New Dawn (Marked Man) centers on a boldly rendered orange cross that floods the composition with a visceral sense of exposure and vulnerability. This hand-embellished archival pigment print belongs to an ongoing series by Vaughn Spann rooted in a defining personal encounter: being stopped and searched by police. The cross, or "x," functions simultaneously as a target and a mark, its densely layered brushwork radiating outward with the kind of charged energy that resists easy resolution. Spann approaches abstraction not as a retreat from subject matter but as a means of deepening it, allowing the formal language of the work to carry the psychological weight of racial profiling in ways that direct representation could not. Spann's practice spans painting, drawing, and print, consistently returning to questions of resilience, freedom, and the Black experience in the United States across generations. His work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, among others. This edition of twenty, with five artist proofs, is personally hand-embellished, signed, and numbered, making each impression a singular object within a limited release. A portion of proceeds from each sale supports the Brooklyn Museum directly, an institution Spann has spoken about with genuine affection as a space where historical depth and contemporary conversation coexist with intelligence and coherence. Prospective collectors should be aware that the artist requires all buyers to sign a two-year no resale agreement before the work is dispatched. This condition reflects Spann's investment in where his work lives and how it circulates, and speaks to a broader intentionality around access and stewardship that runs throughout his practice.