Titus Kaphar’s (Born 1976 in Kalamazoo, MI, US) work takes a critical interest in transgressive interventions in the narratives found in eighteenth to twentieth century European and American portrait paintings. Kaphar’s practice of formal manipulation of canvas by means of cutting, overpainting and reducing to sculptural refuse engages racialized narratives to undermine hierarchical roles of the past. Employing modernist gestures on pre-modern images, Kaphar constructs contemporary narratives that result from encounters between disparate images to defy a singular representation or history. Continue reading »
