Sage Vaughn

Sage Vaughn’s work negotiates the boundaries that lie between the city and the wilderness by depicting a series of pastoral characters against an indistinct metropolitan backdrop. The markings we have adapted to distinguish ourselves (gang/group affiliations, clothing, etc.) are transposed onto animals in order to articulate the collective desire of all living things to find a way to distinguish themselves from the din of their/our surroundings. He populates his narrative with characters that are at once whimsical and threatening, inviting and grave, as they struggle to reconcile their innate instincts for love communication and survival in modern civic life. Vaughn has exhibited his work internationally.