Kara Walker
American, born 1969
Testimony
2005
Set of 4 photogravures
22 3/8 x 30 5/8 in.
PH.100
Anonymous gift
New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Walker captured and digitally manipulated the images from her 2004 video, "Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions" to create these photogravures.
In 1997, at age 28, Walker became one of the youngest-ever recipients to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2002, she was the United States representative to the Bienal de São Paulo, and in 2012, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Walker Art Center organized her first large survey exhibition, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (2007), which traveled to museums in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. Her work has been collected and exhibited by museums worldwide.
Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
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This publication documents Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, a major series of graphite drawings and hand-printed texts on paper that grew out of Walker's attempts to understand how interpersonal and geopolitical powers are asserted through the lives of individuals. The accompanying essays take us through Walker's saga of American experience--the dual streams of renewal and destruction that trace parallel lines through the last century's rapid urbanization, and the complementary emergence of a 'New Negro' identity.
MCMXCIX
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"This sketchbook was begun in Munich in 1999, when I was 29 years old... For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters." - Kara Walker. [212] p. 23 x 15 cm. Sewn Binding.
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
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Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minn., Minnesota, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, Nov. 11, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 17-May 11, 2008.
Kara Walker: Pictures from Another Time
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Playing on its associations with caricature and with the pseudo-science of physiognomy ... [Walker] turns it into a powerful medium for evoking the complexity of slavery ... includes watercolors, prints, drawings, and projected installations as well as life-sized silhouettes ... includes nearly seventy examples of her work in a variety of media