Kara Walker is an artist who is known for her room size
tableaux of black cut paper silhouettes. She explorers the intersections of
race, gender and sexuality through her art, she first started as a painter.
Although oil painting did not work out for her, She was trying to understand
her artistic identity and the issues of 'the other'. As an African American woman, Kara tried to understand
the relationship between power and history. Walker came up with the silhouettes
as a drawing process in which she fell in love with history painting. African American history in the United States
is one of the most important views of history in which Kara makes a way to
create art from it and use viewers to fill in tension with it. Walkers exhibits
have received glowing reviews from both NPR and the New York Times.
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