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Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California on November 26, 1969. At the age of thirteen, Walker moved to Georgia when her father, Larry Walker, a painter, accepted a teaching position at the Atlanta College of Art. In the south, she learned more about the history of slavery as well as life on the plantation and the ante-bellum south. Her upbringing became the inspiration for many of her cut-out paper silhouettes. This led Kara Walker to create her installations to be seen as fictitious narratives, wherein she uses images and stereotypes to drive or question the issue that she was trying to portray, whether it be power, sexuality, race, emotion, etc. Therefore, Kara Walker's pieces work on two levels, both as individual figures and as a whole work in order to reveal the darkness of humanity through the different power struggles of race, emotion, sexuality, history, and the artist’s self perception as illustrated through her varied silhouettes.
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