Join Cadfab Creative and Art Luxe Los Angeles on Thursday, January 12th, 2023 from 6PM – 9PM to kick off Pat Payne’s solo exhibition, “Works From The Memory Hive,” a collection of Afro-futurist paintings celebrating black life and archetypes of feminine power.
A fine art installation will be available from 1/4 – 2/1/23. Please contact for purchase information.
Pat Payne aka The Velvet Hammer is an omnicreative artist who enjoys creating stunning works of beauty in all mediums and disciplines. She is Caribbean-American multi-media installation/performance artist, poet, visual artist, and self-avowed troublemaker. Her paintings are visual time capsules that show multiple stories simultaneously, through collaged timescapes.
Her use of vibrant colors, and layered images is heavily influenced by her heritage, bicoastal identities, and love of storytelling. She shifts the canvas as she paints, adding vignettes that create complex portraits of family folklore and feminine spiritual power.
Born in Brooklyn and now based in Los Angeles, Pat Payne’s visual art has been exhibited in California’s Museum of Latin American Art, Avenue 50 Studio, Self-Help Graphics, Tonalli Studios, and GiganticArtSpace (GAS) in New York.
Best known as the reigning, two-time Taos Poetry Circus Heavyweight Champion, this is her first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles.
THE MEMORY HIVE series by LA-based artist Pat Payne, are visual time capsules that show multiple stories simultaneously, through collaged timescapes. Her vibrant, layered images are heavily influenced by her Caribbean-American heritage, bicoastal identities, and love of storytelling. She shifts the canvas as she paints, adding vignettes that create complex portraits of family folklore and feminine spiritual power. Her paintings are bright snapshots of memory through time that are both seductive and puzzling. The fragmented moments, symbols and disoriented gravity in THE MEMORY HIVE’s Afro-Surrealist paintings entice viewers to construct their own narratives and memories for the figures they’re most drawn to.
Inspired by her mentor, multimedia artist Faith Ringgold and her love of Octavia Butler’s science fiction, The MEMORY HIVE exhibition showcases the evolution of the artist’s style over time, as the coded language of her paintings emerged. Born in Brooklyn and now based in Los Angeles, Pat Payne’s visual art has been exhibited in California’s Museum of Latin American Art, Avenue 50 Studio, Self-Help Graphics, Tonalli Studios, and GiganticArtSpace (GAS) in New York. Best known for her award-winning spoken word performances, this is her first solo gallery show in Los Angeles.
