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Fem Art Friday Feature: Kara Walker

Contemporary artist Kara Walker deals with the complicated issues of race, gender, and sexuality in her art pieces. These themes are often explored through her well-known silhouettes pieces. In her own words…

“I was really searching for a format to sort of encapsulate, to simplify complicated things…And some of it spoke to me as: ‘it’s a medium…historically, it’s a craft…and it’s very middle-class.’ It spoke to me in the same way that the minstrel show does…it’s middle class white people rendering themselves black, making themselves somewhat invisible, or taking on an alternate identity because of the anonymity … and because the shadow also speaks about so much of our psyche. You can play out different roles when you’re rendered black, or halfway invisible.” [Source]

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    her work is awesome. i think it was at the tate modern i saw it… some shit had tried to rip the paper cut-outs off the...
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    we studied her in my art class last semester!!! what a fantastic artist, and what fantastic work she does.
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    One of my favorite artists… I wrote my Figure Drawing Final on her work and also created an art piece based off what I...
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