatures, Klapper Hall Gallery. Queens College, NY

2003        BFA Show and Top Twenty Exhibition, Rienberger Gallery. Cleveland, OH

ArtSNot, Euclid Arcade. Cleveland, OH

 

Honors/Awards/Residencies

International Painting Annual 5 (juried), 2015

Charlotte Magazine’s BOB Award, 2013 Best Artist, 2013

First Place, ‘The Bicycle:  Art Meets Form’, (juried), 2013

People’s Choice Award, “Carolina’s Got Art”, 2013

Best Local Artist (Emerging), Creative Loafing, Best of Charlotte, 2012

Concord Center City Mural Commission (juried), 2012

McColl Center For the Visual Arts, 11 Month Affiliate Artist in Residence, 2011-2012

New American Paintings, Southern Competition, issue #88, 2010

Wrobell Painting Scholarship, 2002

Sybil J. Gould Scholarship for Excellence in Drawing, 2000-2002

Mary Seymor Brooks Award for Excellence in Painting, 2001

Forensics: Facial Reconstruction, Full Tuition Scholarship, 2000

Honorary Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, 1999

Portfolio Grant, Cleveland Institute of Art, 1998 – 03

 

Publications

International Painting Annual 5 (Juried Exhibition in Print),  2015

Charlotte Observer, In the galleries: Revisiting, reconsidering and urban alienation, by Barbara Schreiber, April 13, 2015

Charlotte Observer, Gallery opens two new exhibits in uptown Charlotte, April 11, 2015

HappeningsCLT, In Studio with Isaac Payne, by Lisa Rubenson, April 8, 2015

Charlotte Observer, Charlotte artists’ drawings on view at NC Museum of Art’, By Cindy Schaefer, Oct. 10, 2014

Architects and Artisans, A Rare Look Into the Creative Process, Aug. 04, 2014
Charlotte Observer, Murals capture Concord’s history, essence, Friday, Nov. 01, 2013

Independent Tribune, Downtown mural pays tribute to Concord, Oct. 27, 2013

Creative Loafing, Best of Charlotte, Oct. 3, 2012

Creative Loafing, The Numbers Game at CPCC’s Ross Gallery, by Barbara Schreiber, July 06, 2012

Charlotte Observer, They’re Playing with Paper review by Lynn Tremming, Dec. 15, 2011

New American Paintings, Southern Competition, issue #88, 2010

Yes Weekly, Drawing Revisited review by Brian Crean, September 29, 2010

Shifter Magazine, Surface Tension, issue #6, 2006

 

Education

MFA, City University of New York at Queens College, Painting, 2005

BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Painting, OH, 2003

Rochester Institute of Technology, Summer Art Class, NY, 1997

 

Professional

McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 2013-present

Central Piedmont Community College: Full-Time Instructor, Visual Art: Painting, 2012-present

Wingate University:  Adjunct Professor, Visual Art, 2007-2011