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Chakaia Booker

Chakaia Booker (Born 1953) is active/lives in New York, New Jersey.  Chakaia Booker is known for Sculpture-found object, recycled material.

Working from a studio in the heart of Manhattan's East Village, Chakaia Booker creates large-scale sculptures from found objects, especially tires from cars, trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles.  One of her pieces, It's So Hard to be Green, is a high-relief wall of shredded tires that appear to look like a junk yard.  The piece earned her much critical acclaim in the 2001 Whitney Biennial.

For her, tires are metaphors for the range of skin tones of African Americans.  The tread patterns suggest scars on African faces, and the toughness of the rubber suggests the strength of dark-skinned people.  She began art by making wearable art and dresses in elaborate coats, dresses, richly colored shawls, and head dresses and appears as richly layered as her sculptures.

Booker was born in Newark, New Jersey, and has an undergraduate degree in sociology from Rutgers University in 1976.  In 1993, she earned a Masters of fine arts degree fro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2856 characters.]  Artist bio

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