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How to depict the fracturing of language, humour and a reverence for nature in a world filled to the brim with utter lunacy? That is a persistent question dogging Riley Payne’s practice, and one that drifts around the eight new paintings presented in Ocean Size, at Tops Gallery’s Madison Avenue Park space.
As elusive and impatient as the modern attention span, these works offer up multiple readings through the use of instantly recognizable reference imagery. Yet the moment an interpretation is settled on the cards are reshuffled — through proximity to a neighbour painting, a slight tweak that the title conjures or by stepping back and viewing the exhibition as a whole, installed on a deep navy star-scape flanked by walls of dusty red and calming yellow.
A scene of romance gives way to one of a warming climate; a calming ocean tries its hardest to stabilize the pink skeleton tip-toeing along its ripples;…
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How to depict the fracturing of language, humour and a reverence for nature in a world filled to the brim with utter lunacy? That is a persistent question dogging Riley Payne’s practice, and one that drifts around the eight new paintings presented in Ocean Size, at Tops Gallery’s Madison Avenue Park space.
As elusive and impatient as the modern attention span, these works offer up multiple readings through the use of instantly recognizable reference imagery. Yet the moment an interpretation is settled on the cards are reshuffled — through proximity to a neighbour painting, a slight tweak that the title conjures or by stepping back and viewing the exhibition as a whole, installed on a deep navy star-scape flanked by walls of dusty red and calming yellow.
A scene of romance gives way to one of a warming climate; a calming ocean tries its hardest to stabilize the pink skeleton tip-toeing along its ripples;…
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