Honor Titus is one of the art world’s most buzzed-about painters. After fronting the Brooklyn punk-rock band Cerebral Ballzy and working as a studio assistant for Raymond Pettibon, he turned to painting, developing a unique style inspired by Les Nabis, a group of 19th century French painters who eschewed linear perspective in favour of flat planes of colour and decorative patterns.

In January 2020 he had a breakthrough show at Henry Taylor’s downtown LA studio and a year later his first solo show at Timothy Taylor gallery in New York. It sold out a week before opening, with critics hailing him as a rising star. Suffused with a sense of romance and nostalgia, Titus’s paintings depict leisure activities and fragmented street scenes conjured from his lived experiences and memories.

Trophy Position (2021) shows a woman measuring her serve up against an old-timey net. Is it match point? As with many of Titus’s paintings, we’re left to interpret the narrative. It is one of many sporting pictures Titus has painted over the last few years. ‘Athletics are often filled with such ritual, whether it be sartorial or domain, that I find it quite rich for inspiration,’ he once said.

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