[1][2] His style moves between abstraction and figuration, and at times incorporates symbols such as the American flag or the letter X.
[6][7] In 2020 he was one of Forbes "30 Under 30 in Art and Style" alongside Grace Lynne Raynes, Ilana Harris-Babou, Farah Al Qasimi, and Louis Fratino.
[9] The solo show Vaughn Spann: Trilogy was on view at Almine Rech gallery, New York, in 2023.
The abundance of blues in his paintings have been associated with Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1864 poem “L’Azur.”[10] In 2024, the Tampa Museum of Art displayed the one-person presentation Vaughn Spann: Allegories, a series of four large-scale mixed media prints on wood panels.
Compositions in the show expanded on the artist's vocabulary such as the "X" shape in combination with art historical references.