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   Where does Titus Kaphar live?

   • But the artist Titus Kaphar wants to shift the narrative to a part of the city little known to outsiders, a once-thriving historic African-American neighborhood called Dixwell where he and his family have lived for more than a decade.

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   Who is Titus Kaphar?

   • Titus Kaphar was born in 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His first introduction to art was in a junior college art history course, and he taught himself to paint by visiting museums. He received his BFA from San José State University in 2001 and his MFA from Yale University.

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   What is Mr Kaphar known for?

   • Mr. Kaphar is known for appropriating images from American and European art in order to subvert them, cutting them into his canvases to pull back the velvet curtain of history. He wields materials like tar, wire, gold leaf and nails to unearth the past’s inconvenient truths, and to shine a restorative light on those residing in the shadows.

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   How did Mr Kaphar discover art?

   • Mr. Kaphar did not discover art until his mid-20s, when he was trying to impress a young woman named Julianne, now his wife. He registered for an art survey class at a junior college in California and was outraged when the professor announced that they would be skipping over the “black people in art” section.

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   Does Kaphar openly solicit gentrification if he is a philanthropist?

   • “He doesn’t openly solicit,” said Barbara Shuster, a New York philanthropist and collector. “Because of his personality and his earnestness,” she added, “you hear about what he’s creating and want to be a part of it.” Mr. Kaphar and his team are well aware of the tripwire of gentrification.

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   How did Mr Kaphar create a black girl?

   • Mr. Kaphar layered European characters onto a canvas, then peeled them back, creating space for a black girl, dressed in velvet and pearls, to emerge alongside a powerful contemporary woman. The girl breaks through layers of paint, and with it, the patriarchal and monoracial currents in the Western canon.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Titus_KapharTitus Kaphar - Wikipedia

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   Titus Kaphar is an American contemporary painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include African-American subjects. His paintings are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art , Brooklyn Museum , Yale University Art Gallery , New Britain Museum of American Art , Seattle Art Museum , Mississippi Museum of Art ...

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   Apr 12, 2019 · Mr. Kaphar and his wife live about three blocks from NXTHVN with their sons, Savion, now 12, and Daven, 10; they selected the neighborhood “so the kids would be able to see reflections of...

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   Titus Kaphar (b. 1976, Kalamazoo, Michigan) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kaphar received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is a distinguished recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2018 Art for Justice Fund grant, a 2016 Robert R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist grant, and a 2015 Creative ...

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6. galeriemagazine.com › titus-kaphar-gagosian-showHow Titus Kaphar Is Capturing the Times with His Powerful Art

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   Oct 8, 2020 · This month, for his first solo exhibition at Gagosian, Kaphar is presenting an entirely new body of work, made up of surreal, saturated landscapes that demonstrate a marked shift in his practice. Titled “ From a Tropical Space ” the works on view are firmly situated in the contemporary.

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7. gagosian.com › quarterly › 2020/05/04Titus Kaphar: In the Studio | Gagosian Quarterly

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   May 4, 2020 · Jacoba Urist reports on a recent trip to the artist’s studio in New Haven, Connecticut, to see his new body of work, From a Tropical Space (2019–). She writes on the emotional and sensory impact of these paintings and considers their singular place in Titus Kaphar’s oeuvre. From a Tropical Space. Titus Kaphar, From a Tropical Space, 2019 ...

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8. www.nprillinois.org › 2024/10/24 › for-painter-titusFor painter Titus Kaphar, forgiveness is 'a weight lifted off ...

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   Oct 24, 2024 · Contemporary painter, sculptor and installation artist Titus Kaphar is known for taking classical forms of art and deconstructing them to reveal hidden truths that challenge historical narratives. His 2014 painting, " Behind the Myth of Benevolence ," for instance, peels away a portrait of Thomas Jefferson to reveal the face of Sally Hemings , a woman who Jefferson enslaved.

9. www.npr.org › programs › fresh-airFresh Air for Oct. 24, 2024: Painter Titus Kashar on ... - NPR

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   Oct 24, 2024 · For painter Titus Kaphar, forgiveness is 'a weight lifted off of your shoulders'. Kaphar draws on his own painful relationship with his father in his film, Exhibiting Forgiveness. He says the ...