Scorched Earth and The Weeping Sun: Vaughn Spann @ Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo www.juxtapoz.com

The great run continues, as the New Haven, CT-based painter has caught the eye of Takashi Murakami and kicked off the Tokyo exhibition season with Scorched Earth and The Weeping Sun on view at Kaikai Kiki Gallery through September 21, 2019.
And I feel it would be a disservice to limit those ideas to one framework."
In Scorched Earth, you see mostly Spann's abstraction work, focusing on the way materials can play a major role in the way figures and shapes take form on a canvas.
And Spann is looking heavily at the balance of how is abstraction can create its own narrative.
All images Kaikai Kiki Gallery, 2019