Et al. is pleased to present a two-person booth with painters Rema Ghuloum and Jay Payton at NADA New York 2023.

Message aaron@etaletc.com for any inquiries.

About Jay Payton

Jay Payton (b. 1992, Atlanta, GA) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. His work contemplates the development of the human experience through research surrounding critical theory, technology, biology and a wide range of other the subjects. By using both familiar and non familiar mediums, he works to navigate the theory of abstraction and how it can be

visualized in the 21st century and beyond. Recent solo presentations of his work include exhibitions at April April, New York; Gern en Regalia, New York; Rørvig Contemporary, Denmark; Et al., San Francisco; and Mammal Gallery, Atlanta. Group exhibitions include Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Art in General, Brooklyn; Leo Gallery, Hong Kong; Syndkt, Mexico City; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta; and Camayuhs, Atlanta.

About Rema Ghuloum

Rema lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach in 2007 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Rema has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of multiple grants including the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Davyd Whaley Foundation Artist-Teacher Grant, and the Esalen Pacifica Prize. Rema’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Hyperallergic, CARLA, the Los Angeles Times, Fabrik, among others. Her work is included in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Works on Paper Collection at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco.

Words from our just-closed solo of Rema’s work

An index of color woven, translucent layers singing with and through each other; spectral stratum, a chorus of color. Rema’s work is heart-felt, joyous, devotional. The paintings sing.

There are spaces, often at the core of the canvas, where tones are entangled, vibrating together, flickering. While near the edge, daubs suggest something more than pure chance – the artist’s hand, brief/succinct decisions, breaths of fresh air, moments of release, the edges where our body meets another, a return to the world.