RubberMade
Subtitle: sculpture by Chakaia Booker
By: Christopher Cook ; interview with the artist by Valerie Cassel Oliver
Contributors: Booker, Chakaia, 1953-; Cassel Oliver, Valerie; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Publisher: Kemper Museum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kansas City, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781891246166
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews
Other titles: Rubber made; Sculpture by Chakaia Booker
Description: Since the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with rubber tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting, slicing, and weaving found rubber tires (primarily from bikes, cars, and farm equipment), she forms dynamic, whimsical sculptures that fuse ecological concerns with questions about racial and economic differences, globalization, and sociopolitical power structures. Featuring twenty-four sculptures, this exhibition surveys the past eight years of production by one of today’s most prominent American artists.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 6-Aug. 17, 2008.