Chakaia Booker

Artworks

Gridlock, 2008Rubber tires and stainless steel100 × 48 × 20 in. (254 × 121.9 × 50.8 cm)

TBD

Serendipity, 1998Rubber tire, Wood, Metal4 × 5 in. (10.2 × 12.7 cm)

Serendipity (1998) is an enclosure-like construction, twelve feet high, made of long wooden blocks that the artist has covered with stretched lengths of tire rubber and held together with long steel bolts. Booker has called Serendipity “a composition” instead of a construction because its transparent walls bell out at the viewer and its structural supports lean to one side. Serendipity draws on the forms of architecture, but has no practical use except as art.

Manipulating Fractions, 2004Rubber tires, stainless steel, and woodDimensions variable
Dialogue With Myself, 1994Rubber tires, wood47" × 74" × 100"

Tires are very versatile and are symbolically important to the expression of my ideas. Dialog With Myself is an expression of a woman forced to turn inward because of unmet cultural, social and sexual needs.

The Conversationalist, 1997Rubber tires, wood20' × 21' × 12'

Catalogue

View ‘Manipulating Fractions’ in the exhibition catalogue ‘Fact of the Matter‘ online HERE>>>  A print version is not available.

Exhibitions

Homecoming: Chakaia Booker
May 2026 - April 2027 Homecoming: Chakaia BookerChakaia Booker
Off-site: Fact of the Matter
Jan 28 – May 16, 2014 Off-site: Fact of the Matter
International 97
Sep 28, 1997 – May 1, 1998 International 97
International 94
Oct 9, 1994 – Apr 5, 1995 International 94