Influencer | Artist Kara Walker

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Kara Walker, contemporary artist


Conversations about history, race and women have been happening around Kara Walker since 1994, the year Walker made headlines with her 50-foot mural featuring black silhouettes on a white wall. From a distance, it was almost romantic; at close range, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart showed sexuality, suffering and racial tensions.

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Since then she won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, had a traveling retrospective, has shown at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s Tate Modern among others, and most recently, created a temporary instillation A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, a 35-foot-tall and 75-foot-long sphinx made entirely of sugar, displayed at the former Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn, New York. But the defining moment came when 130,000 people turned out to view Walker’s sphinx, once again sparking poignant discussions of history, race, slavery and sexuality.

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