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Here at the Brooklyn Museum we are committed to addressing the most pressing current social and cultural issues not only in our canon-expanding exhibitions, but also in our new acquisitions for our renowned collection. So we are thrilled to announce that we recently acquired Shifting the Gaze by Titus Kaphar (b. 1976), who is one of the most significant contemporary artists to engage with issues of social justice today. Kaphar completed Shifting the Gaze on stage as a dramatic conclusion to his recent TED talk, “Can Art Amend History?,” that explored how the encoded language of art conveys the power and privilege of its subjects.
The painting is based on the Family Group in Landscape by 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals, and depicts a Caucasian couple, their two children, and an African servant, posed against a landscape. During his talk Kaphar veiled the figures of the couple and children with broad strokes of white paint—and shifts our gaze over to the servant. Shifting the Gaze will inaugurate our new exhibition series, One Brooklyn, scheduled to begin in the summer of 2018, that will feature one work from our collection that forges an inspiring encounter and expands the ways we see ourselves, the world and its possibilities.
Posted by Susan Fisher
Titus Kaphar (American, born 1976). Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas, 83 x 103¼ inches. Image courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery © Titus Kaphar
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