General Studies Lounge

An Evening of
Art

At the Whitney

What: Kara Walker Exhibit

When: Friday, 7^th at 6PM

Where: Whitney Museum
(945 Madison Avenue at 75^th)

Cost:    FREE!!!  with Columbia ID

Join your fellow GSers for a
chance to see the Kara Walker Exhibit at the Whitney Museum:

from your GSSC Arts Initiative tour guide William Melendez:

"I will be wearing a Columbia hooded sweater with a blazer
on top.  I will make sure to be standing directly at the entrance to
the Whitney.  I will wait from 6PM till 6:30 PM for anyone to show up.
Afterwards I can be found inside exactly at the Walker exhibit."  

William's phone number is 646-316-7016, and his email is  wm2140@columbia.edu

Click here or on the image below to find out more about the Kara Walker exhibit at the Whitney.

‘Kara Walker unveiled a daring
reinvention of image-making in which she incorporated the genteel
eighteenth-century medium of cut-paper silhouettes into her paintings. Drawing
her inspiration from sources as varied as the antebellum South, testimonial
slave narratives, historical novels, and minstrel shows, Walker has invented a repertoire of powerful
narratives in which she conflates fact and fiction to uncover the living roots
of racial and gender bias. The intricacy of her imagination and her diligent
command of art history have caused her silhouettes to cast shadows on
conventional thinking about race representation in the context of
discrimination, exclusion, sexual desire, and love.

This exhibition presents a
comprehensive grouping of the artist’s work to date, featuring more than 200
paintings, drawings, collages, shadow-puppetry, light projections, and video
animations that offer an extended contemplation on the nature of figurative
representation and narrative in contemporary art.’