Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure ou… - Kara Walker
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure ou…
- Kara Walker
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does. - Kara Walker
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' - Kara Walker
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I want… - Kara Walker
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I want…
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern… - Kara Walker
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern…
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind… - Kara Walker
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind…
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is… - Kara Walker
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is…
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history. - Kara Walker
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'strugg… - Kara Walker
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'strugg…
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