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Artist Jessica Vaughn Undermines the Narratives of Everyday Materials

Jessica Vaughn, 2019.
Jessica Vaughn, 2019.

Conceptual artist Jessica Vaughn uses the readymade tradition to confront issues of representation and documentation inside quotidian American infrastructure. Her familiar pieces examine both micro and macro power hierarchies within institutions of labor. The Brooklyn-based artist keeps coming back to data mined from her hometown of Chicago, reasoning, “It is important for the materials to relate to a specific social history I can speak to.”

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