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Larry Walker

b. 1935 in Franklin, Georgia

Larry Walker was born in Franklin, Georgia but spent the beginning of his life in New York City. He graduated from New York’s renowned High School of Music & Art, after which he received his BS in art education and a MA in drawing and painting from Wayne State University in Detroit. He has taught at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, and at Georgia State University where he served as the School of Art and Design's director for 11 years. Walker has had numerous solo exhibitions, with an ever expanding career that includes more than 100 exhibitions. Walker was chosen as one of three recipients of MOCA GA’s 2007/2008 inaugural Working Artist Project Award. As part of the award, he mounted a solo exhibition at MOCA GA entitled Surface, Spirit Voices and Other Secrets: The Wall Series in Transition. Walker also curated the MOCA GA exhibition Dissolving Stereotypes/Forging New Dialogues: An Exhibition Beyond Race.  

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Larry Walker

Wall Spirits and Other Secrets:

Believe 01.20.09, 2008

Mixed media on three panels

72 x 144 inches

Working Artist Project 2007-2008

Accession # 2010.040

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