Kara Walker by Robert F. Reid-Pharr5/8/2023 Walker’s work mines American legacies of domination based on race, gender, and sexuality. She experienced pervasive, yet often covert, racism and sexism in Georgia, where, in Walker’s words, “a longing for a romanticized and homogenous ‘past’ lingers and retains all of its former power.” She attended Atlanta College of Art and completed her graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969, and moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia, at the age of thirteen. The kind of residual racism, residual psychosis, residual misogyny of the world.” -Kara Walker It’s born partly out of just the experience of my body as it’s moved through the world, and the bodies it’s come in contact with. Sort of one and the same and completely separate. The Black woman and me, the Negress and myself. “I started this work with the silhouettes with the express project to make a Black woman’s art.
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