Honor Titus

Spotlight

The Flag Art Foundation’s Spotlight exhibition series includes new or never-before-exhibited artworks accompanied by commissioned pieces of writing. In its fourth iteration, the Spotlight features Honor Titus’s Thy Margent Green, 2022, with a text by Derek Blasberg, a writer, editor, and current Head of Fashion & Beauty and Director of Public Figures for YouTube.

Honor Titus (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Since his first solo exhibition in 2019, Titus has quickly garnered international recognition for his painting practice, which weaves together a surreal, expressive iconography with references drawn variously from literature, art history, music, architecture, and American advertising traditions. Recent solo exhibitions include For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY (2021); Goodness Gracious, Studio Henry Taylor, Los Angeles, CA (2020). His work has been part of numerous group exhibitions, including IRL (In Real Life), Timothy Taylor, London, United Kingdom (2021); Parallel Worlds, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021); and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (2021); (Nothing but) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY (2020); among others. Titus has been the subject of reviews and articles in publications including Art in America, Artnet, Frieze, GQ, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Town & Country, among others.

Derek Blasberg (b. 1982, St. Louis, MO) is a New York-based journalist, editor, and current Head of Fashion & Beauty and Director of Public Figures for YouTube. Blasberg earned BAs in both Dramatic Literature and Journalism at New York University, NY, in 2004. Beginning his career at Vogue magazine, Blasberg went on to become the youngest ever Editor-at-Large at Harper’s Bazaar, V, and VMAN. In 2008, Blasberg edited Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s book Interview. He would go on to write the New York Times bestseller Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady in 2010, followed by the sequel Very Classy: Even More Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady in 2011. In 2015, Blasberg was appointed Vanity Fair’s ‘Our Man on the Street’ and there, created the magazine’s first ever digital franchise. That same year, he published Harper’s Bazaar: Models highlighting the magazine’s cover models from the past sixty years. From 2016-18, Blasberg hosted the reboot of CNN Style, a monthly series that covered art, luxury, fashion, autos, architecture, and design. Blasberg has been with Gagosian since 2014, both as a senior staffer and Executive Editor of the gallery’s editorial publication Gagosian Quarterly. He is also a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, and several international editions of Vogue.