Kara Walker: Starting Out
Walker produces collage which exists directly on the gallery wall or is free standing. Most of the images are silhouettes of black people in slavery or popular culture that is built on stereotype and racism.
Walker also uses sculpture, printmaking, painting and installation.
Some of Walker's work is very violent. Showing slaves disemboweling their captors. I understand that slave owners perpetuated violence upon slaves and that Kara Walker's art expresses the attitudes of the oppressed. Maybe Kara Walker wants me to be uncomfortable looking at images of slaves. If that is her goal, she is successful.
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