Featured in the de Young exhibit Revelations: Art from the African American South through April 1, 2018
We’re delighted to announce the acquisition Kara Walker’s Resurrection Story with Patrons. Walker is an African-American contemporary artist who was born in Stockton, but was raised from the age of 13 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Incorporating the triptych format of a traditional religious altarpiece, the etching depicts in its central panel a monumental sculpture of a black female, which towers over the figures that struggle to excavate and raise it upright. The artwork is currently on view in the exhibit Revelations: Art from the African American South at the de Young. The exhibit opened last June, and will be up through the first of April next year.
Walker made the work immediately after a stay in Rome, during which she reflected upon the recent surge in racially motivated crimes throughout the United States.
Resurrection Story with Patrons enriches our collection of Walker’s work, which includes a silhouette collage from 1994 and the 2013 artist-illustrated book Porgy and Bess. Walker burst into the art world in 1994, and has become known for her cutout silhouetted figures engaging in stereotypical and grotesque slavery horrors such as rape, dismemberment and lynching.
For more information about the Revelations exhibit: https://deyoung.famsf.org/press-room/revelations-art-african-american-south
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