Anthony Titus: "Ruptures and Reconciliations"

‘T’ Space Rhinebeck is pleased to present new works by the artist Anthony Titus. The gallery will be open to the public every Sunday from 12-5pm through September.

Artist, architect, and educator, 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…”

Anthony Titus was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, New York. His practice explores the uniquely constructed spaces between architecture, painting, and sculpture. Parallel to his art practice, Titus has taught architecture and art since 2002. He is currently a tenured professor of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and he is the recipient of a 2013 research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and a graduate degree in fine art from the University of Chicago.