Vaughn Davis Jr.

Vaughn Davis Jr. (b. 1995) is an artist whose practice expands abstraction through the physical deconstruction of painting. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, he approaches the canvas as both surface and object. Through pouring, soaking, tearing, folding, and creasing, he alters the support and allows gravity and tension to shape the work. His compositions sit between painting and sculpture and register movement, pressure, and change.

Davis Jr received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Webster University in St. Louis, USA. He has presented solo exhibitions at Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, USA; Dimensions Variable in Miami, USA; CAM.Contemporarie in Chicago, USA; and the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, USA. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at Nazarian Curcio in Los Angeles, USA; New Art Dealers Alliance; Tripoli Gallery in Sagaponack, USA; Malin Gallery in New York, USA; Philip Slein Gallery in St. Louis, USA; and the Front Triennial in Akron, USA. In Fall 2026, Davis Jr will be included in the Great Rivers Biennial in St. Louis, USA.