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Kara Walker

A Subtlety
SPRING 2014

The first large-scale public project by Kara Walker,. Sited in the sprawling industrial relics of Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar Factory, Walker’s physically and conceptually expansive installation—a massive, sugar-coated sphinx-like woman—responded to the building and its history. A joint collaboration of with Kara Walker, Art Dumontay Art Works, Creative Time and Sculpture House.

Client

Creative Time

Exhibited

Domino Sugar Factory

Material

#2 EPS foam, and sugar

Dimensions

35 x 75 ft.

Kara Walker: A Subtlety

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Kara Walker: A Subtlety

In late spring of 2014, Creative Time presented the first large-scale public project by Kara Walker, one of the most important artists of our era. Sited in the sprawling industrial relics of Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar Factory, Walker’s physically and conceptually expansive installation—a massive, sugar-coated sphinx-like woman—responded to the building and its history.

As is her custom, the artist gave this work a title that is at once poetic and descriptive: “A Subtlety” or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
a homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant.

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