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Photos: A look at the exhibit "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick" on display at MOCA Jax

Bob Self
Florida Times-Union
A detail of pieces from Kara Walker's "Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching" from 2006 made of painted laser cut steel on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A detail of pieces from Kara Walker's "Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching" from 2006 made of painted laser cut steel on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
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A portion of the room filling screenprint series "The Emancipation Approximation" by Kara Walker created between 1999-2000 on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A portion of the room filling screenprint series "The Emancipation Approximation" by Kara Walker created between 1999-2000 on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
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A portion of the room filling screenprint series "The Emancipation Approximation" by Kara Walker created between 1999-2000 on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A portion of the room filling screenprint series "The Emancipation Approximation" by Kara Walker created between 1999-2000 on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
A visitor looks at Kara Walker's large scale Linocut print "African/American from 1998 on display as part of the new exhibit of Walker's work from 1994-2019 currently on display at the MOCA Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A visitor looks at Kara Walker's large scale Linocut print "African/American from 1998 on display as part of the new exhibit of Walker's work from 1994-2019 currently on display at the MOCA Jacksonville Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
Images from Kara Walker's "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" where Walker enlarged the civil war era illustrations from the newspaper and layered them with her signature silhouette imagery to obscure and subvert the original message of the illustrations Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Images from Kara Walker's "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" where Walker enlarged the civil war era illustrations from the newspaper and layered them with her signature silhouette imagery to obscure and subvert the original message of the illustrations Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
Images from Kara Walker's "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" where Walker enlarged the civil war era illustrations from the newspaper and layered them with her signature silhouette imagery to obscure and subvert the original message of the illustrations Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Images from Kara Walker's "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" where Walker enlarged the civil war era illustrations from the newspaper and layered them with her signature silhouette imagery to obscure and subvert the original message of the illustrations Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
A copy of Kara Walker's leather bound limited edition pop-up style book "Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times" from 1997 on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A copy of Kara Walker's leather bound limited edition pop-up style book "Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times" from 1997 on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
A series of Kara Walker's painted black stainless steel cut-outs entitled "The Bush, Skinny, De-boning" from 2002 on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A series of Kara Walker's painted black stainless steel cut-outs entitled "The Bush, Skinny, De-boning" from 2002 on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
Images from Kara Walker's series of prints entitled "An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters" created in 2010 is a fictionalized account of the Middle Passage created via etching with aquatint, sugar lift, spitbite, and drypoint, on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Images from Kara Walker's series of prints entitled "An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters" created in 2010 is a fictionalized account of the Middle Passage created via etching with aquatint, sugar lift, spitbite, and drypoint, on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
Kara Walker's "Chanterelle Menus: Untitled" on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Kara Walker's "Chanterelle Menus: Untitled" on display Wednesday, June 29, 2022. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
A small bronze replica of "Fons Americanus". The original was over 40 feet tall and built for a show at the Tate Modern in England which was destroyed after the show was over. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
A small bronze replica of "Fons Americanus". The original was over 40 feet tall and built for a show at the Tate Modern in England which was destroyed after the show was over. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African American's in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union
"The Katastwof Karavan" by Kara Walker. This painted laser-cut stainless steel piece created in 2017 is a small-scale version of a full-sized wagon she created that contained a working steam calliope. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African Americans in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
"The Katastwof Karavan" by Kara Walker. This painted laser-cut stainless steel piece created in 2017 is a small-scale version of a full-sized wagon she created that contained a working steam calliope. "Kara Walker, Cut to the Quick", a traveling exhibit from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Walker's work deals loosely with the uncomfortable history of African Americans in America with historic and mythological references that are powerful and challenging to the viewer on many levels.
Bob Self/Florida Times-Union