Booker's exhibition "Shaved Portions" concluded its run at the Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis.
The exhibition Chakaia Booker: Shaved Portions closed on December 4, 2010, concluding a roughly two-month presentation at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Throughout its run, the exhibition allowed visitors to engage closely with Booker's technique of manipulating tire rubber into richly varied surfaces, ranging from smooth curves to jagged, textural ridges.
As a university-affiliated exhibition, Shaved Portions played an important role in situating Booker's work within academic conversations about contemporary sculpture, sustainability, and the reclamation of industrial waste materials for artistic expression. The closing of the exhibition marked the end of a significant fall 2010 presentation that added to the growing body of institutional recognition Booker received throughout the decade.
This exhibition, though smaller in scale than her outdoor sculpture park presentations, was emblematic of Booker's versatility — her ability to create works that functioned powerfully both as monumental public art and as intimate gallery objects worthy of close, sustained study. Its closing in December 2010 set the stage for continued institutional attention in the years that followed, including her acclaimed 2013 solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.