“After a summer of death and protest, Titus Kaphar’s new show relies on the power of omission to stress the traumas of living under white supremacy,” wrote Ravi Ghosh in his piece on the American artist’s recent Gagosian New York show. The works on display featured Black mothers caring for their young children in suburban American settings, but, in each case, the children had been cut from the images by scalpel, reducing them to mere silhouettes—to deeply haunting effect. This pertinent painting featured both in the show and on the cover of TIME magazine following George Floyd’s death. Kaphar said of its protagonist, “In her expression, I see the Black mothers who are unseen, and rendered helpless in this fury against their babies.” Read the full article here.
© Titus Kaphar. Photo: Christopher Gardner. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
