Charles Walker | Florida Highwaymen Paintings

Have you seen this massive artwork at the High yet? Artist Kara Walker works across media to address racial prejudice and inequality embedded in contemporary society. In her best known work, she uses silhouettes to create provocative imagery using a visual vocabulary dating to the antebellum era. Her installations satirize the false propriety of the slaveholding Old South, speaking directly to issues of race, identity, privilege and injustice in contemporary society. Walker employs racist stereo