Artist: Chakaia Booker Title: Echoing Factors Audio: Date: 2004 Dimensions: 66″ x 96″ x 24″ Location in Library: First floor Media: Rubber tires, wood Owner: The Brooklyn College Library Collection. Purchased with Dormitory Authority of New York Art Acquisition Funds. © Chakaia Booker Description: In Echoing Factors, Booker’s use of pattern, texture, and subtle variations in color creates an expressive, abstract sculptural relief. A raw explosion of energy emanates from her clever orchestration of bent, looped, and layered tires creating poetic rhythms of swirling forms. Booker describes her approach to her work as being: “Like a painter having a palette, my palette is the textures of the treads, the fibers from discarded materials, and tires that I use to create varied effects.” Related Websites – Chakaia Booker’s Website – An Afternoon in the Park With Shahzia Sikander’s Golden Monuments –Move Over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan Has a New Female Lawgiver – Chakaia Booker at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Chakaia Booker at National Museum of Women in the Arts – The New York Times article Suggested Reading– Booker, Chakaia. Jersey Ride, 2004. Call Number: NB237 .B593 A4x 2004
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Artist: Marc Mellon (American, b. 1951) Title: Don Quixote Audio: Date: 2004 Dimensions: 24″ x 14″ x 8″ Location in Library: First floor Media: Bronze Owner: The Brooklyn College Library Collection. Gift of Marc Mellon. © Marc Mellon Description: Mellon is well known for his expressive portrait busts and commemorative statues of prominent figures, such as former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Theodore Roosevelt, Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill, and President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan. He is also recognized for capturing motion and balance in his sculptures of legendary figures from the worlds of dance and sports. The artist says, “My sculptures are meant to move and uplift the spirit.”