Kara Walker ART FOR SALE

Born 1969 Stockton, California. Known for: Silhouette figures, racial themed work.

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Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical black images in a confrontational way. One of her prints tilted A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, was pulled from a show in 1999 at the Detroit Institute of Arts because it was an antebellum plantation scene that offended some of the African-American artists. In 2002, she was selected to represent the United States at the Sao Paulo Biennial, running from March 23 to June 2nd. Walker was born in Stockton, California where her father was an art teacher at... Read full biography

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Freedom: A Fable Bound (Pop-Up Book)

Type:Book Art

Year:1997

Size:8.25" x 9.25"

Medium:Lithograph

Signed:Unsigned

Edition:4000

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Leather bound volume of offset lithographs and five laser-cut pop-up sihouettes on wove paper. Published by Peter Norton Christmas Project, Santa Monica, CA.

Price: between $5,000 and $25,000. Please contact Martha Henry, Inc. Fine Art