Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Westwood,CA

The first comprehensive survey of the artist's work, including light projections, video installations and text works related to Walker's trademark black and white silhouetted tableaux of the plantation South.



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Box Office: 310-443-7000
Walker's cheerfully ferocious subject is black experience in a proud nation whose prosperity and might were substantially built on the degrading legacy of black slavery. The first room features a 50-foot-wide diorama in which silhouette figures attached to the curved wall are slightly larger than life-size. The refined, formal elegance of the artist's debonair design sense is put to the rudest ends. She goes for the subliminal, just below a sensory threshold that divides the world into comfortable dualities of good and evil, purity and vice, conqueror and casualty. Despite the materials of cut paper on gallery walls, Walker's spiritual and emotional world is neither black nor white. Instead, panoplies of gray flood the scene and an impure vision of racial and gender identity arises (C.K.).