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| Titus Kaphar photographed February 28, 2013 in New York City. BlackArtistNews photo. All rights reserved. |
Major talent adds weight to hefty roster at Jack Shainman
BlackArtistNews | May 30, 2014
BlackArtistNews has learned that Jack
Shainman now represents Titus Kaphar. The artist may appear to be a rookie
amongst the gallery’s elite register of established veterans El Anatsui, Kerry
James Marshall and Carrie Mae Weems, but his protean talent has proven he's a heavy
hitter well prepared to join their league.
From tituskaphar.com:
Titus
Kaphar was born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He currently lives and works
between New York and Connecticut, USA. His artworks interact with the history
of art by appropriating its styles and mediums. Kaphar cuts, bends, sculpts and
mixes the work of Classic and Renaissance painters, creating formal games and
new tales between fiction and quotation.
From the
essay “Intricate Illusion” by Bridget R. Cooks, PhD:
Kaphar
works hard to present the appearance of the truth in painting as his first
effect. His paintings offer something familiar to draw the viewer in and, at
the same time, offer a deformation. Within a few moments of approaching one of
his works, it is clear that something is not quite right. The viewers must
labor to deduce what exactly is going on. The persistence of change in Kaphar’s
work mimics the revelation of inherited narratives within personal and
collective histories that explain how our present constructed as deceptively
simple truths: the past, like the present, is complex, sloppy, and
contradictory; our understanding of history as an easily consumable narrative
is often an intricate illusion. The fact that histories have multiple points of
view is a given for Kaphar, and his work offers these perspectives for the
viewer both to experience and reveal.
Click here to read complete text
for “Intricate Illusion” published on the occasion of the exhibition Titus
Kaphar: Classical Disruption, February 17 – April 2, 2011, at Friedman Benda,
New York.
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