Photo By Gail

Artist Vaughn Spann’s figurative compositions are vivid in their palette and imagination. Brilliantly saturated canvases such as this painting  reflect the artist’s careful study of color, form, line and shape. His painted narratives, while dreamlike, are grounded in the complex realities of navigating life as a Black person. Basking  in the Wind (2019) evokes the duality of this experience with a two-headed Black figure seated next to a pair of black and white rabbits.

Photographed in The Brooklyn Museum as Part of the Exhibit Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys