Kara Walker is an American artist who is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. "Her works often address highly charged themes such as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality."
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| Slavery! Slavery! Presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery or “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)” See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause[detail] 1997 cut paper on wall Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2008 |
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| Darkytown Rebellion 2001 cut paper and projection on wall Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, 2001 |
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| Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart [detail] 1994 cut paper (21 silhouettes) |
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| Mississippi Mud 2007 mixed media |
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| Fall From Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale 2011 DVD Video 17 minutes |
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| National Archives Microfilm Publication M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road2009 DVD Video, color, sound 13 minutes, 22 seconds |
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| 10 Years Massacre (and its Retelling) #3 2009 mixed media, cut paper, acrylic on gessoed panel |
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