Kara Walker, Keys to the Coop, 1997, Linoleum Cut
" 'I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn't walk away,' Walker has said about her shadowy representations of America's dark conscience, where 'he would giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful.' That she has done, and in spades. Few exhibitions are as important as Walker's array of formal elegance and cruel imagery currently at the Whitney. An achievement on the scale of the great art dramas (think Guernica or the cultural reach of Mexican muralism), Walker's capacious art addresses everyone—young and old, black and white, guilty-feeling and not— as ultimately sinning and sinned against."
You know what made my day? Checking my e-mail and finding a link to not one, but two articles on the art, life, and times of Kara Walker.
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