Kara Walker is an artist from California, who went to Rhode Island School of Design. At a first glance, many of her art has a similar style. Which includes two toned black and white drawings and of figures that are the highlight. Her artwork ranges from being a silhouette artist, painter, installation artist, print maker and more. But Walker’s work is actually a lot more complex and deep from just one look. Walker is famously known for her silhouette figures, which explores areas in race, gender but also the figures/characters are known to give a certain violent type of atmosphere. Her style goes over history of slaves and she adds a storytelling depiction in her work. Kara Walker does lots of paper cutting of life sized figures into her artworks. Some images of her work that I found interesting are included below.
Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)2005
Glenn Miquel 