Kara walker art

Walker’s latest work is disturbing, but the horror it portrays belongs to the American subconscious.

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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.

Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality

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Kara Walker, Boo-Hoo, 2000. Linoleum cut, sheet: 39 3/4 × 20 5/8 in. (101 × 52.4 cm) Image (irregular): 36 11/16 × 18 1/2 in. (93.2 × 47 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Liz Fensterstock 2012.134. © Kara Walker

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. © 2025 Kara Walker. Series. Drawings & Prints

Los Angeles’s new museum, The Broad, will feature key works from artists collected by the billionaire couple for decades, from Americans Chuck Close and Jeff Koons to Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

Figure 2. Kara Walker, Burn, 1998. Cut paper on wall. 92 x 48 inches (233.7 x 121.9 cm) © Kara Walker, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. - "Disgust in Silhouette: Toni Morrison, Kara Walker, and the Aesthetics of Violence"

View Untitled by Kara Walker, sold at New Now on New York Auction 28 February 2018. Learn more about the piece and artist, and its final selling price.

My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, the first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker, features works ranging from her signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on paper.

Kara Walker i think her work is quite surreal as the images she creates are real or believable

Kara Walker Untitled 2001-2005 Collage on paper

Kara Walker began this sketchbook in Munich in 1999, when she was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of work came out of this particular book, ...

The New Yorker - Monday, August 27, 2007 - Issue # 4228 - Vol. 83 - N° 25 - Cover “Post-Katrina – Adrift” by Kara Walker