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Kara Walker: The Shadow of the Plantation Kara Walker (b. 1969) rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with a medium that was as archaic as it was unsettling: the black paper silhouette. Historically, silhouettes were a Victorian parlor craft used for family portraits. Walker hijacked this “polite” medium to depict the “grotesque” realities of the…
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Julie Mehretu: Mapping the Psychogeography of Chaos The Biography: Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, to an Ethiopian father and an American mother. Her family fled the country during the political turmoil of the late 1970s, settling in the United States. This early experience of displacement and the “mapping” of a…
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Chidozie Maduka: Healing the Invisible with a Lens Most people see a binary choice between the precision of engineering and the fluid emotion of art. For Chidozie Maduka, they are two sides of the same coin—a way to understand the structures of our world and the spirit that inhabits them. A graduate of Civil Engineering…