Julian Post 3 Kara Walker

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/arts/design/a-subtlety-or-the-marvelous-sugar-baby-at-the-domino-plant.html

https://dreamscapesphotography.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/intersectionality-and-kara-walker/

Attached is a link to an article about ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’, an art piece by my favorite artist Kara walker and a piece about Kara walker and intersectionality in modern art.  Walker is an inspiration that uses many different creative mediums to talk about gender, race, and society. Most of her pieces are installations are black cutouts on wide-stretching while walls that play on the characterization of African American’s in American society. They are beautiful and quite striking, even more so in person. She is also an advocate for intersectional feminism and her work ties nicely into many of the themes of our course.  I hope you like the piece, or at least the provocative nature of her work sparks your interest! Description of the piece and her work:

“A looming 35 feet tall, Sugar Baby is ensconced toward the back of an enormous warehouse, built in the late 19th century, that Domino once used for storing raw sugar cane as it arrived by boat from the Caribbean for refinement and packaging. Once a luxury — subtleties were sugar sculptures made for the rich as edible table-decorations — sugar became more widely available due in large part to slave labor. No wonder its journey north may bring to mind the Middle Passage endured by Africans forced across the Atlantic.”

"Kara Walker is an African-American feminist artist who deals with the particular experiences of belonging to two minorities, confronting both sexism and racism. Walker challenges her audiences by recalling the realities of slavery and its role and legacy in American history. Walker’s early work explored this through an aesthetic of large, black cut-out silhouettes pasted onto the gallery walls."