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