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The drawings (all 2014) are richly scored and battered papers that have been scraped with acrylic paint, sliced, stapled and zippered. Punched-out holes expose backsides painted with a skin of silver leaf. These are storm-tossed works. Their palette of Payne’s gray, blacks, and oceanic blues, together with patterning evocative of boat decks, suggests flickers of the artist’s emigration from Vietnam. But the dense, organic surfaces also chart journeys of linear discovery and spacial progression. Gestural planks dart around like hastily assembled scaffolding to hold aloft abraded patches of murky, collapsing sails of paint. We are at sea, upon the reckless craft of art.