MY STORY

 



Trained as a ceramic artist Booker is fascinated by both the intended mark and the accidental mark, his work remains true to his experience as a potter incorporating chance into his work.  Minimal in content yet decorative in design, his work reflects a respect of the color field painters and the modern minimalist sculptors and architects. More recently, the colors and patterns of the Southwest and popular culture have influenced his body of work.



Booker's work is clearly influenced by the paintings and sculpture of Martin Puryear, Andy Warhol, Donald Sultan, Mark Rothko and Richard Serra. 



Work is created with a variety of media including tar, oil, ink, asphalt, tin, charcoal,  gold leaf, colored and handmade papers, and acrylic.



 

Booker often creates suites of work, related to each other in style, color and meaning.  Through the use of  handmade and colored papers, his  work contains a luminosity and depth not found in his earlier minimalistic paintings which involved oil soaked canvas, rich pigment, and asphalt. Most recently he has completed a 4 part suite of work relating to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its effect on his and others lives.