Kara walker art

Andrea K. Scott writes about the artist Kara Walker’s new show, at the Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery in New York.

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.

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Last night, they scaled my walls as I slept. The silhouettes moved closer—paralyzing me—with each flash of yellow light from the street. Some of them danced forward on toe, some ran, others fiddled in place with their shovels, their ropes and lanterns, their dangling snakes, torches, sickles. I didn’t know if they were after me, […]

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Kara Walker. savant from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters. 2010. One from a series of six etching and aquatints. plate: 24 x 13 7/8" (61 x 35.2 cm); sheet: 30 1/4 x 17 7/8" (76.8 x 45.4 cm). Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Gregory Burnet, New York. Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund. 950.2010.3. © 2024 Kara Walker. Series. Drawings & Prints

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Kara Walker shocks and inspires viewers by creating wall-sized paper silhouettes of nightmarish vignettes that illustrate the history of the American South.