Kara Walker

Kara Walker, daughter of artist Larry Walker was born in Stockton, California. At the age of 13 kara moved to Stone Mountain, Alabama. Some of her experiences growing up in the South as well as her views on the world inspires her art. The life size or larger tableaux are loaded with many themes. Her over all theme deals with power struggles, then the types of struggles within. Her work mimics the subtle beauty of the Antebellum South while speaking about ugly truths involving race, history, physicality, sex, and personal issues. For me, it reads like a dark satire. It is a sound balance between compelling, beautifully crafted work and heavy, pugnacious subject matter.