Oliver Payne: Untitled (John Cage / Shadow of the Colossus) March 14 – May 11, 2014 MediaPressEventsMoreSelect Reviews"A few years ago, 356 S. Mission Road opened here in LA, and they very kindly offered me a studio space one summer. The idea of going to a specific place to make objects or art was completely foreign to me. I've never had a studio and I work in a really weird way, through just absorbing loads and loads of shit for ages, letting it sit for a while, and slowly seeing what comes out of that. So I set up my video game consoles, a TV and a bunchof shit, and I'd go there, smoke week, do whippets, listen to music and think about shit. Nonstop thinking about shit. And I'd play Shadow of the Colossus and think about that, and I'd turn the sound down and play John Cage, and I'd think about that. And I'd think about the beauty between those two things, realizing that actually I'd got it all wrong; it's not two things, that doesn't explain it, it's one. It's a Rorschach, a butterfly painting; it's mirrored. Eventually they had enough of me coming in there, and basically doing what was perceived as nothing, and boxed up all my stuff. And the only thing I made that entire time I was there, the first time I'd ever had a studio, was this one crappy little drawing, which I had stuck on the wall. That drawing is essentially what the Shadow of the Colossus piece became, and in one of those beautiful turn of events that life sometimes provides, after I showed it at Herald St the piece returned to its spiritual home, and was shown in the basement at Mission Road." – Philip Watts for INVENTORY, Fall/Winter 2014"Theres a kind of telescoping that happens in the piece—a collapse of documentation, performance, and quotation into something that's not quite any of those." – David Matorin for Modern Painters, June 2014Past PressHow an Artist Turned Shadow of the Colossus Into a Rumination on ChanceKillScreen.com – November 7, 2013 Desert Bus May 10, 2014 Tape Crackers: a film by Rollo Jackson April 18, 2014 Oliver Payne Talks About Video Games March 27, 2014