Titus Kaphar

Titus Kaphar reworks the conventions of representational painting through physical interventions in its surfaces and supports. Cutting, covering, crumpling and removing parts of an image become ways to question whose presence is emphasized and whose history is obscured. His practice includes sculpture and film as well as painting, with the history of representation remaining a central concern. The studio archive groups works by processes such as cutouts, whitewash and wrapped paintings, giving readers a practical route into the relationship between technique and meaning. His gallery documentation situates the work in the New Haven studio and provides exhibition context. Compare the altered surface of a painting with what remains visible underneath or around it: the intervention changes not only the picture but also the viewer's position in relation to its subject.