Emancipating the past: Kara Walker’s tales of slavery and power
Exhibition dates: Sept 12, 2015-Jan 3, 2016
Reception September 11, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
The exhibition brings together 60 works from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation in a variety of mediums, from large-scale printmaking to metal sculpture, shadow puppetry, and film. Kara Walker is best known for her black but-paper silhouettes that explore the painful history of American race relations and its contemporary paradoxes. Set primarily in the American pre-Civil War antebellum South, Walker questions traditional narratives of race, gender, sex and power through exaggerated truths and fictionalized events leaving viewers to unpack, sort out, and ultimately decide which elements are true.
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