Gallery 210: Thursday, 4 October 2007

Gallery 210: Thursday, 4 October 2007

"Chakaia Booker: Sculpture" will include nine works by Booker, each made using her trademark material, rubber tires. She cuts the tires into strips and then wraps and folds them over wooden or steel armatures, shaping rubber pieces into provocative forms that can be whimsical, aggressive and often sexually suggestive.

Booker emphasizes the textural qualities of the materials with which she works. She says the tire treads remind her of textile designs and of ritual scarification of her ancestors from Africa.

A public reception for the artist will begin at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in Gallery 210's Exhibition Room A. Booker will give a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. On view October 4 through December 8.

Gallery 210 (Telecommunity Center)
University of Missouri-St. Louis
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121
(314) 516-5976
http://www.umsl.edu/~gallery