Also making an online debut this week is Jonathan Yeo's 'Leaf Wallpaper'. Patrons of Soho House in Los Angeles, and of Yeo's current show with Lazarides in Beverly Hills will already be familiar with the apparently innocuous leaves, some less so of closer inspection revealing Jonathan's trademark pornographic collage work.
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At Lazarides we admittedly (albeit sheepishly) pride ourselves on the unconventional approach of our artists. California-based Sage Vaughn is yet another one.
Whilst his pictures use motifs often seen around this way - animals in Vaughn’s Wildlife series, superheroics in his Wildlives project – they are handled with considerable sensitivity and intelligence. In Wildlife the less-than-straightforward co-existence of nature and technology is portrayed in the most subtle of ways, via illustration that’s contemporary in the height. A seemingly simple picture of a bird perching on a branch, as a helicopter approaches, instantly bathes the viewer in all the mixed feelings one should have at seeing such a scene - but rarely stops to consider. In Wildlives, children in jury-rigged costumes and battle armour prepare for action, and a young worker, a frustrated shop clerk perhaps, dons a cape.
This all comes from a moustachioed gun nut. There are more surprises to Vaughn: “He thinks of art as a privilege, not a gift ... Vaughn approaches his studio at 9am and leaves at 6am unless he’s preparing for a show, when he never leaves. He is the only artist with a blue-collar mentality,” said Malibu magazine. And they should know.
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Also making an online debut this week is Jonathan Yeo's 'Leaf Wallpaper'. Patrons of Soho House in Los Angeles, and of Yeo's current show with Lazarides in Beverly Hills will already be familiar with the apparently innocuous leaves, some less so of closer inspection revealing Jonathan's trademark pornographic collage work.

