Barbara Vaughn photographs still harbors around the world, close-cropping images of the water’s surface to create large-scale, abstract images. The varying textures and angles of reflection change with the environment and time of day, yielding images that range from bright, hot color fields to softer, contemplative palettes. Vaughn has a unique way of finding painterly moments with these accomplished compositions that always surprise and delight.

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b. 1960, Philadelphia, PA. Currently resides in New York, NY & San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION
1982 Princeton University, BA, Romance Languages & Literatures
1991-93 International Center of Photography, New York City

SELECTED SOLO + GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Liminal Realities, KMR Arts, Washington, CT

Heat and Light, Gallery of Century Association, New York City

Time and Tide, The Bay Model, Sausalito, CA

2021 Upon Further Reflection, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

Beyond the Sea, Quogue Gallery, Quogue, NY

Art in Isolation, Gallery of The Century Association, New York City

All Together Now, KMR Arts, Washington, CT

2020 Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Apart Together, KMR Arts, Washington, CT

Love Letter, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

2019 About Water, Hybrid Art, Budapest, Hungry

Woman Artists of the Century, Gallery of the Century Association, New York City

Elements, KMR Arts, Washington, CT

2018 Mayday, KMR Arts, Washington CT
2017 Uncharted Waters, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lion Woman Man Water, Etihad Modern Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Nude, KMR Arts, Washington, CT
Abstract Expressionism, Quogue Gallery / Fritz Porter, Charleston, SC
2016 Water I Bodies, Southampton Art Center, Southampton, NY
Synthesi, KMR Arts, Washington, CT
Double Vision, Anne Reid Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2015 On the Surface, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Optasia, Quogue Gallery, Quogue, NY
Ifasma, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2014 Waterscapes, Quogue Gallery, Quogue, NY
2013 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
Swell, Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2011 Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barth’s
2007 Mondo Incognito, Palette Art, Healdsburg, CA

2006 American Beauty, Benefit Auction, International Center of Photography, New York City
2000 State of Undress, 45 Bleeker Gallery, New York City
Bare Stories, Taranto Gallery, New York City
1996-2010 Take Home a Nude, Benefit Auction, New York Academy of Art, New York City

PUBLISHED WORKS

2020 Stay Inspired - Shelter in Place, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
2015 Kinetic: Highlights from the Polsinelli Art Collection, Barbara O'Brien
2014 Tory Burch: In Color, Abrams Books
Places to Go, People to See, Kate Spade, Harry N. Adams
2010 Interior Portraits, Victoria Hagan, Rizzoli
Interior Portraits, Victoria Hagan, Rizolli
“Love’s Labour’s Won,” Vogue Magazine, February
2007 Mark Rennin, Dore Ashton, Editions Enrico Navarra
2005 Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery
Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson- Johnston, ISI Books
2001 “Revealing Furs,” Avenue Magazine, December
1999 Letter from the Editor, Allure Magazine, May
1998 Kodak Professional advertising
1997 Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Times Books
L’Art à la Plage, Enrico Navarra Gallery

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 "On the Surface," American Art Collector, May.
2013 “Photographer Barbara Vaughn Inspired by Water”, San Francisco Chronicle, May.
2012 “Frame by Frame”, Vogue Magazine Greece, September.
2006 “How Other Women See Your Body,” Marie Claire Magazine, March.
2000 Nerve / The New Nude, Chronicle Books
“Forever Young,” Avenue Magazine, November
1998 “Nude Awakenings," Allure Magazine, June.