Chakaia Booker Books Sculpture Park

There is one thing besides a passion for art that Chakaia Booker and DeCordova's Sculpture Park have in common-they are both extraordinary. Art lovers in Lincoln, Massachusetts are in for a real treat. The 35-acre outdoor museum is now hosting the largest ever Chakaia Booker exhibit titled, In and Out.

Chakaia Booker is most widely known for her intricately woven, beautiful masterpieces made from recycled materials, most notably rubber car tires sculpted onto wooden or steel to create an abstract aesthetic. She is one of the most famous African-American contemporary sculptors to date, and her artwork almost reflects Afrocentrism, power, strength and complexity.

The meticulous detail that goes into her work is phenomenal. Pictures alone are amazing, but cannot possibly compare to seeing the sculptures on a large scale at a museum. Her sculptures are other worldly, where tires look like giant spikes, almost alien-like, while the same material can appear as smooth as leather. Some of her pieces are comparable to Chihuly's large glass blown sculptures, only with an entirely different medium.

According to the DeCordova web site, "In and Out refers simultaneously to the indoor/outdoor placement of the sculptures, the complex dialogues among surface/structure and mass/volume/void in each work, and also to the sexually suggestive images in some of Booker's work."

The exhibit is on display from now until August 29th, now all I need is a plane ticket to the other coast.

(photos courtesy of DeCordova.org)