Kara Walker
dal 4/6/2003 al 25/7/2003
Segnalato da
4/6/2003
Kara Walker
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Kara Walker's drawings and various works on paper are disturbing, beautiful, skillful and some times funny. They exhibit a range of technique, including watercolor, ink, collage and pencil, as well as a range of 'styles', from classical rendering to comic strip.
Brent Sikkema presents new drawings by Kara Walker, June 4th - July 25th. Kara Walker's drawings and various works on paper are disturbing, beautiful, skillful and some times funny. They exhibit a range of technique, including watercolor, ink, collage and pencil, as well as a range of "styles", from classical rendering to comic strip. Although Walkers exhibitions since 1996 have been dominated by her large silhouette wall installations, most have also included her works on paper. In 1997 for her solo exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (which focused heavily on her drawings) Gary Garrels wrote:
"The characters and stories that are portrayed are both alluring and highly disturbing, beautiful but often repugnant as well. She does not shy away from depicting taboo subjects: sexual, scatological, or violent. History and psychology meld, so that social relations and internal identity, desires and nightmares, cannot be separated. She renders figures and tells tales that have been imagined but suppressed, known but stricken from official histories. These are images that lurk in the subconscious, and in her art expose contradictions and tensions of race in America that have grown up over centuries of lies and insecurities, exploitation and vulnerabilities. Precocious and subversive, Walker's work provokes the catharsis achieved by public acknowledgment of these suppressed histories and their effect on the psyche."
Kara Walker has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Her recent solo museum shows include The Hanover Kunstverien (2002), The Deutsche Guggenheim (2002), University of Michigan Museum of Art (2002) and The Tang Museum/Williams College Museum (2003). A book accompanied each of these exhibitions, most recently Narratives of a Negress (MIT Press). Her upcoming solo projects include the Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome (Fall 2003), Tate Liverpool (2004) and the Walker Art Center (2005).
Image: Kara Walker
Untitled, 2003
Graphite and mixed media on paper
62 x 72 1/4 inches
Brent Sikkema
530 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
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