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| Chakaia Booker, Untitled, 2014, Hand painting, embossing, 20.75 x 19.25 inches. Image via davidkrut.com. |
A fluid
space projective space
September 4 – October 25, 2014
Opening reception: Thursday, September 25, 2014,
6-8pm
526 West
26th, Suite 816
New York,
NY
From davidkrut.com:
David Krut
Projects is pleased to present A fluid
space projective space, the second solo exhibition of Chakaia Booker’s
hand-cut and assembled chine collé prints at the gallery. The title of this
exhibition comes from Booker’s process of cutting and rearranging materials to
create a corpus-like cluster of pattern and texture. She describes this process
as fluid, and subject to the rhythm
and flow of discovering new shapes, colors, and compositions through the
offerings of the printmaking process.
The term projective space refers to how the
perspective of the human eye translates a three-dimensional reality through to
a two-dimensional lens or plane. In these works, Booker pushes the boundaries
of this unique relationship between the sculptural world and the projective
flatness of the image, linking her process of creating these works-on-paper to
that of her large-scale sculptural works she is best known for – assemblages
made of discarded rubber tires that are cut, looped, and layered into towering
beings.
Each
work-on-paper is unique and created in collaboration with Master Printer Phil
Sanders of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a collaboration that
began in 2009. Under Sanders’ guidance and printmaking expertise, Booker takes
full advantage of the tools in the printmaking workshop, marking woodblocks
with drills, chisels, and grinders before inking them to create elaborate
patterned papers from which she excavates her cut and rearranged pieces. The
resulting lyrical compositions of finely layered Japanese papers act as emblems
of her intuitive process - creating an optical duel between the two-dimensional
picture plane, and the physical fact of paper’s raw materiality.
A
full-color, 64 page catalogue on Booker's works on paper is available through
the gallery. The publication features an essay by Phil Sanders and quotes from
Chakaia Booker. Click here to order.
Chakaia
Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA
from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney
Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both
nationally and internationally, with select solo exhibitions including: Garment
District Alliance Broadway Public Art Commission, The National Museum of Women
in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art;
Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has
been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem
and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of
the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of
Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
