Roberts & Tilton Gallery
5801 Washington Blvd
323.549.0223
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Titus Kaphar: Mother (2008, oil on canvas). Courtesy of Roberts & Tilton
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Opens Saturday Sep 12, 2009 (6–8pm)
Sep 12, 2009 – Oct 10, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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In his first independent exhibition at Roberts & Tilton, Titus Kaphar rewrites history. By slashing, draping, arranging, and painting his work, the Michigan-born artist creates contemporary narratives out of important periods in time, building his stories from a combination of art history artifacts and a unique perspective. While Kaphar's work reinterprets the past, his final pieces suggest that he is both destroying and constructing a new one. One can only imagine what formerly stood in place of a torn piece of canvas, for example, or whose portrait once occupied a regal gilded frame. Overall, the collection presented in Reconstruction stresses the importance of the role of the "writer" in how history is formed and perceived.
