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2025 Jeary Payne
12025-04-15T14:38:18+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0841plain2025-04-15T14:38:18+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Jeary Payne (He/Him) is a graduate student at Columbia University, pursuing a Master’s degree in Oral History. He is a multi-disciplinarian artist, telling stories and creating art across mediums. Based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Phoenix, Arizona. He is a musician, writer, orator, and photographer. He’s interested in exploring the ways in which grief, loss and absences as well as love, time, space and memory interplay with each other through a Black visual lens and performance.
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1media/Screenshot 2025-04-11 at 10.56.46 AM.pngmedia/Screenshot 2025-04-15 at 10.59.44 AM.pngmedia/Screenshot 2025-04-11 at 10.56.46 AM.png2025-04-15T14:40:32+00:00On My Journey Now/A Man in Time (2025)8This installation piece is an immersive experience about grief and loss and absences but it is just as much about love and time, reverence and space and memory.plain2025-04-21T17:20:50+00:00Jeary Payne
By Jeary Payne
On my Journey Now/A Man in Time is an installation performance film about my mother reciting a poem, by Maya Angelou and my grandfather, Rev. Howard T. Smith retelling the time he traveled to Washington, DC to hear Martin Luther King, Jr speak at the Lincoln monument, 1963, during my grandmother’s 60th birthday celebration in 1995.
What it is really about is Black Collective Memory and how our shared histories, and the ways in which we all exist within a context— what I am referring to as Lineage. And how memory and story acting as markers of time are able to situate us within that context/lineage in relation to others and worlds (temporalities) around us, those intersecting with our own.
This in person exhibit opens April 25, 2025 at 6.30PM ET.
A NOTE FROM THE CURATOR: This is an in-person, private installation with limited seating and is accessible by invitation only. If you are interested in attending the event please email me directly at jp4335@columbia.edu
