Kara Walker
By:
Katie Pilbeam
Several artists incorporate stories of their own lives within their artwork. Kara Walker is a very interesting artist to discover as she explains Southern American history through her work, enjoy.
Shown in the photo below, Walker uses contrasting black siloehuette images in every piece of her work. Born in 1969, this artist is often inspired by paper cut-outs. On the faded background with colors such as red, blue, black, and white, Walker uses the contrast of black siloehuette images to her advantage. The focus of her artwork is primarily based upon the violence she has imagined and the encounters she may have endured while living in the south and being of African American desent.
Though gracefully, Walker uses the siloeuette images in her artwork pieces as a way to represent and show the violence throughout the world. As a native from California, Kara Walker is now well known for her work with silhouettes. She then spent most of her childhood years in Stone Mountain, Georgia when her family decided to move. Through her creativity, she encorporates controversy such as race, gender, and sexuality.
Walker received her Bachelor of Arts at the Atlanta College of Art in georgia, along with a Master of Arts at the Rhode Island School of Arts. Since 2002, she has been a professor at Columbia University in New York where she can pass her talent on to her students.
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