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Virtual Tour of Virtual Identities, Real Space

Jonathan Vaughan

Tampa, FL

Untitled, 2007

Charcoal on Paper

In my work, whether printmaking, drawing, or painting, my focus remains fixed on the exploration of space and form, while seeking the undercurrent of natures more elusive qualities. Often direct references to historical imagery are incorporated into my pieces and even when they are not, the works become historized in their deployment of costume, coiffure, environment, and even materials. I offer to viewers an experience focused on aesthetic pleasure that is succulent and enjoyable, while whispering in their ears an eroticism born from more than just sex and nudity. Undulation, the movement of creation, creates flowing and dynamic compositions that thrust and swirl, capturing the viewer in the saturated confines of presented surface. These reactions to the commanding forces of nature (ie creation, chaos, and destruction) are embellished in my work predominantly in representative translation, but they also appear in a more subtle manner, that of ornamentation. My work creates an opportunity to discover in ornamentation more than simple artifice and spectacle and to see in it a visual response to the patterns and structures of nature.