Into the Quantum Foam
Jay Payton
SEPTEMBER 5 TO OCTOBER 17, 2021
Installation view.
Jay Payton. Days Without Sun, 2020. Oil, charcoal, and graphite on canvas. 29 x 21 inches.
Jay Payton. Days Without Sun (Detail), 2020. Oil, charcoal, and graphite on canvas. 29 x 21 inches.
Installation view.
Installation view.
Jay Payton. Orion's Belt as Seen From Salisbury Plain, 2021. Vinyl, wood, mylar. 54 x 76 inches.
Jay Payton. Orion's Belt as Seen From Salisbury Plain (Detail), 2021. Vinyl, wood, mylar. 54 x 76 inches.
Jay Payton. Orion's Belt as Seen From Salisbury Plain (Detail), 2021. Vinyl, wood, mylar. 54 x 76 inches.
Jay Payton. Orion's Belt as Seen From Salisbury Plain (Detail), 2021. Vinyl, wood, mylar. 54 x 76 inches.
Installation view.
Jay Payton. Time Capsule No. 1, 2021. Oil, aluminum, and charcoal on board. 11 x 8 inches.
Jay Payton. Time Capsule No. 1 (Detail), 2021. Oil, aluminum, and charcoal on board. 11 x 8 inches.
Installation view.
Jay Payton. A Cardinal Perched on a Burning Pine, 2021. Oil on board. 11 x 8 inches.
Installation view.
Jay Payton. A Compressed Reality. Evidence of Forward Development., 2021. Oil paint, aluminum and glue on found foam. 41 x 72 inches.
Jay Payton. A Compressed Reality. Evidence of Forward Development. (Detail), 2021. Oil paint, aluminum and glue on found foam. 41 x 72 inches.
Jay Payton. A Compressed Reality. Evidence of Forward Development. (Detail), 2021. Oil paint, aluminum and glue on found foam. 41 x 72 inches.
Installation view.
Installation view.
Jay Payton. Conversations With Enzo Even Though He Can’t Talk Back…It’s Better That Way (1 of 5), 2021. Palo Santo on Rives paper, artist's frames. 14 x 60.25 inches overall.
Jay Payton. Conversations With Enzo Even Though He Can’t Talk Back…It’s Better That Way (4 of 5), 2021. Palo Santo on Rives paper, artist's frames. 14 x 60.25 inches overall.
Jay Payton. Conversations With Enzo Even Though He Can’t Talk Back…It’s Better That Way (3 of 5), 2021. Palo Santo on Rives paper, artist's frames. 14 x 60.25 inches overall.
Jay Payton. Conversations With Enzo Even Though He Can’t Talk Back…It’s Better That Way (4 of 5), 2021. Palo Santo on Rives paper, artist's frames. 14 x 60.25 inches overall.
Jay Payton. Conversations With Enzo Even Though He Can’t Talk Back…It’s Better That Way (5 of 5), 2021. Palo Santo on Rives paper, artist's frames. 14 x 60.25 inches overall.
april april presents its inaugural exhibition Into the Quantum Foam by Jay Payton.
In residence, smears and signals track pathways toward an afterward, a couple lengths into an immeasurable space-time, three million bubbles foaming en masse. What remains—questioned time again—or rather, what points converge to coalesce; to sit and gather; to accumulate and dispense slowly? Like glaciers crumbling crust, clearing earth and refracting light, a melt and freeze into spittle on sand.
The foam finds itself at the outset, a residual offering or evidence. Jay Payton paints to record, each work a material convergence, a reckoning of here nor there, gesture and the slow measure of sedimentation.
Jay Payton (b. 1992, Atlanta, GA) received his MFA from California College of the Arts and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo presentations of his work include Gern en Regalia, New York (2021); Delaplane Gallery, San Francisco (2021); Rørvig Contemporary, Denmark (2020); Et. Al, San Francisco (2019); and Mammal Gallery, Atlanta (2018). Group exhibitions include Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2020); Art in General, Brooklyn (2019); Leo Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); Syndkt, Mexico City (2019); Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta (2018); and Camayuhs, Atlanta (2018), among others.