I like riding my bike down through the bywater and stopping at each of my favorite bars along the way like BJs, Bud Rips, J&J, etc. I drink a beer, tip my bartender, and move on to the next. Enjoying my ride, the light buzz, and some tunes in between each stop. But no trip is complete without a trip to Vaughn’s. When I moved here in 2020, and everything was shut down I spent a lot of time exploring on my bike. It was always real quiet out, and one ordinary day I rode up Lesseps and heard a brass band getting louder as I approached the intersection at Dauphine. They were playing out on the corner by this place which I had to double take to even realize it was a bar. It was my first time seeing a band out like that, and witnessing the joy it brought to all the folks gathered around the street dancing. It was a very refreshing site given the solitude of Covid. I’ve since visited many times, but I’ll always remember Vaughn’s for that surprise brass band on a summer evening long ago and now I’m sharing this art and story with you.
Adam Newman
Vaughn's PoBoy and Seafood
2025
Line and wash watercolor with color pencil
11x14"
Shipping cost: $20.00
Artist + Adam Newman
Follow this artistAdam Newman (b. Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1984) currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a painter and installation artist known for his works created from a hypothetical perspective the artist refers to as “God view” in which he examines man-made reality and our human response through the eyes of God.
Newman’s artistic identity centers on the objective of investigating man-made objects and sociological constructs through an earthy colored palette used to create contemporary landscapes, figures, and thought provoking three dimensional pieces. The artist presents themes of vulnerability, social violence, scarcity, and an idea he calls “10% hope” through imagery that contrasts and personifies natural and synthetic elements within scenes of magical realism. His use of these recurring motifs are enriched by the incorporation of varying degrees of free association. A practice carried on from his earliest work in 2019, which he translated his subconscious into two dimensional realism. Newman has moved on to more relevant content in which he hopes to encourage social and economic change.
Newman’s work has exhibited at venues such as The Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee; The Edgar Degas House in New Orleans, Louisiana; Studio Gallery in San Francisco, California; and Brea Gallery in Los Angeles. Newman has also installed large scale murals across the southeast in Nashville, Knoxville, and New Orleans.
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