Sage Vaughn

Presented by: Galerie Bertrand & Gruner


1976, Jackson, Oregon, USA

 

Sage Vaughn lives and works in Los Angeles. He mounted his first solo show in Europe at the galerie bertrand & gruner in 2007.

 

Contrasting the vitality and flamboyant hues of his foreground figures with the austerity and gray tonalities of the urban landscape seen in the background, Vaughn questions the human condition and the difficulty of living in the contemporary environment.

 

Forming a filter through which the viewer enters the paintings, the birds and insects serve as an affirmation of life. They also enable us to rethink the strategies of survival in modern society. In some works, children replace the birds in the foreground. Alternately superheroes and victims of a hostile setting, they seem to have the necessary energy to survive and even more, to reinvent the world.

 

Vaughn’s whole universe is present in his latest works, in which violence and gentleness exist side by side in a precarious balance.



Sage Vaughn, Sophie, oil on paper, 122 x 68 cm, 2007