Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University since 2015.
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No Mere Words Can Adequately Reflect The Remorse This Negress Feels . .
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1999 — Kara Walker
“The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.”
Kara Walker
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