How Artist Chakaia Booker Turns Car Tires Into Transcendence
Yearning for a new, more empathetic world? New York Times art critic Aruna D’Souza knows art can lead us there. Watch as Aruna D’Souza examines works in our collection that hold the promise of a better future. Chakaia Booker’s Egress transforms recycled tires, familiar symbols of urban waste, into extraordinary compositions of renewal. Booker’s artistic practice serves as a graceful and hopeful metaphor for Black American experiences of struggle, strength, and survival. View Chakaia Booker’s Egress in person at our East Building Mezzanine or through our online collection. Aruna D’Souza was the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in 2022.
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