Vaughn Spann @ David Castillo Gallery
He incorporates visual and tactile references throughout his work which elicit a tension between abstraction and figuration. Never quite rendering the body, Spann suggests a human presence hidden throughout formal gestures of color and texture.
The artist’s works point towards a cycle of art, politics, and personal experience as the inseparable and mutually co-created elements of contemporary existence.
Spann’s bodies of work mine the histories of art, activism, and the discourses of social practice to reflect upon their inextricable relationships. Vaughn Spann was born in Florida (1992) and lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. He received his BFA from Rutgers University (2014) and his MFA from Yale University (2018).
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