In conjunction with the current exhibition, Excavation, RAM is pleased to present a gallery walkthrough with artist Ali Vaughan.

In Excavation, each work is a meditation on the human mind and its marvels of the natural world. By mimicking or inventing natural order, each artist unearths a new system full of mystery and reveals a cosmological understanding conveyed through process and material. 

Join multimedia artist Ali Vaughan, whose work explores the connections between memory and geology, through the lens of the body, landscape, and industry.

Doors open at 10:30. Coffee and donuts. No RSVP is required.

Ali Vaughan is an artist born in Bakersfield, CA and currently based out of Richmond, CA. Working between sculpture, drawing, and painting with a variety of materials, including wood, cardboard, and steel, Vaughan subverts the materials’ typical practical or industrial applications while excavating their inherent physical properties. The work attempts to collapse the worlds of the internal (body, mind, self) and external (landscape, architecture, industry) through the transfiguration of material.

Vaughan received a BA with Honors from Stanford University and has been included in group shows at the de Young Museum, the Coulter Art Gallery, and the Stanford Art Gallery. She has participated in residency programs at Radio28 Creative Studios in Mexico City and The Steel Yard in Providence, RI, and has received the Lorenz Eitner Prize in Art and Art History and the Louis Sudler Award in the Creative and Performing Arts.