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![This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Lavaughan Jenkins: Love Liberates](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jenkins_2024_LoveLiberates_Install07_hires-2048x1430.jpg)
Installation photo credit: Brica Wilcox
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 4 – 6 pm
Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to announce Love Liberates, Lavaughan Jenkins’s second exhibition with the gallery, on view July 13 to August 24, 2024.
An intrinsic understanding of the palpable materiality of paint and its manipulation underlies Jenkins’s approach to painting. Through exuberant impasto, an ingenious sense of color, and abstracted figuration, Jenkins creates a lush foundation of marks and brushstrokes by adding, scraping, and repeating luxuriant quantities of paint using brushes, palette knives, and his hands—working and reworking the surfaces while remaining open to fortuitous drips and spills. Forms and figures emerge, and frequently tumble over the edges of the canvas, and, in some cases, expand to occupy the space around the painting.
Love Liberates features Jenkins’s signature images of women, figurative three-dimensional paintings, and a selection of recent “Love Portal” paintings. The three series of interrelated paintings explore identity, memory, and the dualities that exist between our public personae and our private interior lives. Jenkins articulates the complex relationships between the visceral pleasures of paint application and the disquieting layers of personal memories buried in our psyche. By weaving together figurative and abstract works that in totality examine the self and related recollections, he addresses collective generational trauma, especially the violences experienced by Black women.
Poet Maya Angelou’s writing about love, connection, and trauma resonates for Jenkins, particularly in how we are all “only a mother apart” and how women have the power to change the world. As Angelou said in 2019:
Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.
Jenkins has also been influenced by Francisco Goya’s and Philip Guston’s impactful use of paint to convey authenticity, emotion, moral outrage, and social injustices. In particular, Jenkins admires how Goya astutely observes the inner states of women in portraits that capture each character’s essence. Working in the figurative tradition of Kerry James Marshall—whose silhouetted black figures portray and honor both historical and contemporary people—and Mickalene Thomas—whose work embodies Black womanhood in maximalist portraits composed of thickly painted passages embellished with rhinestones—Jenkins focuses on the history of painting and artwork that addresses social justice to emphatically claim the fullness of our humanity.
To achieve this, Jenkins has created a distinctive iconography. In the paintings featuring women, most frequently Black women, he highlights them as icons of resilience and beauty and complements them with lushly textured backgrounds of gridded ivory or other chromatic arrangements. For him, they are more than muses, they serve as powerful presentations of women usually absent from history. Depicted anonymously with gentle sweeps of paint effacing individual features, the women convey charisma, poise, and power through their stance and their apparel. Referencing specific people in Jenkins’s life or celebrity icons, the women—dressed in attire that showcases the influence of Black culture on fashion—are often accompanied by Jenkins’s talismanic figures of protection which sit in the lower corners of the canvas.
These “protectors” or “watchers,” as Jenkins refers to them, guard the memories that each canvas holds. Existing as sculptures, the three-dimensional watchers Jenkins calls “Nigel” stand and witness the women and portals. Comprised of multiple layers of thick swirls and sweeps, appearing like the twirls of cake frosting or billows of whipped cream, where instead of sugary vanilla tones, the shades range from midnight-black, red-black, rusty umber with bright splotches of yellow or pink, cohering into a humanoid figure with both feet firmly planted and arms hanging at rest. The emotionality of the figures suggests how the watchers facilitate the recall of memories from our subconscious.
Like Jenkins’s female figure paintings and the watchers, the “Love Portals” act as a record of moments and reminders of lost loves and past relationships. Vividly abstract, the shifting color spectrums and radiating vortexes within each work are carefully calibrated in resonance with each of the painting’s specific memories, which the titles then allude to. These abstracted memory portals represent a more interior, intimate side of one’s identity. Jenkins considers these paintings a physical manifestation towards awe, the sublime, and the grotesque, in contrast to a digitally saturated world. A meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and tenderness, introspection and expectation, the portals suggest joy and intimacy, but also despair and fear all at once.
Jenkins’s intention to convey the fullness of human experience is echoed in the richness of the materials. The teeming, gorgeously abundant materiality of paint and color convey joy and love, and the intense physicality of the works impresses with the fervor of feeling as we consider watching and being watched, connecting with others to share or turning inward to our own most joyful and tragic memories, embracing the fullness of human experience in a deeply painful moment in history.
“Just Another Day,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1093
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Just Another Day." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1093_1720898748.jpg)
“Just Another Day,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1093
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Big Momma Thang,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1099
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Big Momma Thang." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1099_1720831172.jpg)
“Big Momma Thang,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1099
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“We Became Everything You Couldn't,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1098
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "We Became Everything You Couldn't." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1098_1720831185.jpg)
“We Became Everything You Couldn't,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1098
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“We fit good together,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1069
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "We fit good together." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1069_1720831200.jpg)
“We fit good together,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1069
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“What Are We Hoping For,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1109
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "What Are We Hoping For." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1109_1720831213.jpg)
“What Are We Hoping For,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1109
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“What Are We Hoping For,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1109
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Computer Blue,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1089
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Computer Blue." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1089_1720831230.jpg)
“Computer Blue,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1089
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Together Again,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1100
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Together Again." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1100_1720831243.jpg)
“Together Again,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1100
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Momma You Did Your Job,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1097
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Momma You Did Your Job." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1097_1720831256.jpg)
“Momma You Did Your Job,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1097
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Shut Up and Talk,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1107
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Shut Up and Talk." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1107_1720831290.jpg)
“Shut Up and Talk,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1107
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Shut Up and Talk,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1107
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Stand Strong,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1096
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Stand Strong." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1096_1720831307.jpg)
“Stand Strong,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1096
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Kaylee,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1090
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Kaylee." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1090_1720898777.jpg)
“Kaylee,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1090
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Broken Crayon,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1110
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Broken Crayon." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1110_1720831322.jpg)
“Broken Crayon,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1110
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Broken Crayon,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1110
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Shortened Childhood,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1105
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Shortened Childhood." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1105_1720831340.jpg)
“Shortened Childhood,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1105
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Shortened Childhood,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1105
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Erotic Cabaret,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1084
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Erotic Cabaret." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1084_1720898793.jpg)
“Erotic Cabaret,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1084
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“We almost made it through movie night,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1070
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "We almost made it through movie night." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1070_1720831356.jpg)
“We almost made it through movie night,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1070
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Those Good Morning Pics and Good Night Pics,” 2023
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1064
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Those Good Morning Pics and Good Night Pics." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1064_1720831369.jpg)
“Those Good Morning Pics and Good Night Pics,” 2023
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1064
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“The Weight of Your Skin,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1106
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "The Weight of Your Skin." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1106_1720831391.jpg)
“The Weight of Your Skin,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1106
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“The Weight of Your Skin,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1106
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Sam, Jake, and Me,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1104
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Sam, Jake, and Me." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1104_1720831402.jpg)
“Sam, Jake, and Me,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1104
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Sam, Jake, and Me,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1104
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Seen and Heard,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1108
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Seen and Heard." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1108_1720831414.jpg)
“Seen and Heard,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1108
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Seen and Heard,” 2024
Oil paint and acrylic paint over wire, mesh and plaster
21" x 6" x 6" [HxWxD] (53.34 x 15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1108
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Caged Bird with Brave Words,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1101
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Caged Bird with Brave Words." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1101_1720831426.jpg)
“Caged Bird with Brave Words,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1101
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Dancing on the Kitchen Floor,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1086
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Dancing on the Kitchen Floor." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1086_1720831441.jpg)
“Dancing on the Kitchen Floor,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1086
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Tomorrow is Taking Too Long,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1085
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Tomorrow is Taking Too Long." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1085_1720831455.jpg)
“Tomorrow is Taking Too Long,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1085
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Vinyl store plans, I got you Metallica,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1071
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Vinyl store plans, I got you Metallica." This artwork was created in 2023-2024 and measures 61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1071_1720831467.jpg)
“Vinyl store plans, I got you Metallica,” 2023-2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
61" x 50" x 6" [HxWxD] (154.94 x 127 x 15.24 cm)
Inventory #JEN1071
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Lighthouse,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1132
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Lighthouse." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1132_1720898827.jpg)
“Lighthouse,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1132
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“I Live in Brooklyn Baby,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1128
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "I Live in Brooklyn Baby." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1128_1720898839.jpg)
“I Live in Brooklyn Baby,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1128
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“The Thrill,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1126
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "The Thrill." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1126_1720898851.jpg)
“The Thrill,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1126
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Just Text Me,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1124
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Just Text Me." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1124_1720898862.jpg)
“Just Text Me,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1124
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“A Chilly Night in Brooklyn,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1130
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "A Chilly Night in Brooklyn." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1130_1720898879.jpg)
“A Chilly Night in Brooklyn,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1130
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Lovers Loop,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1125
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Lovers Loop." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1125_1720898891.jpg)
“Lovers Loop,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1125
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“FaceTime in Brooklyn,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1131
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "FaceTime in Brooklyn." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1131_1720898905.jpg)
“FaceTime in Brooklyn,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1131
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“I'm Your Tomorrow,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1127
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "I'm Your Tomorrow." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1127_1720898921.jpg)
“I'm Your Tomorrow,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1127
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Day Dreaming on Somers Street,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1129
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Day Dreaming on Somers Street." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm). Its medium is Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1129_1720898932.jpg)
“Day Dreaming on Somers Street,” 2024
Oil over foam and acrylic on wood panel
14" x 11" x 3" [HxWxD] (35.56 x 27.94 x 7.62 cm)
Inventory #JEN1129
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Brica Wilcox
“Adore,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1092
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
![This image depicts an artwork by Lavaughan Jenkins titled "Adore." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil on panel.](https://vielmetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Lavaughan-Jenkins_JEN1092_1720831482.jpg)
“Adore,” 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 24" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (76.2 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm)
Inventory #JEN1092
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
About the artist
Lavaughan Jenkins was born in 1976 in Pensacola, Florida, and lives and works in Boston. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2005. In 2022, Jenkins was the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. In 2019, Jenkins was awarded the James and Audrey Foster Prize by the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston. In 2016, he was named Emerging Artist of the year at Kingston Gallery in Boston, MA, Jenkins is a recipient of the 2015 Blanche E. Colman Award and in 2002 received the Rob Moore Grant in Painting. He has exhibited his work most recently at venues such as the University of Alabama Birmingham (Birmingham, Alabama), Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston), The Painting Center (NY), Suffolk University Gallery (Boston), and Oasis Gallery (Beijing). His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.