Exploring Kara Walker’s Radical Use of Silhouettes | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Kara Walker, from the "Stories" episode in Season 2 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Stories" premiered in September 2003 on PBS.
“The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events, a point in history and nothing else,” says Kara Walker about her subversive use of the traditional silhouette technique. The segment traces the evolution of Walker’s work, from time spent in the studio to the artist’s recent installations of projected light.
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
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Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Assistant Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Alice Bertoni & Laura Recht. Production Coordinator: Kelly Shindler & Sara Simonson. Director of Education & Outreach: Jessica Hamlin. Consulting Director: Charles Atlas. Editor: Kate Taverna. Host Segment Artist: Charles Atlas. Host: John Waters. Director of Photography: Mark Falstad, Mead Hunt, Tom Hurwitz, Dave Insley, Cameron Wookyoung Kim, Ken Kobland, Nancy Schreiber, & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Rick Angelella, Taylor Braendel, Tom Bergin, Gordon Glascock, Sangil Han, Heidi Hesse, Jerry Stein, Scott Szabo, & Bill Wander. Gaffer/Grip: Kyle Carver, Mark Clark, Rodney French, Ned Hallick, Jeff Howison, Sam Insley, & John Roche. Assistant Camera: Jarred Alterman, Marie Chao, Chris de Gail, Anthony Fennell, Woosuck Goh, Brian Hwang, Steve Nealey, & Kipjaz Savoie. Host Make-Up: Betty Beebe. Production Assistant: Mark Chavarria, Eli Flugelman, Josh Kurz, Eric Kutner, Tony Petracci, & Matt Wright. Teleprompter: Dominic Anello. Additional Avid Editor (Kiki Smith segment): Lizzie Donahue. Assistant Avid Editor: Anne Alvergue, Heather Burack, Julie Farol, Geoff Gruetzmacher, & Eric Kutner. Still Photography: Alice Bertoni, Peter Krogh, & Fraser Stables.
Creative Consultant: Ed Sherin. Graphic Design & Animation: Open, New York. Animation, Visual Effects & Compositing: Spontaneous Combustion. On-Line Editor: Don Wyllie & Frame:Runner NYC. Composer: Peter Foley. Voice-Over Artist: Jace Alexander. Sound Editing: Margaret Crimmins, Greg Smith, & Dog Bark Sound. Sound Mix: Tony Volante & Soundtrack F/T. Animation Stand: Frank Ferrigno & Frame:Runner NYC.
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[@troygaspard6732]

I first saw her work nearly 20 years ago. The simplicity is the power.

[@Aljobritt]

WOW! thank you for the video!😊

[@lightuponlight6727]

Brilliant and utterly fascinating...

[@gabrielmaroto18]

Magnificent!❤

[@EBeverly-gv4ln]

I haven’t seen anything this intense in a really long time. And so well executed. I’d love to see what she does next.

[@myradioon]

This is from the early 2000's I believe. She branched out and did an installation at the Domino Sugar Factory In Brooklyn where she made a large Sphinx out of sugar. She got a MacArthur Fellowship at some point in there.

[@art21org]

@@myradioon We were there at the Domino Sugar Factory too! Check it out: th-cam.com/video/sRkP5rcXtys/w-d-xo.html

[@cdchalmers]

"How do you make representations of your world, given what you've been given?"

[@ToyasTales]

One of my favorite artists!

[@arthurcharlier509]

ME TOO !!!

[@jasons.8125]

I saw one of the old South panoramas at The Broad in LA. If I didn't realize Kara was a genius then - I sure do now that I've heard her voice.

[@Ms.Joladeartclasses]

She can draw! I respect that!!!!

[@MyMusics101]

Fascinating

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Yep.

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The best best best

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flabbergasting

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This is dumb

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