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OLS January 2014
Mind connect is a steel sculpture of five intersected books in vibrant colors. The sculpture, which is six feet tall, was originated to embrace our diverse cultural environment and unite the arts of creativity together. Mind Connect is an inspirational piece showing the unified spirit characterized in the way our minds connect with books. The sculpture serves to bring enlightenment to the community as well as to the Warr Acres library setting.
Artist randy Vaughn grew up in Tulsa, OK, and became fascinated with classic cars and metal art as a child. His work reproducing classic car parts and fabricating sheet metal parts for the oil and aerospace industries also led him to explore abstract steel sculpturing. Randy’s first public sculpture, Memories commemorates the life of Oklahoma basketball star and jazz artist Wayman Tisdale and is on display at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa. His sculpture, Endurance, is also displayed her in Oklahoma.
Story by Oklahoma Library Systems
Elevation Magazine
Jimmy V. March 2013
Randy Vaughn is known as a leading steel abstract fabrication artist. He is a new artist coming into the world of art, for steel sculpturing. He was represented at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, with his first public sculpture, “Memories” a magnificent piece of the renowned former NBA player and Jazz artist Wayman Tisdale Sr. and most recent sculpture named “Endurance” created with the Oklahoma City thunder in mind Born in Abernathy Texas, in 1963 Randy moved to Tulsa with his family during his early childhood attending an honor school in Tulsa, he became fascinated with the art of metal and the love for classic cars. His artistic style and reputation spread beyond his hearts dream of his passion bringing life to creative visionary art.
After many years of fabricating custom ornamental gates and reproducing classic car parts, he mastered paint and body in the automotive industries, then he started working in the oil field and aerospace industries fabricating sheet metal components made of numerous types of metals, he expanded his creativity when people started requesting steel structures like a 22 ft bridge and other diverse steel objects which allowed Randy to bring all of his multi metal talents into one and create a new style of steel sculpturing that brings life and passion to any art piece. Randy is a disciplined unique artist, he takes an art project and becomes the project, by feeling the passion in the idea, of a place or thing to make sure he has embraced the masterpiece to achieve the passion a images of hope deserves.
Tulsa World
Stephon Pingry September 2013
Randy Vaughn, a metal artist, poses with his sculpture and mural at the Sankofa School. STEPHEN PINGRY / Tulsa World
Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:00
BRAVETTA HASSELL World Scene Writer
Randy Vaughn laughs when he calls himself a boring man, but his work shows otherwise. When he's not working on planes, he's building fences and other landscape features in some of the area's most exclusive neighborhoods. When's he's not building fences, he's sculpting, and throughout, he's smoothing his hands across sheet metal. It's his medium of choice.
Vaughn can't wait to start some new projects like the ones he's already done. He's dedicated a sculpture to Wayman Tisdale and made an ornate cake stand for his niece's wedding that featured a string of pearls. He created an installation of human-sized piano keys at the Sankofa Middle Creative and Performing Arts Charter School that seem to grow straight out of the wall. And, as recently as this summer, he created an impressive sculpture dedicated to the Oklahoma City Thunder that made TV news when Vaughn completed it.
"I want to create a new wave of sculpture," Vaughn says of an art form he compares to automotive body work. Unlike with bronze, you can add color, which Vaughn says gives his works a more realistic look. Vaughn spoke with us about what he wants to see more of in Tulsa, the importance of art in city spaces and what he often finds himself listening to.
… Hoping to see in Tulsa in the next five years? They need more art in downtown Tulsa, because it brings more life to an area. It needs to be more to give it more of a settled feeling so when you go into the area you think, man this is beautiful — it’s enhancing the area.… listening to? Not much radio. Different sermons — T.D. Jakes. A lot of your religious music.… inspired by? Anything unique — I love metal. There are too many ways you can take a cold piece of steel and bring such life to it.… living by? I try to do right. I try to treat people right.… doing as a favorite pastime, outside of working with sheet metal? Traveling — I enjoy just being able to drive down the highway. Just get in the car and go. It’s quiet time to me, when I’m driving down the highway.… doing as far as restaurants in Tulsa? Texas Roadhouse. Sometimes Mahogany Prime Steakhouse.… hoping to see more of in Tulsa? I would like to see a lot more development in the river area. Tulsa is the only area around — they’ve got one of the best rivers and they don’t utilize it, and if they would utilize it, that would make Tulsa just so much better.