Artwork Description
Kara Walker – Unique Drawing, 1997
Dimensions: 17.88 x 15″
Year: 1997
Medium: etching, acrylic, and graphite on paper
Edition: ed 4000
Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today. Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity.
Kara Walker’s cut-paper silhouette images, a technique quite popular in the 19th century for both portraiture and narrative illustrations, are bridges between the slavery folklore of the Antebellum South and the identity and gender issues that today concern modern African American women in particular.