Kara Walker Spotlights Barack Obama in Allegorical Works on Paper

Best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes that evoke themes of African American racial identity, American contemporary artist Kara Walker is displaying a new series of work, titled Drawings, at New York City's Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The show is previewing a selection of works on paper that will be included in Walker's first major exhibition in Switzerland at the Kunstmuseum Basel which is scheduled to take place in May.Previously kept within her private archive, these sketches, collages and ...