SFMOMA: Kara Walker’s Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Free Opening Reception)

Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)*, located in the museum’s free ground floor Roberts Family Gallery, will open to the public starting at 10 a.m. on July 1, with a special community opening reception to follow from 4–6 p.m. that day. The fascinating installation is Walker’s most ambitious public project to date and features a field of automatons trapped in a never-ending cycle of ritual and struggle. Situated within an energetically charged field of black obsidian from Mt. Konocti in Lake County, California—a volcanic glass with deep spiritual properties—Walker’s automatons evoke wonder, reflection, respite, and hope. This free public opening reception will include a cash bar.

*Full Exhibition Title:
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler.

Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners

Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious

by Kara E-Walker

WHEN:

Kara Walker’s Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) Opening Reception

Monday, July 1, 4–6 p.m.

WHERE:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA

HOW:

Reserve free tickets in advance at tickets.sfmoma.org

Reserve free tickets in advance for Kara Walker’s opening reception at https://www.sfmoma.org/event/opening-reception-kara-walker/

More information about visiting SFMOMA at sfmoma.org/visit

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About the artist

New York–based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigations of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in exhibitions worldwide. Walker’s work can be found in numerous museums and public collections, including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Gallery, London; the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), Rome; and Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt. She lives and works in New York.

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