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Chakaia Booker: Weighted Balance
November 15, 2025 – June 1, 2026
Chakaia Booker: Weighted Balance presents works by American artist Chakaia Booker (born 1953), who for more than four decades has transformed discarded industrial materials into striking abstractions. Best known for her use of salvaged rubber tires, Booker slices, twists, and weaves this everyday material into sculptural forms that speak to resilience, regeneration, and change.
The sculptures and wall reliefs on view highlight Booker’s innovative approach to form, texture, and movement, merging influences from African textile traditions, modernist assemblage, and the physicality of labor. Her work reflects on cycles of industry, sustainability, and renewal, themes that resonate with Charlotte’s own manufacturing history.
In the museum’s lobby, Booker’s tapestry Pause (2023) extends her sculptural language into woven form, translating her signature energy and material experimentation into a new medium that underscores her ongoing dialogue between material, process, and transformation.
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