Anthony Titus: "Ruptures and Reconciliations"

Artist, architect, and educator, Anthony Titus is showing works that originate from poetry excerpts from Richard Wright’s "Haiku". Titus’ monochromatic compositions conflate surface and structure, a longstanding concern in architecture, that allows the paintings to break away from their frames into gravity-defying compositions. Through the successive layering of paint, Titus transforms crumbled, draped, and wrapped canvas into rigid structures of mysterious materiality and radiant color. Titus describes the process of making the works as “a cycle of making, unmaking, and remaking” that closely mirrors how “the current social fabric seems to be coming apart…”