Vonn Cummings Sumner (born 1976 in Palo Alto, California) is an internationally exhibited American painter.
The arts writer John Seed, writing in the Huffington Post in 2013 described Sumner's work this way: [Sumner's]"paintings that form a kind of personal Commedia dell'Arte, whose main actor has a tragic, muted air.
Sumner is wise enough to know how to engage you in his theater and also smart enough to stand back and let you react on your own terms.
Echoes of Bay Area painting, flavors gleaned from Morandi, Guston and Magritte and a hint of Buster Keaton come together in his recent works through the filter of a sly, discerning intelligence.
"[4] Sumner was involved in a dialogue with artist Shane Guffogg and others in the non-profit space, Pharmaka in Downtown Los Angeles.