The silhouette reduces an object to its most basic form. Its historical uses in art can be seen in the paper cuts of Hans Christian Andersen and the artwork of Kara Walker. In photographic terms ...

Kara Walker, then 22 -- and only five years from winning a MacArthur "genius" award -- had an epiphany while looking at a 19th-century silhouette of a young black girl in profile. She later recalled ...

Her show at the Whitney— Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love—reveals how subversive and disturbing a silhouette can be. Focused on the untold narratives of African ...

Kara Walker A series of the artist’s works on show in 2013 at the Camden Arts Centre in London focused on the white supremacist movement and gun culture in the US. “[Walker’s silhouettes ...

“One of the things Kara Walker is really interested in is the stereotype and how related that is to silhouettes, which was a sort of charming way of doing portraiture in the South in the 18th ...

Making silhouettes, Walker wrote to Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw for her book “Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker,” in 2004, “kind of saved me. Simplified the frenzy I was working ...

Kara Walker, “My Complement ... When she installed that silhouette mural, called Slavery! Slavery!, she’d hoped to extend the round room in which the cut-paper scene was mounted, like the ...

Following her massive installation at New York’s Domino Sugar Factory, artist Kara Walker continues to fearlessly confront attitudes towards race, women and sexuality. EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO ...