Gender and art

NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents Afterword, a solo exhibition of recent work by Kara Walker, on view from November 21, 2014 through January 17, 2015.

Afterword elaborates on the creation and aftermath of Kara Walker’s monumental installation at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this past summer. Commissioned and presented by Creative Time and entitled A Subtlety, or the marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes form the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant, the exhibition was inspired by and embedded with the history of sugar and the sugar trade, the focus of which was a colossal, sugar-coated sphinx-like figure that presided over the cavernous, 30,000- square foot space. 

http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/?v=exhibitions

Creative Time presents Kara Walker’s first public artwork, opening in the former Domino Sugar Factory on May 10. The installation transforms the iconic industrial space into a site of awe, provocation, and contemplation.

From May 10 through July 6, a monumental, immersive new work by legendary artist Kara Walker will dramatically transform the former Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Walker’s highly anticipated project, which represents a major departure from her practice to date, responds to the history of the industrial site with a radical work that is both inspired by and embedded with the history of sugar and the sugar trade, including its many implications past and present. It promises simultaneously to provoke, engage, charm, and challenge visitors. Commissioned and presented by Creative Time, this is Walker’s first major public project. 

Kara Walker

A Subtlety

May 10–July 6, 2014

Domino Sugar Factory, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

http://creativetime.org/

"Kara Walker has caused controversy with her graphically violent silhouette artwork. Metro meets her ahead of her first British solo show.

When first confronted with the extraordinary silhouette artwork of Kara Walker, they take a while to process. The large-scale cut-out figures are stark, vibrant and strangely alluring… and yet… look closer and unease grows. What you’re peering at are gross racial caricatures from the Jim Crow-era Deep South, and what they’re doing or having done to them – polymorphous perverse and graphically violent – is deeply alarming."

Kara Walker at Camden Arts Centre, London

11 October 2013 - 5 January 2014

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/walker

"Kara Walker is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes arranged on white walls and set in the ante­bellum American South. The contrast between the delicacy of the figures and the depravities of the behaviour they are engaged in, scenes of unimaginable cruelty depicted with bacchanalian abandon, is what gives much of her art its power. For her latest work—a massive sculptural installation opening this week at the disused Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn—she is exploring America’s racial history in a radically different style." 

"Kara Walker is one of the most successful and widely known contemporary African American artists today; she is remarkable for her radical engagement with issues of race, gender, and sexuality and the media with which she pursues her studies. Though mainly celebrated for her provocative installations, composed of cut-paper silhouettes, Walker’s work in other media is equally strong and expands on the many powerful themes and questions of her practice. Drawn from Jordan Schnitzer’s collection, the exhibition includes several of Walker’s large-scale print series, cut-steel sculptures, a wall painting, and a video.  The works selected display the range of approaches Walker has taken to exploring the legacy of slavery for contemporary American identity."

Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power

January 25, 2014 to April 06, 2014

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene

- See more at: http://jsma.uoregon.edu/KaraWalker#sthash.eA35ifCk.dpuf