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CHAKAIA BOOKER

Date: September 14, 2016.

Event: Installation and Opening Reception of
Exhibition of Discarded Tire Artwork by Chakaia Booker

Location: Boeing Galleries at Millennium Park

Temporary Exhibition: April 30, 2016 – April 2018

Chakaia Booker is the first African American artist to be showcased in the Boeing Gallery

Photo courtesy Nathan Mason.

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Discarded Tire Artwork by Chakaia Booker at Millennium Park

The Millennium Park Boeing Galleries was venue for series of rotating exhibitions of world-class Contemporary Art by living artists. The 2016 exhibition includes the works by Chakaia Booker:
North Boeing Gallery [from north to south]: LBD Duty Free (2014), Pass the Buck (2008), One Way (2008) and ShapeShifter (2012) and . A seventh, site-responsive sculpture (a new work) will be added in September 2016 in the South Boeing Gallery.
South Boeing Gallery [from north to south] : Take Out (2008), Deja Vu [2016], and Gridlock (2008).

ABOUT CHAKAIA BOOKER
Chakaia Booker is famous for making sculptures from discarded tires.  She is instantly recognized with her signature headdress. Her art career began in the 1980s with making wearable art. Booker began working with rubber tires in the early 1990s and presently continues to work in this medium. The various tread patterns, colors, and widths of the tires possess create a palette for Booker similar to the palette of painter. The tire also represents her socio-economic concerns of working class, factory labor in the industrial environment – the emotional and physical scarring of people. The black tires symbolize the strength of African American identity.

Chakaia Booker was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1953. She received her BA in Sociology from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey), and her MFA from the City College of New York. Based in NYC, Booker maintains a studio in a former commercial laundry in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in 2005. Featured in the Whitney Biennial, her work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows around the world and is in the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem among many others.

 

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