Kara Walker
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Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969 in Stockton , California , USA ) is an American artist. She lives and works in New York.
Life
At the age of 13, Walker moved her family to Stone Mountain , a suburb of Atlanta , because her father - the artist Larry Walker - accepted a position at Georgia State University .
After studying at the Atlanta College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Arts , which she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1994 , Walker took on a professorship at Columbia University , New York , in 2002 . In the same year she represented the USA at the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil . In 1997 she received a scholarship from the McArthur Foundation.
In 1997 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2007 she was elected to the National Academy of Design , in 2012 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 to the American Philosophical Society .
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Walker is known for her silhouette-like work, in which she addresses slavery .
Her depictions of power , oppression , racism, and sexuality have often sparked controversy as she explored the grotesque dark sides of American history and the depths of culture. Walker became known for her huge, panorama-like works, in which she applied silhouettes, often human-sized, directly to the wall and sometimes illuminated them with different colored light sources. A typical feature of her works is that at first glance they seem like idyllic fairy tale scenes, which however soon reveal themselves as violent scenes. In 2002, examples of these “silhouettes” from the Deutsche Bank Collection were shown in the Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition hall in Berlin .
Some of her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan , New York City , and the MCA in Chicago. Walker appeared on the Public Broadcasting Service .
For the 1998/1999 season in the Vienna State Opera she designed the first large picture of the “Iron Curtain” exhibition series conceived by museum in progress .
In 2014, in New York City, Walker created a 23-meter-long, 11-meter-high and 8-meter-wide sphinx out of sugar-coated styrofoam . The sculpture, entitled A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, was shown in the Brooklyn borough in a hall of the former Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) .
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"You never see the whole thing, only one side, so at best half the truth (...) The silhouette says a lot with very little information."
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- ↑ a b The Art of Kara Walker - My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Biography ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , walkerart.org, 2007
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "W" ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 7, 2015)
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Press Releases , Galerie Max Hetzler, 2005 ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ At Mammy Sphinx in Brooklyn in FAZ from June 16, 2014, page 14 online (accessed April 7, 2015)
- ↑ Steinberg, Claudia, Kara Walker, Scharfe Schnitte , Vogue 4/2001, p. 314
Web links
- Literature by and about Kara Walker in the catalog of the German National Library
- An interview with Kara Walker (Engl.)
- Biographical, press, and works information (Engl.)
- Kara Walker's work information at the Walker Art Center (Engl.)
- Kara Walker Interview YouTube Video
- Kara Walker on kunstaspekte.de
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| SURNAME | Walker, Kara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockton , California |