Kara E. Walker's Song Of The South September 3 - October 23, 2005 Opening reception: Friday, September 2, 6 - 9 pm Closing reception: Sunday, October 23, 6 - 9 pm With performances by the artist at 7:00 pm at the opening and closing receptions

Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion 2001, Cut paper and projection on wall, Installation view, Brent Sikkema, New York, Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

REDCAT presents new work by Kara Walker. Best known for her work reducing representation to its base with her use of black silhouettes, Walker will expand upon some of her more recent experiments into projected light and shadow, live performance, and film and video. Kara Walker's "historical" shadow dramas depict unseemly acts of sex, birth, dismemberment and play that accentuate the slippery separations between dominance and desire, fantasy and fear. The artist's installation at REDCAT continues her recent experiments with projection and shadow, live performance, animation and film including her 2004 installation and performance at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts. For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 1998, Walker carves out a clearing among a façade of moody trees and darkness. Into this makeshift set she injects variations on projected light: a new 16mm film, overhead projections, a shadow puppet performance. The exhibition features the premiere of the film ...Possible Beginnings or the Creation of African-America A Moving Picture by the young, self-taught, Genius of the South K.E. Walker. Walker will "perform" in the Gallery at REDCAT at her opening on September 2 as well as at her closing reception on October 23, 2005. Kara Walker received her M.F.A. in painting/printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Her work has been exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstverein Hannover; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1997, she received a MacArthur Foundation Award, and in 2002 she represented the U.S. at the São Paulo Biennale, Brazil. Walker recently completed a permanent installation at The New School for Social Research in New York. She was born in Stockton, California, and lives and works in New York. KARA E. WALKER'S SONG OF THE SOUTH is the artist's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. This exhibition is made possible in part by the generous support of Steve Martin, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and V. Joy Simmons.

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