The Youngest African American Artist Kara - 892 Words

Below is a brief biography of one of the youngest African American artist Kara Elizabeth Walker. Walker was born in November 26, 1969 in Stockton, California, US. Currently, she lives in New York, NY. Walker’s dad Larry Walker is an art professor and her mother Gwen Walker is a clothing designer. In 1996, Walker married Klaus Burgel, who is a jewelry designer and they both gave a birth to a daughter name Octavia. Walker has been educated at Atlanta College of Art, BA, 1991 and Rhode Island school of design, 1994. Just right after she graduated in 1994, she started a career as a professor. However, the time when she traveled to New York City to join a meeting, her friend persuaded her to hand in her work in the Drawing Center. That was the turning point of a professor to an artist (â€Å"Kara Walker† Contemporary). Walker worked in a several of medium such as: â€Å"Paper cutouts, gouache mixed with coffee, brass rubbing and overhead projectors† (Harvey). Through the article â€Å"Black and White, but Never Simple† in The New York Times, 2007, Walker inspired by many artists. Those people include Andy Warhol, Robert Colescott and Adrian Piper. Walker was in to Andy Warhol because of his voracious look and ethical (Cotter). Next is Robert Colescott, â€Å"who inserted cartoon blacks, grinning Dixie sharecroppers into van Gogh’s Dutch peasant cottages† (Cotter). The last one was Adrian Piper, who is a conceptualist and her works are focus on racism (Cotter). Andy Warhol, Robert Colescott and