This week on Open Studio Jared Bowen sits down with artist Titus Kaphar. Kaphar has an exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum titled The Jerome Project. Using gold and tar, Kaphar tells the story of incarcerated men. When he was googling his own father, he found his mug shot—and the mug shots of near 100 other black men with the same name as his father, Jerome. By recreating portraits of these incarcerated men, using varying levels of tar to obscure their faces to relay the length of their sentences, Titus Kaphar is reckoning with both his own personal history and how mass incarceration affects society. From there, to mark Veterans Day, we visit the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA. While this museum is as large as several airplane hangars, and home to over 50 tanks and military vehicles, it is really an anti-war museum, which asks visitors to contemplate the ravages of war.
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Jared Bowen is a jewel in the GBH crown.