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Kara Walker

Born November 26, 1969 · Stockton, California, USA (age 56)

Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.

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Palacetor

Palacetor · 2016

Gary Graham assembles an inspiring cast of seven leading ladies—including Parker Posey, Kara Walker, and Sunrise Ruffalo—to bring his Fall ‘16 collection to life.

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale · 2011

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale is a shadow puppet narrative, which follows the travails of the heroine, Miss Pipi, intercut with shadow puppet “abstracts” of a surreal and violent nature. The subtext of the video is the mythology surrounding white Southern womanhood, historically cited time and time again as an entity to be protected from sexuality, in particular from the presumed hyper-sexuality of black men. Although fiction, this was the excuse for the murder of countless black men and boys in Jim Crow America. Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale is meant to be as deeply contradictory a visual tale as the Blues is in music. Delta Blues often merges broad comedy with despair, sensuality with loss and do-it-yourself urgency with structured improvisation.

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Palacetor

Palacetor · 2016

Gary Graham assembles an inspiring cast of seven leading ladies—including Parker Posey, Kara Walker, and Sunrise Ruffalo—to bring his Fall ‘16 collection to life.

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Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale · 2011

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale is a shadow puppet narrative, which follows the travails of the heroine, Miss Pipi, intercut with shadow puppet “abstracts” of a surreal and violent nature. The subtext of the video is the mythology surrounding white Southern womanhood, historically cited time and time again as an entity to be protected from sexuality, in particular from the presumed hyper-sexuality of black men. Although fiction, this was the excuse for the murder of countless black men and boys in Jim Crow America. Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale is meant to be as deeply contradictory a visual tale as the Blues is in music. Delta Blues often merges broad comedy with despair, sensuality with loss and do-it-yourself urgency with structured improvisation.

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