Kara Walker

Kara Walker is an artist whose style is reminiscent of my own artistic habits. She primarily makes silhouette art dealing with the culture of slavery, and has become quite controversial as a result.

She paints large, black silhouettes on tall white museum walls, and occasionally lights the rooms in unexpected ways. Her figures are simply amazing...they are black silhouettes of slaves, but they have so much life and vigor to them. They are stylized just enough to make them look more alive than real people, but not so much that they do not seem realistic.

It's all definitely worth a look.