Jeremy Vaughn
In Différance
September 2025My drawings emerge through delay and deferral, each mark contingent upon the next to complete its meaning. Layered and reworked, the surfaces register hesitation and persistence, establishing a rhythm of absence as much as presence. The exhibition title, In Différance, invokes Derrida’s notion of différance—the recognition that meaning is never fixed but perpetually deferred. Each drawing occupies an unsettled space, where revelation is always provisional and incomplete.
Approaching the studio without certainty allows the work to shape perception. These drawings foreground not representation, but withholding: the quiet intervals, unfinished gestures, and temporal pauses that structure engagement, inviting attention to what is implied rather than explicitly stated..
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