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Honor Titus
Honor Titus, Henry Taylor, Durga Chew-Bose, Klaus Ottmann
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R608
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Honor Titus (born 1989) is an American artist who lives and works
in Los Angeles. A self-taught painter, Titus is deeply influenced
by his creative past as a musician and poet. Titus’s paintings,
often suffused with a sense of romance, are embedded with nostalgic
references to a simpler time and feature dark, luminous jewel
tones. His works often depict faceless figures in minimal urban
landscapes, reflecting the isolation that stems from metropolitan
anonymity. Titus’s simplified compositions and striking patches
of colour are inspired by Les Nabis while his flat, decorative
surfaces echo the graphic hyperrealism of artists inspired by
American advertising, such as Alex Katz. This, the artist’s first
trade monograph, presents new and recent works, including a body of
work presented in his 2022–3 solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor,
London, Bourgeoisie in Bloom. Here Titus expands on the themes of
ritual, class and nostalgia that have characterised previous work,
incorporating debutante balls in which young adults are presented
to society. Favouring bright panels of colour, Titus evokes
traditions of cultural formality, using precise brushwork to
delineate details of old-world glamour such as the tilt of a bow
tie and the line of a ballgown. A foreword by artist Henry Taylor
considers his first encounters with Titus’s work and their
continuing friendship. Taylor describes the biographical factors
that inform the subjects Titus paints, including music, referencing
the first solo show of the artist’s work held at Henry Taylor
Gallery in Chinatown, 2020. A text by Durga Chew-Bose brings the
themes of nostalgia and memory into the field of discussion.
Anecdotes relayed to Chew-Bose bring forward real experiences in
relation with his work. The artist’s own words illuminate filmic,
musical, photographic and romantic influences on the paintings,
while dwelling, lastly, upon his studio space. Klaus Ottmann’s
text reflects philosophically and sociologically on Titus’s
oeuvre, bringing key art historical reference points into the
discussion. Ottmann’s contribution draws connections to key works
of literature and criticism that contextualise his work. Published
following the exhibition Honor Titus: Bourgeoisie in Bloom at
Timothy Taylor, London, 17 November 2022 – 14 January 2023, the
publication has been edited by Chloe Waddington, designed by Joe
Gilmore, and co-published in 2023 by Timothy Taylor and Anomie
Publishing, London. Honor Titus (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is a
self-taught American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles,
California. Recent solo exhibitions include Honor Titus:
Bourgeoisie in Bloom, Timothy Taylor, London, United Kingdom
(2022–3); Spotlight: Honor Titus, The FLAG Art Foundation, New
York, NY (2022); Honor Titus: For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor,
New York, NY (2021) and Honor Titus: Goodness Gracious, Studio
Henry Taylor, Los Angeles, CA (2020). His work has been part of
numerous group exhibitions, including IRL (In Real Life), Timothy
Taylor, London, United Kingdom (2021); Parallel Worlds, Nassima
Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021); and I will wear you in my heart of
heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2021); and (Nothing
but) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY (2020), among others. His work is
represented in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,
Texas; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Rennie
Collection, Vancouver, Canada; The Bunker Artspace, Palm Beach,
Florida; and the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China. Titus has
been featured in publications including Art in America, Artnet,
Frieze, GQ, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, and Town &
Country.
This Tilted World Is Where I Live gathers one hundred poems by
Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this
witty, adept, and vital literary voice. Seventy-five poems appear
from his previous books, spanning from The Horse Show at Midnight
(1966) through The Flying Change (1985), which won the Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry, to his latest volume, Crooked Run (2006). The book
opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time.
From the beginning, Taylor has worked in both traditional and more
open forms, avoiding rigid allegiance to either mode as he has
responded to the world around him, from the horse farm in Virginia
where he grew up, to the deserts around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where
he and his wife Mooshe have lived for the past several years. In
tones and moods ranging between grief and explosive hilarity, these
poems confront a consistent set of themes. Taylor has long been
drawn to considerations of what we mean by loving one another, how
violence can intrude without warning into innocent lives, and how
the things we have always seen can change with the passage of time.
Gwendolyn Brooks once wrote that he ""is a truly important poet.
Familiar and strange."" This Tilted World Is Where I Live offers an
invaluable encapsulation of Taylor's knack for crafting poems that
are not only fun but also instructive in the art of paying
attention- of which he is a master.
'Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith' is a collection of past writings of
the newly-elected Pope on topics such as the ministry of priests,
eucharistic theology, non-Christian religions, and the role of the
Catholic Church in a secular world.
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