International artist Chakaia Booker’s exhibit to explore sociocultural themes at Sarasota Art Museum

Chakaia Booker is internationally renowned for using reclaimed materials to create monumental sculptural works that challenge viewers to consider the nature of humans’ relationships to one another and the world.
Chakaia Booker is internationally renowned for using reclaimed materials to create monumental sculptural works that challenge viewers to consider the nature of humans’ relationships to one another and the world. Chakaia Booker (American, born 1953). Courtesy of the artist © Chakaia Booker; Photo: Stephen Allen.

International artist Chakaia Booker’s exhibit to explore sociocultural themes at Sarasota Art Museum

Chakaia Booker is internationally renowned for using reclaimed materials to create monumental sculptural works that challenge viewers to consider the nature of humans’ relationships to one another and the world.
Chakaia Booker is internationally renowned for using reclaimed materials to create monumental sculptural works that challenge viewers to consider the nature of humans’ relationships to one another and the world. Chakaia Booker (American, born 1953). Courtesy of the artist © Chakaia Booker; Photo: Stephen Allen.

An upcoming exhibit at Ringling College’s Sarasota Art Museum explores themes of environmentalism, socioeconomic justice, and more. The exhibit, Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure, will be on display from July 16-Oct. 29. The solo exhibition will feature select prints, paintings, and sculptures that highlight four themes: connection, accumulation, transformation, and juxtaposition. Recycled tires, her most iconic signature materials, communicate themes of diversity, consumerism, industrialization, and more. “Surface pressure” alludes to the process of making and the physical force the artist exerts to manipulate the materials.

Read the press release on the Sarasota Art Museum website.

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