The public is invited to celebrate the opening of St. Louis-based artist Vaughn Davis Jr.’s exhibition, The Fabric of Our Time. The opening includes a conversation between Vaughn Davis Jr. and Curator Dana Turkovic at noon in the Aronson Fine Arts Center.

Free to attend.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The Fabric of Our Time will be on view August 26 - December 17, 2023 and will feature recent and newly commissioned paintings, ceramics, and flags. The indoor and outdoor works will be presented in the Aronson Fine Arts Center’s Whitaker Foundation Gallery and in the Park’s Northern Grove.

Vaughn Davis Jr. rips, tears, and drapes pigmented canvases to transcend traditional notions of painting and push them into the realm of shape-shifting objects. His distress of materials refers to daily struggles and social protest, especially for Black and Brown communities. The pieces featured in the exhibition explore Davis’ visual vocabulary of dismantling the picture plane, illustrating the performative nature of painting, and testing its boundaries as moments cross into sculpture. Davis applies a similar tactile approach in his ceramic works, folding and splitting clay and using expressive glaze techniques.