| Kara Walker 2006March 4, 2006- April 1, 2006
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to announce its exhibitions: Turn the Beat Around and Kara Walker from March 4 – April 1, 2006.
In the south galleries, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. will present recent work by Kara Walker. Walker’s second film project, Eight Possible Beginnings… employs a series of montages using animated cut-paper marionettes to draw a picture of the nascent Antebellum South that is at times darkly menacing, and at others disturbingly comical. Likewise, Walker has added the element of sound – popular music from the turn of the century and her own narration – to the film. This will be the first New York showing of the work, which debuted in fall 2005 at REDCAT, Los Angeles. Walker will also exhibit a series of new graphite and ink pen drawings.
Reviews of Kara Walker 2006Village Voice
March 23, 2006 | | Jerry Saltz | | "...Although her art can be uneven, scant, or stunted, Walker is the closest the United States has yet come to producing a sensibility like Goya's. She is not, of course, the equal of this Spanish master, but she does delve into the night of history, the mystery of suffering, and the dominion of pain with similar self-effacement, cunning, and an assassin's eye for detail. In Walker's work sex is both a reality and a metaphor for the profound violation that slavery and its long aftermath represent and the distorting accommodations they have fostered...." |
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