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Women in Sculpture Outdoor Exhibition 


Mid-South Sculpture Alliance
Outdoor – Women in Sculpture
Chattanooga, TN

September 2019-2021

Overview
Mid-South Sculpture Alliance and Public Art Chattanooga present Women in Sculpture, a temporary sculpture exhibition with three sites along the newest section of the Riverwalk along the Tennessee River and two sites in the urban corridor of Chattanooga, TN. This exhibition is a partnership with the Lyndhurst Foundation and supported by the City of Chattanooga.


Congratulations to the

Women in Sculpture featured artists!

Janet Austin
Aisling Millar
Erika Strecker
Kristen Tordella-Williams
Jaci Willis


Juror: 

Chakaia Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

For her, the varied tones of the rubber parallels human diversity, while the tire treads suggest images as varied as African scarification and textile designs. The visible wear and tear on the tires evokes the physical marks of human aging. Equally, Booker’s use of discarded tires references industrialization, consumer culture, and environmental concerns.

Booker’s artistic process is enormously physical, from transporting the tires to reshaping them with machinery. Though she has adopted utilitarian jeans and work boots in her studio, she always wears a large, intricately wrapped headdress, which has links to her earliest wearable art and has become her fashion signature.

Booker received a B.A. in sociology from Rutgers University in 1976, and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York in 1993. She gained international acclaim at the 2000 Whitney Biennial with It’s So Hard to Be Green (2000), her 12.5 x 21 foot wall-hung tire sculpture. Booker received the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally.


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