Chakaia Booker

Chakaia Booker: The Observance accompanies the first comprehensive museum survey of the American artist. The publication explores the artistÆs signature formùmonumental works made of rubberùwhile showcasing her innovations across mediums. Featuring an expansive range of BookerÆs sculptures, including totemic and anthropomorphic assemblages fabricated from cast-off tires, the volume highlights BookerÆs ongoing expression of ecological and technological concerns, examinations of racial and economic disparities, and her interest in the symbolism of the automobile in American culture.

The exhibition and accompanying publication Chakaia Booker: The Observance include some of BookerÆs most topical works, including Chu Ching (2012), which depicts a cross on a wheelbarrow resembling Jesus being dismounted from the cross, as well as two rarely seen series of paintings that explore landscape and language. The artistÆs photographic series, Foundling Warrior Quest (2010) and Graveyard Series (1995),