Vaughn Spann - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York New York Monday, September 23, 2024 | Phillips
  • “As the viewer, you are looking at these paintings through various layers of pigment that are competing with one another, but finding harmony at the same time. That leads to a type of visual vibration that is also deeply meditative.”
    —Vaughn Spann

    Detail of the present work

    “I'm interested in thinking about the painting for painting's sake, but I cannot ignore these other issues and concerns that really affect who I am as a person. For me, it’s about tying them together and considering how to think about painting, tangility, time, motion, and all these different things that inform my practice.”
    —Vaughn Spann

    • Provenance

      Almine Rech, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Artist Biography

      Vaughn Spann

      Vaughn Spann is an American contemporary artist whose practice explores the natures of space, memory, and time using the ostensibly competing languages of abstraction and figuration. Approaching his work through traditional formalistic lenses focusing on line, color, and shape, Spann locates subjects from deeply personal spaces and articulates their essences on the painted surface, using metaphysical reflections to question our experiencing of the world around us.

      Spann uses painting to recreate encounters with people and places he finds compelling, gauging their essences when viewed through in retrospect. His experimentations with unconventional materials augments his explorations of personal and historical narratives. Spann lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, where he also received his MFA from Yale University.

       
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Aurora

signed, titled and dated "Vaughn Spann 2022 "AURORA"" on the reverse of the frame
mixed media and polymer paint on panel
56 x 73 in. (142.2 x 185.4 cm)
Executed in 2022.

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Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $95,250

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York

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