Kara Walker.

Kara Walker was born on 26 November 1969 in Stockton , California she is a contemporary african american artist 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.

Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant.

She explains why she became an artist:

“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker

I think every single piece of work she does is telling a story , some of them are nice stories but some of them are really sad but true. She uses history to do her work, her work explains and shows a part of a history mostly slavery time which shows a really big attatchment to the history and also big knowladge about this.

I like her work which is really interesting and tells a story that is really well known to everybody but its shown in different scales, bigger is dominant and the smaller is the weaker ones.