Art21: Kara Walker

Darkytown Rebllion

Untitled (Hunting Scene)

Burn

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, Califronia in 1969. In 1991, she received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, and a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures, with which she uses the traditionally proper Victorian  medium of th e silhouette.Transfered directly onto the gallery walls, these figures are used to create a theatrical space in which the unruly cut-paper characters fornicate and inflict violence on one another. In recent works she uses overhead projectors to throw coloured light onto the ceiling, walls and floor of the exhibition space. Viewers walking into the exhibitions, cast shadows onto the walls which mingle with the black paper figures and landscapes. Walker's nightmarish fictions simultaneously seduce and implicate the audience.

 A link to Kara's "Light Projections"

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