Kara Walker

Still from 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of an African-America, Parts 1-8
2006
Animation shadow puppets

Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civic War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

1994

Cut paper on wall

Slavery!Slavery! Presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque South Slavery of “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)” See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker an Emancipated Negress and leader of her Cause

1997
Cut paper on wall

Endless Conundrum, An African Anonymous Adventuress
2001
Cut paper on wall

Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching
2006
Cut paper in display box

Kara Walker was born in 1969. Walker’s work shows themes in mainly sexuality, race, repression, and power. “Most pieces have to do with exchanges of power, attempts to steal power away from others” (Kara Walker, 2003). She uses past images of history to explore the racial issues of the present. At the age of 27 she received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur grant. She now works as a professor of visual arts at Columbia University.

http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/IntroductionToThemes