Paper transformed into aluminum, LED lights, stock images from training videos, discarded textiles used for seating on public transportation. Fascinated by modularity and the formal vocabulary of minimalism, Jessica Vaughn’s investigations of materials present the sensuality of the matter that shapes everyday structures connected to race, labor, and space. Join University of Pennsylvania graduate students…

In Our Primary Focus Is to Be Successful, Jessica Vaughn engages with the physical structures that proliferate corporate culture to expose how everyday objects are laden with complex histories of class, race, and gender. Join University of Pennsylvania graduate students Tyler Shine and Narendra Haynes for an open conversation that expands on some of the…

In this open conversation, we explore how Jessica Vaughn uses the languages of sculpture and painting in tandem to engage with tangled histories of workspace culture in America. Taking as our starting points the foundation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1965 and the minimalist sculpture movement of the same period, we will pose…