Article: Kara Walker: romance, race, slavery and sex influence celebrated visual artist's work.(ARTIST PROFILE)(Biography)

Often dressed in funky, chic or romantic hipster styles, Kara Walker considers her words carefully as she speaks in quiet, gentle tones. While Walker's demeanor is calm like her soft, doe-like eyes, her work exploded like a bomb in the New York art world after she received a master's in fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997.

Indeed, not many African-American artists can make the claims Walker can. Just two years out of art school, she was well on her way to superstardom, including whining a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award. Her first show, Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs ...

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