Provenance

Brent Sikkema, New York
Exhibited

Portland, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Habit Forming: Contemporary Art from Portland Collections, April 23 - May 30, 2007 ; Portland, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Working History, African American Objects, January 22 - March 2, 2008
Literature

B. Libby, “A Look Inside the Collecting Trove,” The Oregonian, April 29, 2007 (Illustrated); J. Bromer, “Habit Forming at PNCA,” PortlandArt.net (online content), May 14, 2007 (illustrated); C. Raymond, “You Need Art,” Portland Monthly, March 2008 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
Internationally acclaimed artist Kara Walker revived the traditionally female craft form of silhouette cutting creating shadow dramas which with nuance and dark humor deal with complex and uncomfortable issues of race, taboo, pride, decency, power and identity. Walker was drawn to the use of the silhouette for its reductive quality—a silhouette reduces a rendering to two dimensions just as a racial stereotype is a reduction of an actual human being. Another aspect that appealed to her was that the silhouettes render everyone the color black. The silhouette also has a connotation of gentility to it, which serves to point out the historical hypocrisy of this country’s legacy of race relations, and adds to the irony in her powerful imagery.

"Well, a lot of the time every image is one lie or bad joke—on the surface— rather than an immediate truth. I guess the “truth” of an image or situation within a whole piece, occurs when the viewer is enticed to fill in the blank spaces. She is faced with the discomfort of realizing just how many bizarre and sometimes violent fantasies already occupy her mind, " (Kara Walker in H. Olbrist, Kara Walker: Safety Curtain 1, Vienna, 2002, p. 12).
Artist Biography
Kara Walker
American • 1969
Kara 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.
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Kara Walker

The Humane Acquisition of Chitlins

1994 -1995

Paper cut-out mounted to paper.
72 1/4 x 52 1/4 in. (183.5 x 132.7 cm).

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000

Sold for $86,500

Contemporary Art Part I

12 Nov 2009
New York

1
Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton
Untitled (from the series Guyton \ Walker: Empire Strikes Back)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $74,500
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2
Dash Snow
Polaroid Wall
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $50,000
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Mark Handforth
American Tristar
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
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4
Robert Longo
Untitled (Damien)
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
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5
Olafur Eliasson
1m³ light
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Sold for $362,500
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6
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled"
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $542,500
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7
Jeff Koons
Ice Bucket
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $230,500
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8
Richard Prince
Untitled (four women with their backs to the camera)
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
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9
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (T.W.A.)
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $842,500
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10
Gilbert & George
Spell of Sweating
Estimate $180,000 - 250,000
Sold for $206,500
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11
Larry Bell
Untitled
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
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12
Richard Artschwager
Untitled
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $338,500
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14
Ed Ruscha
Mean As Hell
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $590,500
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15
John McCracken
Speak
Estimate $90,000 - 120,000
Sold for $110,500
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16
Andy Warhol
Brillo Soap Pads Box
Estimate $700,000 - 900,000
Sold for $842,500
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17
Ed Ruscha
Atlas
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $86,500
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18
Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $506,500
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19
James Rosenquist
Wild West World
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $242,500
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20
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Puny Undernourished Kid & Girlfriend From Hell
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
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21
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22
Anselm Reyle
Sonnenuntergang am Genfer See (Sunset on Lake Geneva)
Estimate $80,000 - 100,000
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23
Keith Tyson
Nature Painting
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $60,000
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24
Olafur Eliasson
Moonlight
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $110,500
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25
Jack Goldstein
Untitled
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $104,500
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26
Yoshitomo Nara
Black Hole Cosmic Heads
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $134,500
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27
George Condo
Mental States (Hiding and Finding)
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $290,500
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28
Banksy
Insane Clown
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $386,500
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29
Albert Oehlen
Untitled
Estimate $150,000 - 250,000
Sold for $194,500
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30
Sherrie Levine
Untitled (Lead Knots: 7)
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $134,500
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31
Tony Cragg
Paysage avec Lac (Landscape with Lake)
Estimate $90,000 - 120,000
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32
Fred Sandback
Untitled (Leaning Vertical Construction)
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
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33
Dan Walsh
Untitled
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $37,500
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34
Kara Walker
The Humane Acquisition of Chitlins
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $86,500
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35
Katja Strunz
Untitled
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
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37
David LaChapelle
Leonardo DiCaprio: Nostalgic Styling
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $31,250
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38
Tracey Emin
Her soft lips touched mine and every thing became hard
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $86,500
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39
Jules de Balincourt
Ambitious New Plans
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $116,500
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Carroll Dunham
Another Island
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Hernan Bas
The Lonely Martian
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $98,500
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42
Feng Zhengjie
China 2005 No. 11
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $68,500
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Catalogue Essay

Artist Biography

Kara Walker

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