Vaughn Spann

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Vaughn Spann
Born1992 (age 3132)
Orlando, Florida, US
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Painter, Printmaker

Vaughn Spann (b. 1992, Orlando, Florida) is an American contemporary artist working primarily on printmaking and painting. [1] [2] His style moves between abstraction and figuration, and at times incorporates symbols such as the American flag or the letter X. [3] He lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. [4]

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Early life and education

Vaughn Spann was born in Orlando, Florida, in 1992. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 2014, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, in 2018. [5]

Work

Vaughn has been shown at the Rubell Museum, Florida; the Pérez Art Museum, Florida; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, and others. [6] [7] In 2020 he was one of Forbes "30 Under 30 in Art and Style" alongside Grace Lynne Raynes, Ilana Harris-Babou, Farah Al Qasimi, and Louis Fratino. [5] [8]

In 2020 he donated some proceeds from the sale of a print to Black Lives Matter. [9] The solo show Vaughn Spann: Trilogy was on view at Almine Rech gallery, New York, in 2023. The abundance of blues in his paintings have been associated with Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1864 poem “L’Azur.” [10]

In 2024, the Tampa Museum of Art displayed the one-person presentation Vaughn Spann: Allegories, a series of four large-scale mixed media prints on wood panels. Compositions in the show expanded on the artist's vocabulary such as the "X" shape in combination with art historical references. [11]

Collections

His work is held in institutions including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [12] Florida, as part of the institution's Fund for Black Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; [5] North Carolina Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, among others. [11]

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