LIVE from the NYPL: Kara Walker

One of today’s most significant and complex contemporary artists, Kara Walker, reflects on themes of race, gender, sexuality, violence and subjugation in her visually striking work.

New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for cut-paper silhouettes and tableaus that complicate traditional narratives of power and repression. Walker’s provocative work, which has taken the form of drawing, painting, text-based work, video, film, performance and cyclorama, retells historic moments, such as slavery in the Antebellum South and Hurricane Katrina, and has frequently been the subject of controversy.

She has received numerous awards, perhaps most notably in 1997, when she was the second-youngest person ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”

Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. EST.