Vaughn Spann: Lineage is the first museum exhibition of the artist’s abstract paintings. It will feature a wide range of works from Spann’s ongoing series of Rainbows, Dalmations, Xs, and Flags. These deep and rigorous works use textured mixed materials, paint, and explosive colors, delving into expressionist and conceptual concerns related to tropes of black identity and aesthetics in art, history, race, politics, popular culture, and personal and collective memory.