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Kara Walker
...calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea. I was transported.
duration 9 minutes 10 seconds
Please note that this is the single channel version of the work. There is no audio. Other editions of this video are in the collection of De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway.
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Kara Walker
American | 1969Kara Walker sugarcoats nothing. Her masterpiece public art commission, A Subtlety, 2014, was a 35-foot high racial confrontation of artifact, mythology and American history in the form of a sphinx packed from 80-tonnes of Domino white sugar crystals. Walker's practice first caught audiences with her haunting paper cutout silhouettes retelling the injustices of slavery and the foundations of American capitalist culture.
Walker's immense talent matched by her cunning commentary has made her one of the most important contemporary artists today, having enjoyed major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York in addition to permanent placements within the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute Chicago. Her auction market is strong for a mid-career artist, with works reaching more than $300,000.