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Night Gallery is excited to present Dalmatian Paintings, an exhibition of new work by Vaughn Spann. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

This new body of work continues Spann’s formal investigations of individual subjectivity, drawing symbolism from his own personal history. Here the artist meditates upon his childhood aspiration to own a Dalmatian. Having spent his youth in a New Jersey neighborhood surrounded by Pitbulls, German Shepherds, and other aggressive guard dogs, Spann began to see the Dalmatian (to which he was primarily exposed through cartoons or movies) as …