Taking Time: A solo exhibition by Chakaia Booker

Chakaia Booker’s work has spanned decades with an intentionality of practice and purpose. She chooses discarded tires to create beauty from detritus and elegance from industry, allowing the viewer to appreciate the abstract materialism or look deeper into the strong underpinnings of social, racial, feminist, and environmental justice. Her work at The Current, both inside and out, highlights beauty and hardship, and tradition and caretaking. The breadth of work includes a commissioned outdoor sculpture and inside The Current, her photographs, prints, and sculptures fill the galleries. The work asks the viewers to take time to listen, lean in, to contemplate, to heal, to work, to create, to be. 

Curated by Rachel Moore

Opening Festival, June 22