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The Airy Nature Paintings of Sage Vaughn

Light and ethereal, Sage Vaughn's mixed media paintings zero in on birds and butterflies, endowing these creatures' lives with a rich subjectivity through a palette of pastel colors. Sometimes Vaughn (whose collages and tapestries we featured earlier this year) paints the animals on plain backgrounds, while other times the brightly-colored protagonists of his work fly over dusty backgrounds of an outside world subsumed by grey paint.

Light and ethereal, Sage Vaughn‘s mixed media paintings zero in on birds and butterflies, endowing these creatures’ lives with a rich subjectivity through a palette of pastel colors. Sometimes Vaughn (whose collages and tapestries we featured earlier this year) paints the animals on plain backgrounds, while other times the brightly-colored protagonists of his work fly over dusty backgrounds of an outside world subsumed by grey paint.

Many of the butterflies bleed dripping paint, perhaps a reminder to the viewer that they are a fictional creation of beauty, an idealization of the natural world. Zero + Publishing will release a book of Sage Vaughn’s work designed by Blaine Fontana of Fontana Studios. Check the Zero + Publishing website for news about the release date and take a look at some of Vaughn’s work, images courtesy of the artist.

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