Through her artwork, Titus explores the structures and mysteries of nature. With classical music as her primary source of inspiration, Titus seeks to create a direct, non-verbal experience of energy – an interchange of tonalities and harmonies that is at once being and becoming, tangible and intangible. An accomplished colorist, her use of different hues is much like that of a composer's use of notes, and to these hues she applies refined intensities, layering them, crossing over and under each subtle tone in complex and beautiful rhythms.
Mostly self-taught, Titus' work is a product of innate talent married to intensive study of the old and modern masters. Early works echo the influence of Turner's light, and later, a series of deep blue geometrical paintings explore contrasting darkness. Her more recent abstract works move confidently beyond the inclusion of particular signifiers to offer themselves as material visualizations of hypnotic, trance like states of mind.
Titus has had solo exhibitions in New York, London and Chicago. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. She now works in her studio in New York City.
About the Artist
"One cannot just glance at the art of Jamie Titus, but must actually look at and into it – experience it – as a complex relationship develops between 'it' and 'you'"
— Jim Tottis, Former Curator, Detroit Institute of the Arts