"Darkytown Rebellion"2001
Installation view at Brent Sikkema, New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet
"Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)"2002
Installation view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 12 x 74 1/2 feet
"No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly Demise"1999
Installation view at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Cut paper and adhesive on painted wall, 10 x 65 feet
"Burn"1998
Cut paper and adhesive on wall, 92 1/8 x 48 inches
Kara Walker
" The typewriter leaves every flaw intact. When I write longhand, if all else fails, I can draw a picture. I can cover up the errors, the mistakes of switches in tense or grammar. With the typewriter, it’s, “I am flawed, but I’m going to keep trying!”"
"I feel like I’m constantly at step one of learning how to be an artist, or how to make art. I have an idealized folk artist in my mind. . . . I don’t know if it’s my calling, I don’t know if there’s a divine voice behind this, but I know that I have to do it."
-Kara Walker via BOMB magazine
relation to my work:
Kara Walker is an artist that has been using silhouettes successfully for years now. She received the MacArthur "genius" award at 27. The youngest to ever receive one. She uses her silhouettes to interact with each other and create a narrative on the wall. In starting to use silhouettes I wonder how my silhouettes can interact with each other on the wall. Walker uses these silhouettes to rewrite Southern antebellum history. She wants to turn being an African American woman on its head. She does this by revisiting the South and rewriting who was important. She takes the American history and makes it her own retelling of it. In my work, I am trying to retell my own history. Tell people my story the way it was and I think the silhouettes will help with this. They will be my characters of characters.
Each of the world's continents (including Oceana) is represented by a lone, Art Grand Master. This distinction is bestowed anew, annually. In America (2015) Societe deBeaux Arts-Luxembourg is deciding between L.A.'s Kara Walker & Clevelands' Marc Breed.
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