Also drawn in part from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition features Chakaia Booker's
rubber tire sculpture El Gato (2001).
Not exact matches
NEW YORK — Chakaia Booker uses recycled
rubber tires to create the layered and textured surfaces that define her
sculptures.
Detail of «Shape Shifter,» 2012 (
rubber tires and stainless steel), included in a group of five
sculptures by Chakaia Booker.
Chakaia Booker's
rubber tires and stainless steel
sculpture «Deja Vu» (2016) sits in Millennium Park's Boeing Galleries in Chicago, Illinois, on November 5, 2016.
When he flooded his silkscreens with images of JFK and rocket launches snatched from newspapers, magazines or TV; when he affixed a taxidermied bald eagle to a painting («Canyon») or made an Angora goat encircled by a
rubber tire the centerpiece of a combine («Monogram»); when he riveted road signs and car parts together in a
sculpture («Stop Side Early Winter Glut»), he was pursuing an omnivorous communal imperative.
ATLANTA — Black
rubber fragments from recycled
tires have been painstakingly twisted, knotted and folded to create the complex and expressive abstract
sculpture «Mixed Messages,» by artist Chakaia Booker.