https://honortitus.com Honor Titus | Paintings Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:24:46 +0000 https://honortitus.com en https://honortitus.com/Honor-Titus-Moral-Imaginations Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:24:46 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Honor-Titus-Moral-Imaginations Honor Titus’s Moral Imaginations Klaus Ottmann2023 Originally published in Honor Titus (2023), pp. 64–67, co-published by Timothy Taylor, New York, and Anomie Publishing, London. Reproduced with permission. Read the original PDF · Publication details Observer, philosopher, flâneur—call him what you will; but whatever words you use in trying to define this kind of artist, you will certainly be led to bestow upon him some adjective which you could not apply to the painter of the eternal, or at least more lasting things, of heroic or religious subjects. Sometimes he is a poet; more often he comes closer to the novelist or the moralist; he is the painter of the passing moment and of all the suggestions of eternity that it contains. —Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”1 I call any creature “happy” that can love […] I wholly deny that the impressions of beauty are in any way sensual; they are neither sensual nor intellectual, but moral. —John Ruskin, Modern Painters2 The portraiture and genre scenes of everyday life by the poet, musician, and self-taught artist Honor Titus share the emotive, intimist quality of paintings by the turn-of-the-century artists known as Les Nabis. Titus has acknowledged the French Nabi artists Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Félix Vallotton, as well as Edward Hopper, the American painter of unfulfilled longing or nostalgia, and the stylized portraits by Alex Katz and Kehinde Wiley as influences. Bonnard, Vuillard, and Vallotton were among those artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who, influenced by the flat colors and bold patterns of Japanese prints as well as the teachings of Paul Gauguin, embraced decoration as a primary function of painting, challenging the traditional boundaries between the decorative and fine arts. Like Bonnard, Titus is a “music-maker of color,” to use an expression by Duncan Phillips, who founded the first American museum of modern art in 1921, The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., and considered the paintings of Bonnard a link between Impressionism and Expressionism: Each of his pictures is a personally chosen fragment of a world full of animation and loveliness. Each is a fastidious record of some immediate and intimate visual occurrence to which his eye, mind, and hand had been at one time or another dedicated. Bonnard is […] as significant a revelation of our times as Cubism and far closer to the fundamentally emotional core of art.3 Like Bonnard, Titus’s paintings bring us closer to the emotional core of contemporary life. As the French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot wrote in his notebook: Reality is part of art, but it is feeling which makes it whole […] Faced with any particular landscape or object, we are moved by a certain elegance or grace. We should never let go of that emotion.4 The world evoked in Titus’s paintings is grounded in the style of the past, yet it is decidedly timeless. They are at once engaged with art history, in a Nabi-like romance of everyday life to the point of banality (what Baudelaire called a “forme banale de l’originalité”), and narrating moral tales of social longing. Titus’s paintings are invested with an air of cinematic melancholy and forlornness, depicting places of solace and solitary figures at leisure—playing tennis, reposing in a flowering meadow, or sitting at the shore of a lake at sunrise. His most recent body of work, Bourgeoisie in Bloom, with its focus on debutante and cotillion balls, brings to mind the society paintings of James Tissot who, like no other artist of the late nineteenth century, embodied the spirit of the Baudelairean modern painter and celebrated (mostly female) beauty and fashion while at the same time mocking the vulgar affectations of the Parisian upper class. Titus’s debutante paintings may have been inspired by the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (one of the “Big Four” debutantes of the Chicago social scene during World War I) that produced one of the greatest novels of the Jazz age, The Great Gatsby. Depicting both white and Black debutantes, Titus reminds us that debutante balls, or cotillions, which became popular in England in the late eighteenth century as a means to introduce marriageable young woman to eligible bachelors, were not exclusive to the white upper classes. The first official Black debutante ball took place in 1895 in New Orleans. Titus’s Black debutantes inevitably call to mind E. Franklin Frazier’s controversial sociological study on the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, which attempted a demystification of the “world of make-believe into which the black bourgeoisie can escape from its inferiority and inconsequence in American society.”5 And it would be remiss not to mention here Mlle Bourgeoise Noire (Miss Black Middle Class), a persona created by the artist Lorraine O’Grady for an impromptu performance in 1980 at the New York avant-garde gallery Just Above Midtown, who wore a costume made of 180 pairs of white gloves and a white cat-o’-nine-tails decorated with white chrysanthemums. Like O’Grady’s performance, Titus’s paintings can be read as both a celebration of societal acceptance and a reminder of racial oppression. As in Titus’s previous exhibition, For Heaven’s Sake, the decorative backgrounds in his new paintings carry the same weight as the figures: the white chrysanthemum fireworks in the dark-blue sky and the marbled balustrade behind the woman wearing a black dress and white long-sleeved evening gloves who looks wistfully toward the viewer in Shimmering Jubilee (2022, p. 57), or the black and white striped wallpaper and balloons behind the dancing couple in Dance with Dizzy (2022, p. 45). Titus’s egalitarian attention to decorative elements brings to mind Maurice Denis’s famous statement that “it is well to remember that a picture—before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote or other—is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.”6 Like Vallotton’s 1898 Intimités, his series of voyeuristic woodcuts that explores the complicated dynamics of intimate relationships, Bourgeoisie in Bloom both celebrates and unmasks the disquieting ritual of young women being thrust into their social “blooming.” With this new body of work, Titus demonstrates that he is not merely a laudator temporis acti (one who praises past times), but a painter who understands the “moral meaning of colour, of contour, of sound.”7 In An Essay on Man, his introduction to a philosophy of symbolic forms, the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer has written: In every age and in every great artist the operation of the imagination reappears in new forms and in new force. In the lyrical poets, first and foremost, we feel this continuous rebirth and regeneration. They cannot touch a thing without imbuing it with their own inner life. Wordsworth has described this gift as the inherent power of his poetry:To every natural form, rock, fruits or flower,Even the loose stones that cover the highway,I gave a moral life …But with these powers of invention and of universal animation we are only in the anteroom of art. The artist must not only feel the “inward meaning” of things and their moral life, he must externalize his feelings. The highest and most characteristic power of artistic imagination appears in this latter act.8 Percy Bysshe Shelley, in “A Defence of Poetry,” had already recognized this ethical basis in imagination: The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination … .9 In Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus one finds one of the most significant statements made on art in the early twentieth century, in parenthesis no less, almost as an aside: “(Ethics and aesthetics are one).” It relates to an earlier remark by Wittgenstein jotted in his 1915–16 notebooks: The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [in relation to the eternal]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.10 The archetypal psychologist James Hillman sees this eternal connection between aesthetics and ethics as one that brings us together with the cosmos itself: How does your own particular aesthetic response connect with the cosmos? To begin with, the Greek word kosmos is originally an aesthetic term; [. . .] [it] means that all things are on display, show themselves, and are presented to the senses [. . .] Thus your aesthetic responses are cosmological, not merely personal [. . .] Our aesthetic responses are inherently related to the actual world and to the primary way that we take part in it. To suppress these responses is to cop out of the political, that is, out of the common, shared world. My final point is that ethics alone is not enough to make a change in the world. Alone, ethics without aesthetics doesn’t hold [. . .] beauty evokes love.11 Hillman connects Wittgenstein’s notion that any creative practice has to contain an ethical component, and any political activism, an aesthetic component, to a cosmically felt sense of beauty that is based on a shared love of, and care for, the soul of the world. Titus is a painter who, like Bonnard and Corot, is gifted with a poetry of the soul that nourishes his prose of ordinary life. His unique style of creating a moral tension between abstraction and figuration endows art with soul while grounding it firmly in life. A poetical “rewriting” of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus by the young Danish poet Signe Gjessing, Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus, published this year in English, begins with: 1The world looks out,then arises, in beauty.1.01Here is the world.1.011Reality slips right through here.1.0111Possibilities discoverreality’s shortcut:The world arises.12 In Honor Titus’s paintings, the world looks out, then arises in beauty. Notes “The Painter of Modern Life,” in Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, translated and edited by Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon Press, 1964), 4. ↩ John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume II, (Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1888), preface to the re-arranged edition (1883), xiii, and part III, section I, chapter II, 11. ↩ Duncan Phillips, “Pierre Bonnard,” Kenyon Review 11 (Autumn 1949), 563. ↩ Art in Theory, 1815–1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 535. ↩ E. Franklin Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie (New York: Free Press, 1997), 174. ↩ “Définition du Néo-Traditionnisme,” in Maurice Denis, Théories: 1890–1910 (Paris: L. Rouart et J. Watelin, 1920), 1; my translation. ↩ “The Salon of 1859,” in The Mirror of Art: Critical Studies by Charles Baudelaire, translated and edited by Jonathan Mayne (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956), 234. ↩ Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021 [1944]), 154. ↩ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poems, Essays, and Letters, edited by Ellsworth Barnard (New York: Odyssey Press, 1944), 540. ↩ Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tagebücher 1914–1916,” in Werkausgabe in 8 Bänden (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984), 1: 178 (October 7, 1916); my translation. ↩ “Aesthetics and Politics,” in Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, vol. 2: City &amp; Soul (Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2006), 153. ↩ Signe Gjessing, Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus, translated by Denise Newman (London: Lolli Editions, 2022). ↩ Back to Selected Press https://honortitus.com/Royal-Collection Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:22:37 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Royal-Collection Royal Collection Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, 2023 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f3c61bbc6d88967667a823e1d0a4895695b0c4cc10954ab1a7209dfdb14ab58/HTKingCharles.jpg" data-mid="252010689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f3c61bbc6d88967667a823e1d0a4895695b0c4cc10954ab1a7209dfdb14ab58/HTKingCharles.jpg" /> Honor Titus with His Majesty King Charles III at Buckingham Palace during the presentation of Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by His Majesty King Charles III, Honor Titus painted Delisser Bernard as part of Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, a series of ten portraits honoring pioneering members of Britain's Windrush Generation. Bernard, an RAF veteran who sailed to Britain aboard HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, is portrayed with an emphasis on fortitude, dignity, and reflection. Titus employed the language of classical portraiture while placing Bernard against a nocturnal field, giving the image a sense of stillness and enduring presence. The portrait entered the Royal Collection and was exhibited at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Exhibition history 2023 — Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh 2023–24 — National Portrait Gallery, London Selected references Royal Collection Trust — Portrait of Delisser Bernard Royal Collection Trust — Windrush portraits The New York Times — Honor Titus profile https://honortitus.com/Selected-Press Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:28:54 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Selected-Press Selected Press Selected criticism, conversations, reporting, and museum texts. FEATURED READINGHonor Titus’s Moral ImaginationsKlaus Ottmann · 2023A catalogue essay on painting, beauty and the moral imagination.Read the essay → &nbsp; Original PDF The New York Times“From Punk Band to Portraits for a King to Gagosian: Honor Titus Breaks Out”July 18, 2023 Interview“Honor Titus and Henry Taylor Get Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty”January 21, 2021On painting, artistic freedom, and the inspiration Titus finds in Andy Warhol. Racquet“Honor Titus x Antwaun Sargent”August 31, 2025In conversation with curator Antwaun Sargent about new work, including Louis Malle Practice. Frieze“Work in Progress: Honor Titus”August 2, 2024 Dazed“Honor Titus’ paintings celebrate the elegant pageantry of athletics”October 14, 2021On sporting ritual, historical imagination, and beauty, revisiting Titus’s response to Andy Warhol. The Week“Interview with Honor Titus”Emily Steer, April 6, 2023 (via Timothy Taylor) Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University“Honor Titus, Portable Prince”The museum places Portable Prince alongside collection works exploring similar themes, including Barkley L. Hendricks’s Bahsir (Robert Gowens). The Art Newspaper“Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions”Gareth Harris, June 22, 2023 The Guardian“Windrush generation celebrated in a series of 10 portraits”June 22, 2023 British Vogue“Artist Honor Titus Talks Punk and Painting Ahead of His First London Exhibition”November 7, 2022 GQ“Meet Honor Titus, the Punk Survivor With the Sold-Out Art Shows”March 3, 2021A profile discussing Les Nabis and Fairfield Porter in relation to Titus’s painting. Air Mail“An Interview with the Frieze London’s Biggest Star, Honor Titus”Bridget Arsenault, October 9, 2021 T: The New York Times Style Magazine“A Night at the Sock Hop”November 20, 2020 https://honortitus.com/Exhibitions-Bibliography Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:11:15 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Exhibitions-Bibliography Exhibitions &amp; Bibliography Selected solo exhibitions and projects 2025 — Louis Malle Practice, Queens Museum, New York 2023 — Advantage In, Gagosian, Beverly Hills 2023 — Ornamental Distance, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai 2022–23 — Bourgeoisie in Bloom, Timothy Taylor, London 2022 — Spotlight: Honor Titus, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York 2021 — For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor, New York 2020 — Goodness Gracious, Henry Taylor Studio, Los Angeles Selected group exhibitions and commissions 2026–27 — Denim Tears from the Pool of Black Genius, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (participating artist) 2023–24 — Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, Royal Collection Trust; Palace of Holyroodhouse; National Portrait Gallery, London 2023 — Love &amp; Anarchy, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2021 — IRL (In Real Life), Timothy Taylor, London 2021 — and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York 2020 — (Nothing but) Flowers, Karma, New York Selected art fair presentations2026 — Gagosian, Frieze Los Angeles, Booth C12, Santa Monica2024 — Consider Me Charmed, Timothy Taylor, Frieze Seoul, Booth C242023 — Gagosian, Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth D252023 — Gagosian, Paris+ par Art Basel, Booth B052021 — Honor Titus, Timothy Taylor, Frieze LondonMonograph Honor Titus. London and New York: Anomie Publishing and Timothy Taylor, 2023. 68 pages. Foreword by Henry Taylor; texts by Durga Chew-Bose and Klaus Ottmann. ISBN 978-1-910221-44-0. Selected institutional and scholarly links Queens Museum — Louis Malle Practice National Portrait Gallery — Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation Gagosian — Advantage In The FLAG Art Foundation — Spotlight: Honor Titus Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles — Victory is Divine Anomie Publishing — Honor Titus Timothy Taylor — Honor Titus publication For a complete curriculum vitae, please contact the studio. https://honortitus.com/Work Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:06:56 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Work Honor Titus / Paintings <img width="3543" height="2835" width_o="3543" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d437a852246db3f6a5a90ffdc5c58eab3897d9e17106c80e7b3b8f1ea9ea939/GroundsoftheBrandLibrary.jpg" data-mid="123000141" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d437a852246db3f6a5a90ffdc5c58eab3897d9e17106c80e7b3b8f1ea9ea939/GroundsoftheBrandLibrary.jpg" />Grounds of the Brand Library, 2020Oil on Canvas36 x 48 in. / 91.5 x 122 cm <img width="2362" height="3543" width_o="2362" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b05b634aba65efaaba7c2d68b249e389d29541c39b89c450758d612efb47e82/SockHop.jpg" data-mid="123000356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b05b634aba65efaaba7c2d68b249e389d29541c39b89c450758d612efb47e82/SockHop.jpg" /> Sock Hop, 2020Oil on Canvas72 x 48 in. / 182.9 x 121.9 cm <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6931c586a55b51e5046dfb955707282f567faa800cc313134fac70781a4e63f6/H_Titus12190.jpeg" data-mid="221529324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6931c586a55b51e5046dfb955707282f567faa800cc313134fac70781a4e63f6/H_Titus12190.jpeg" />Shimmering Jubilee, 2022Oil on Canvas72 x 84 in. / 182.8 x 213.3 cm <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b59b4d935e34fbad811439057e3170a27e8abe43491185646c78d0ebbc137a25/LushLife.jpg" data-mid="123000690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b59b4d935e34fbad811439057e3170a27e8abe43491185646c78d0ebbc137a25/LushLife.jpg" />Lush Life, 2021Oil on Canvas60 x 72 in. / 152.4 x 182.9 cm <img width="1791" height="1188" width_o="1791" height_o="1188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5045b482fcea70661438e4ea8fbf4cb7933ae18fe8788354fa2e79a1f171c4dd/honor-titus-louis-malle-practice-queens-museum-2025.jpg" data-mid="252079063" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5045b482fcea70661438e4ea8fbf4cb7933ae18fe8788354fa2e79a1f171c4dd/honor-titus-louis-malle-practice-queens-museum-2025.jpg" />Honor Titus with Louis Malle Practice, 2025Queens Museum, New YorkPresented by the Queens Museum with The Armory Show and Gagosian on the occasion of the US Open. <img width="3543" height="2835" width_o="3543" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bbc86551ee504612152a4e9c4e3307cb26e496c73b6dbf303e65c2ccc0d4524/SummeratDodgeHall.jpg" data-mid="123000759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bbc86551ee504612152a4e9c4e3307cb26e496c73b6dbf303e65c2ccc0d4524/SummeratDodgeHall.jpg" />Summer at Dodge Hall, 2021Oil on Canvas60 x 72 in. / 152.4 x 182.9 cm Toiletries of A SociopathMany a mandrownedin the viscous spittleof groomed &amp; starched leadersMany a manremovedfor various atrocitieswatching themselves dilutein an overbearing seclusionOh, some things are worse than Death!living vicariously through written letterMany a manhopeto allude divinitiescertaintydoes the sharp edge of the gleaming bladecaress the nape of any neck?long, harsh steps to the city centerfor a judgment matineeCharismatic murderers find respitein the definitive pessimismthat is atheismStout and enduring menhave their strong, rigidcheekbones pressed againstthe knee of a deityHidden, Ipirouette among the linden treeson the promenade.— Honor Titus (2016) <img width="2531" height="3543" width_o="2531" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a7e85e6654e7322acf80e73a46d6de3630e31b848a3374ec86a1ffacdcb1e75/SelfPortrait.jpg" data-mid="123002656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a7e85e6654e7322acf80e73a46d6de3630e31b848a3374ec86a1ffacdcb1e75/SelfPortrait.jpg" />Self-Portrait, 2021Oil on Canvas72 1/4 x 48 in. / 183.1 x 129.9 cm https://honortitus.com/Advantage-In Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:41:41 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Advantage-In Advantage In&nbsp; &nbsp; Gagosian Beverly Hills July 20 — September 1, 2023 ︎︎︎&nbsp;Press Release Installation video <img width="2400" height="1570" width_o="2400" height_o="1570" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e90b02d3fe6b641fe1c124ea2e9a3a992c6be83dd788ff09f8d269602ef73f3b/EdXPkSoGyRT3_2400x2400.jpg" data-mid="221500546" border="0" 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Oct 2021 01:01:57 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/For-Heaven-s-Sake For Heaven’s Sake Timothy Taylor Gallery January 21- March 27, 2021 <img width="3543" height="2500" width_o="3543" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0283d888a70f4e8a9e50f7be8567012e7e26b0c3100f7185b5a72adaafc6ac3f/Install-6---300dpi.jpg" data-mid="123001653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0283d888a70f4e8a9e50f7be8567012e7e26b0c3100f7185b5a72adaafc6ac3f/Install-6---300dpi.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2500" width_o="3543" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c0cddd81060653d701f434c0972a71bfeb5bd181424463c7733c107885e9754/Install-5---300dpi.jpg" data-mid="123001652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c0cddd81060653d701f434c0972a71bfeb5bd181424463c7733c107885e9754/Install-5---300dpi.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2500" width_o="3543" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d64db92fc0b66f9d089862948a781084ed6bbce9ad3c3f2bde90ff83b41c4e85/Install-2---300dpi.jpg" data-mid="123001648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d64db92fc0b66f9d089862948a781084ed6bbce9ad3c3f2bde90ff83b41c4e85/Install-2---300dpi.jpg" /> https://honortitus.com/Goodness-Gracious Sun, 02 Feb 2020 21:58:56 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Goodness-Gracious Goodness Gracious Henry TaylorJanuary 25 — February 15, 2020 ︎︎︎&nbsp;Press Release <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c33b66c929cf32c37bfa74e5f9bd9d5f8de1726f8e54201d79a3391d48989ce/Honor-Titus-06.jpg" data-mid="60067856" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c33b66c929cf32c37bfa74e5f9bd9d5f8de1726f8e54201d79a3391d48989ce/Honor-Titus-06.jpg" /> <img width="3567" height="4750" width_o="3567" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2260bfc944979a01ab7873c05d3fd3b68969d738e595bc4bc58d0a3ca788df16/Honor-Titus-01.jpg" data-mid="60067850" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2260bfc944979a01ab7873c05d3fd3b68969d738e595bc4bc58d0a3ca788df16/Honor-Titus-01.jpg" />So What, 2019, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in / 91 x 122 cm <img width="3567" height="4750" width_o="3567" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e3236f6e3958bf3e785a5d373621be5f2cfe7dc1bf6ad3c4dd8c53114d416e9/Honor-Titus-02.jpg" data-mid="60067851" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e3236f6e3958bf3e785a5d373621be5f2cfe7dc1bf6ad3c4dd8c53114d416e9/Honor-Titus-02.jpg" />July 18th, 2019, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in / 122 x 152 cm <img width="3567" height="4750" width_o="3567" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a79458a31186e2370ee95c5e8ceb1c3b6870bb692bec8ac6bc654fe79de46c2/Honor-Titus-03.jpg" data-mid="60067853" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a79458a31186e2370ee95c5e8ceb1c3b6870bb692bec8ac6bc654fe79de46c2/Honor-Titus-03.jpg" />Dewey Square, 2019, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in / 122 x 152 cm <img width="3567" height="4750" width_o="3567" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/040ce7720ba8048cdfec652b0bb4898124613746ad5c878c9ed4adac15f0283c/Honor-Titus-04.jpg" data-mid="60067854" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/040ce7720ba8048cdfec652b0bb4898124613746ad5c878c9ed4adac15f0283c/Honor-Titus-04.jpg" />Tom Hanks at Lassens, 2019, Oil on canvas, 86 x 71 in / 218 x 180 cm <img width="4758" height="3344" width_o="4758" height_o="3344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4cd053c75233c5a5979ea1202e50dc964635349791411d2f33b540576b2ef8d/Honor-Titus-05.jpg" data-mid="60067855" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4cd053c75233c5a5979ea1202e50dc964635349791411d2f33b540576b2ef8d/Honor-Titus-05.jpg" />Il Posto, 2019, Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 in / 35.5 x 53 cm <img width="3567" height="4750" width_o="3567" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21f808192ad202ddf8964a652982b16f7923c50425b3ebbe66a3a4fbdbe5ede5/Honor-Titus-07.jpg" data-mid="60067857" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21f808192ad202ddf8964a652982b16f7923c50425b3ebbe66a3a4fbdbe5ede5/Honor-Titus-07.jpg" />Coming Up Roses, 2019, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in / 122 x 152 cm https://honortitus.com/Info Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:06:22 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Info Honor Titus Honor Titus (born July 18, 1989, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American painter and multidisciplinary artist whose figurative paintings bring literary, cinematic, and art-historical intelligence to scenes of leisure, sport, intimacy, and social ritual. Working with flattened planes of color, economical line, and carefully held intervals of silence, Titus constructs images that feel both immediate and recollected. His paintings consider class, aspiration, solitude, memory, and the cultivated theater of everyday life. A reader as much as an image maker, Titus approaches painting with the compression and ambiguity of a short story. Literature enters his work not as illustration but as cadence: in the titles, atmosphere, withheld narratives, and emotional distance of his figures. His paintings engage a lineage that includes Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, and Alex Katz, alongside Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis of Les Nabis, while reframing those traditions through the experience of contemporary Black life.In his essay “Honor Titus’s Moral Imaginations” (2023), Klaus Ottmann notes that Titus has acknowledged Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Félix Vallotton, Edward Hopper, and the stylized portraits of Alex Katz and Kehinde Wiley as influences. In conversation with Henry Taylor (Interview, 2021), he spoke of the inspiration he finds in Andy Warhol. The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, which acquired Portable Prince in 2023, presents it alongside works from its collection that share its themes, including Barkley L. Hendricks’s Bahsir (Robert Gowens). Selected interviews and criticism Before focusing on painting, Titus was the lead vocalist of the Brooklyn punk band Cerebral Ballzy and organized poetry readings in New York. After assisting artist Raymond Pettibon, he moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and developed his visual art practice. Painter Henry Taylor became a mentor and presented Titus’s first solo exhibition, Goodness Gracious, in Los Angeles in 2020. Titus lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife, filmmaker Gia Coppola. His work has been presented internationally by Gagosian, Timothy Taylor, the Queens Museum, the Longlati Foundation, and the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is held in public and private collections. Selected exhibitions and projects Recent projects include Louis Malle Practice, installed on the façade of the Queens Museum during the 2025 US Open; Advantage In, Gagosian, Beverly Hills (2023); Ornamental Distance, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2023); Bourgeoisie in Bloom, Timothy Taylor, London (2022–23); For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor, New York (2021); and Goodness Gracious, Henry Taylor Gallery, Los Angeles (2020). Titus was among the artists commissioned by His Majesty King Charles III for Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation. His portrait of Delisser Bernard entered the Royal Collection and was exhibited at the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Selected collections Royal Collection Trust, UK Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Dallas Museum of ArtCrocker Art Museum The FLAG Art Foundation, New York Longlati Foundation, Shanghai Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Rennie Collection, Vancouver Pérez Art Museum Miami <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Honor_Titus_2022_2._Credit_to_Gia_Coppola.jpg" alt="Honor Titus, American painter, photographed by Gia Coppola in Los Angeles, 2024">Honor Titus, Los Angeles (2024). Photograph by Gia Coppola. https://honortitus.com/Contact Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:40:43 +0000 Honor Titus | Paintings https://honortitus.com/Contact For inquiries:Info@timothytaylor.com <img width="1181" height="1020" width_o="1181" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f4cce77d29ee8467185f4976ba1dfc533cb3b39dd31d940129ef43545e8a21c/T0015097-Penguin-Classic--2024_100dpi.jpg" data-mid="221470723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f4cce77d29ee8467185f4976ba1dfc533cb3b39dd31d940129ef43545e8a21c/T0015097-Penguin-Classic--2024_100dpi.jpg" />