EMANATING
CONNECTIONS
Artist: Chakaia Booker
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Dimensions: 6′ 2″ high, 2′ 8″ wide, 2′ 8″ deep
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Installation: 2009
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Location: Located on the Terre Haute Arts Corridor on the campus of Indiana State University near the New Theater, 540 North 7th Street.
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Chakaia Booker is best known for sculptures and wall reliefs that transform rubber from used tires into impressive and unique works of art. As a child she learned much from watching and participating while her grandmother and sister worked with textiles. Using smaller pieces to create a larger whole serves her well in working with rubber, an extremely difficult material to manipulate. This piece, like all of her works, is built on a stainless steel armature.
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The artist prefers that each viewer interpret the work in his or her own way. Chakaia has a personal relationship to the material that is careful and profound. Her use of a normally gritty and utilitarian material, transformed to become a highly textured and complex sculpture, invites us to examine our assumptions about pattern, texture, and function.
Broadening this examination beyond the realm of material and considering it in a symbolic light, one might also reflect on roles, values, assumptions, and patterns of resilience as they exist in the human sphere.
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The interest of the artist in this recycled material led to a partnership between Art Spaces and the Indiana State University Recycle Center to bring her work to Terre Haute.
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Additional Information:
Bias Tires and Stainless Steel
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Chakaia Booker lives in New York City and works in Allentown, PA.
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Art Spaces gratefully acknowledges Indiana State University Recycle Center.
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Emanating Connections is part of the Permanent Art Collection of ISU.
EMANTING CONNECTIONS
Artist: Chakaia Booker
​
Dimensions: 6′ 2″ high, 2′ 8″ wide, 2′ 8″ deep
​
Installation: 2009
​
Location: Located on the Terre Haute Arts Corridor on the campus of Indiana State University near the New Theater, 540 North 7th Street.
​
Chakaia Booker is best known for sculptures and wall reliefs that transform rubber from used tires into impressive and unique works of art. As a child she learned much from watching and participating while her grandmother and sister worked with textiles. Using smaller pieces to create a larger whole serves her well in working with rubber, an extremely difficult material to manipulate. This piece, like all of her works, is built on a stainless steel armature.
​
The artist prefers that each viewer interpret the work in his or her own way. Chakaia has a personal relationship to the material that is careful and profound. Her use of a normally gritty and utilitarian material, transformed to become a highly textured and complex sculpture, invites us to examine our assumptions about pattern, texture, and function.
Broadening this examination beyond the realm of material and considering it in a symbolic light, one might also reflect on roles, values, assumptions, and patterns of resilience as they exist in the human sphere.
​
The interest of the artist in this recycled material led to a partnership between Art Spaces and the Indiana State University Recycle Center to bring her work to Terre Haute.
​
Additional Information:
Bias Tires and Stainless Steel
​
Chakaia Booker lives in New York City and works in Allentown, PA.
​
Art Spaces gratefully acknowledges Indiana State University Recycle Center.
​
Emanating Connections is part of the Permanent Art Collection of ISU.