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ABOUT AARON PAYNE FINE ART
Established in 2000, Aaron Payne Fine Art is a gallery specializing in 20th and 21st Century modern masterworks. Our areas of focus include American Modernism, African American Art, The Stieglitz Circle, New Mexico Modernism, Postwar and Contemporary Art. We also have a long history with the American Abstract Artists and both European and American Surrealism.
Some of our favorite works don’t fit into any category.
Aaron Payne has expertise in areas he has explored for almost thirty-five years, but is always compelled to work with art he loves.
What Aaron Payne Fine Art also purveys is an experience and opportunity to develop new perspectives. We offer a unique way of looking at art and the art market as well the chance to participate in and engage with both in new and meaningful ways.
We hope you will join us, here on my website, at the gallery, in my office by appointment, or out in the world looking at art at fairs, auctions and wherever we can find it. -
Alma Woodsey Thomas
“Man’s highest inspirations come from nature. A world without color would seem dead. Color is life. Light is the mother of color. Light reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world through colors.”
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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color from Reel Plan/Jon Gann on Vimeo.
Aaron Payne is thrilled to be a part of the 2021 groundbreaking documentary, "Miss Alma Thomas”.“Miss Alma Thomas” is the first documentary film that explores Thomas’ incredible life through the lens of curators, art specialists, scholars, and her family, and features award-winning actress Alfre Woodard as the voice of Alma Thomas. Released in 2021 in conjunction with the major four-city museum retrospective, Everything is Beautiful, thousands had the opportunity to learn of her life, work, and continuing influence.To date, “Miss Alma Thomas” has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide. -
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Alma Woodsey Thomas"Atmospheric Effect No. 6", 1972
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Alma Woodsey Thomas"Raspberry", circa 1972
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Alma Woodsey Thomas"Snoopy Gets a Glance at Mars", 1969
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Alma Woodsey ThomasBlue Opus II, 1962
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ABOUT AARON
My love of art comes from my parents and from my earliest memories of growing up in Los Angeles. At home I was surrounded by the artworks of Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, John Outterbridge, Suzanne Jackson, Betye Saar and other contemporary African American artists. As a child, I went to many gallery openings, and a lot of these artists were friends of my family and guests in our home. Some of my best memories from childhood are visits to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) with my mother.
"For me, art has always been a space where I can connect with my own inner life in a way that is not dictated by anyone. When you are with an artwork, there are no rules, no expectations. All we have to do is listen. I love art because is represents Courage. I love art because it is something that any person can engage with in their own way. It brings together people from every demographic, nationality and background in a way that nothing else can. Anyone and everyone can have their own relationship with art."
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MY PERSPECTIVE
Blogs • News • Exhibitions-
Giving Thanks for Art, Travel, Food, Nature . . . and Thanksgiving
NEW YORK & DENVER November 21, 2023 -
More Adventure • Less Convention
Santa Fe April 27, 2023 -
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Los Angeles January 31, 2023 -
The Perspective of Adventure
Colorado & Paris January 10, 2023
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The Summer Season Commences
New Space • New Website • New ExhibitionWe have some exciting news to announce. NEW SPACE After 13 years on Marcy Street, Aaron Payne Fine Art closed its doors in 2019 and moved to Lena Street to... -
The Return
Welcome to our new space on Lena Street 3 June - 30 September 2023Selected works and recent acquisitions by Modern, Postwar and Contemporary artists. Artists featured include: Beauford Delaney, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Larry Bell, Lee Mullican, Marion Sampler, vanessa german, Zanele Muholi, Shirley Goldfarb and many others. -
Aaron Payne on Antiques Roadshow
Nashville • Santa Fe • Woodside • Baton Rouge • RaleighAaron has appeared on two Antiques Roadshow segments -- in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee. He has just completed filming two more -- in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and... -
The Magic Formula
Venice October 27, 2022
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