Published on occasion of the exhibitions "Meditations in an Emergency" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, October 28, 2006 through April 29, 2007.

Meditations in an Emergency

Kara Walker

Tabaimo

Mark Bradford

Christopher Fachini

Barry McGee

Roxy Paine

Paul Pfeiffer

Jonathan Pylypchuk

Nari Ward

Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made of cut-paper silhouettes. She has an extremely realistic approach to society and the human race, and the core of her work are racism, apartheid, exploitation, gender issues, social injustice, slavery and the horrors that it created. Texts by Hilton Als and Francisco Calvo Serraller

Kara Walker - The Black Road

Cac Malaga

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary political moment. The book comes with a poster.

Kara Walker - Book of Hours

Roma Publications

Kara Walker began this sketchbook in Munich in 1999, when she was 29 years old. Like most sketchbooks it served as a portal between the real world and the realm of her imagination. Although it was never intended to be shared, nevertheless quite a bit of work came out of this particular book, including the installation Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On), which is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. However, that is an exception to the rule. For the most part the pages in this sketchbook reflect uneasy, unrefined, unfinished thoughts and anxieties, written and drawn with no objectives, no ulterior motives, and no filters.

Kara Walker - MCMXCIX

Ari Marcopoulos - Ainsi Soit-Il

Ari Marcopoulos

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