Search

The article features artist Kara Walker. She created a large sculpture called A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, the largest single piece of public art ever erected in New York City, commissioned by the downtown public-art fund Creative Time. The African American artist first gained fame with her 1994 exhibition "Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War As It Occurred B'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart" at the Drawing Center.

The article profiles black American artist Kara Walker. The debut of her art show titled "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris, France, is discussed. Often utilizing black-paper cutouts in addition to watercolors, drawings, and films, the author likens Walker to the French master painter Honoré Daumier. The author also comments on black spiritual themes present in Walker's works.

The article features Kara Walker, an African American woman visual artist and a professor at Columbia University in New York. She received her master's in fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. An overview of the success of her first exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York in 1994 is presented. A description of her portraits from black paper and her large murals is outlined.

Profiles African-American artist Kara Walker, whose confrontation of antebellum stereotypes has attracted as much controversy as acclaim. Description of an epic mural that Walker is creating at the New School University in New York; Signature elements of Walker's art; Her achievements as an artist; Details of her childhood; Educational background; Career history.

Profiles Kara Walker, a black artist that works in the cutpaper medium. Her work detailing the black history and how its tellings have affected the African-American experience; The works showing a tableau of subverted slavery-era icons; Description of her work; Walker's comments.

The article briefly discusses the work of the African American artist Kara Walker, paying particular focus to her first large-scale public installation titled "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," which will be on view at the soon-to-be-demolished Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn, New York.

Features African American artist Kara Walker. Educational background; Award received through her scaled works of plantation life.

Describes the work of Afro-American artist Kara Walker. Technique of her art; Controversy raised about her works; Schedule of her latest show in 2003.