Los Angeles-based artist Sage Vaughn is best recognized for his Wildlife series depicting beautifully rendered butterflies, flowers, owls and sparrows against melancholic ciy scenes. His art examines the balance between life and death, and the relation between man and nature. “To me that line between nature and city life is always ebbing and flowing, with the two forces constantly influencing each other,” says Vaughn, “You see it in coyotes running out onto the freeway and grass growing out of pavement — its this contunual push-and pull that echoes a conflict within us, the collision between our own feral side and the need to control ourselves so we can exist as part of civilization.” Largely self-taught, Vaughn's artistic roots are in graffiti and street art, but he's gone on to widely acclaimed solo shows in New York, LA, Geneva and London.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Falling Upward, Thelma Sadoff Center For The Arts, Wisconsin, US
2014 Nobody's Home, Lazarides, London, UK
2011 Children Of A Lesser God, Lazarides, London, UK
2010 Human Nature, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Kim Light / LightBox, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, CA, USA
2009 Nobody’s young, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2008 Native Sons, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Outside the wall, Los Angeles, USA
2007 FTW, The Dactyl Foundation, New York, USA
2007 Wish you were here, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 ...and the damage done, Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, CA, USA
2005 Where Eagles Dare, Warren Dactyl Foundation For the Arts and Humanities, NY, USA
2005 Reseda vs. The World, 1269 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2012 Transmission LA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011 Open Space, Known Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Group Exhibition, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 ArtBrussels, Art Agents, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Outsiders, Lazarides, London, UK
2008 Works on Paper, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Summer Group Show, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
ReInstallation:Scion Art Series, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Untitled, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2003 Chrysalis Leaps Ahead, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Publications
2013 Ice Age,poetry by Anthony Anzalone, Zero + Publishing
2013 Message, forward by Evan Pricco, KillYour Idols Inc.
2007 "wish you were here", texts by James Jolliff, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva