March 2 - June 8, 2008
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
About the Exhibition
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love is the first comprehensive presentation of this remarkable African American artist’s career. Walker has risen to international prominence for visually stunning works that challenge conventional narratives of American history and the antebellum South. With biting humor, the artist comments on race, slavery and liberation, sexual attraction and exploitation, discrimination, and modernity. The Hammer is the only West Coast venue for the show, which originated at the Walker Art Center and has traveled to the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. It has been curated by Walker Art Center’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director Philippe Vergne. Kara Walker is a particularly meaningful exhibition for the Hammer Museum, as Walker was the first artist to be featured in the now-celebrated Hammer Projects series, which offers solo exhibitions to emerging artists.Audio Tour
An audio tour is available on your cell phone by calling 612-374-8222 or by subscribing to our RSS feed using iTunes or another aggregator.
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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love was organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. It is made possible by generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the Lannan Foundation, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Linda and Lawrence Perlman, and Marge and Irv Weiser. Additional support is provided by Jean-Pierre and Rachel Lehmann.
Major support for the Hammer Museum’s presentation is provided by The Broad Art Foundation and The Joy and Jerry Monkarsh Family Foundation.
It is also made possible through the generosity of the Lannan Foundation, Susan and Larry Marx, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, George Freeman, and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Public programs for the exhibition are supported by Catherine Benkaim and Barbara Timmer.
Major support for the Hammer Museum’s presentation is provided by The Broad Art Foundation and The Joy and Jerry Monkarsh Family Foundation.
It is also made possible through the generosity of the Lannan Foundation, Susan and Larry Marx, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, George Freeman, and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Public programs for the exhibition are supported by Catherine Benkaim and Barbara Timmer.
Wednesday Feb 27, 12pmBunche Center Circle of Thought
Kara Walker in Conversation with Steven Nelson
Steven Nelson, Associate Professor of African and African American Art History and Vice-Chair of the UCLA Department of Art History, is the author of From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and out of Africa. He has written extensively on the contemporary and historic arts, architecture and urbanism of Africa and its diasporas, African American art history, and queer studies.
Co-presented with the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. This event takes place at Haines Hall 135, for information call 310-206-8267.
Wednesday Mar 12, 6pmExhibition Walk-Through
With Paul Von Blum
With Paul Von Blum, senior lecturer in African American Studies, Communication Studies, and Art History at UCLA. Von Blum has taught at the University of California for 38 years and has received Distinguished Teaching Awards at UC Berkeley and UCLA. His most recent book is RESISTANCE, DIGNITY, AND PRIDE: African American Artists in Los Angeles, published by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.
Saturday Apr 26, 2pmExhibition Walk-Through
With Ken Gonzales-Day
With artist Ken Gonzales-Day, associate professor and chair of the Department of Art at Scripps College, and author of Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. Gonzales-Day has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at LAXART; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; CUE Art Foundation; and White Columns, New York. His work is also included in the upcoming exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Saturday May 3, 10amUCLA Extension Course: Racial Stereotypes and Artistic Resistance
The Work of Kara Walker
Saturdays, May 3 & 10, 10am - 1pm
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition, this two-day course taught by Paul Von
Blum, senior lecturer in African American Studies, Communication Studies, and Art History at UCLA, presents an overview of Kara Walker’s work followed by a visit to the exhibition.
To register for the course please call 310-206-1422 or visit www.uclaextension.edu. Hammer Members receive a special discount on registration.
Wednesday May 14, 7pmPanel Discussion: Word is Bond
History, Storytelling, and the Work of Kara Walker
Roderick A. Ferguson is associate professor of race and critical theory in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Jenny Sharpe is professor of English at UCLA and author of Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archeology of Black Women’s Lives, which moves between past and present, history and fiction, in order to tell the everyday life stories of slave women. Organized and moderated by Naima Keith, PhD candidate, Department of Art History, UCLA.
Friday Jun 6, 7pmClosing Party
Hammer Bash!
Cash bar and DJ in the courtyard. Extended gallery hours: 7-11pm.
Free admission!