Documented artwork / monumental tire-and-steel sculpture
Foci
Credit as documented: Chakaia Booker
Foci is Chakaia Booker’s towering composition of reused tire rubber supported by a stainless-steel armature. Grounds For Sculpture explains that overlapping tire pieces wrap the structural skeleton, applying Booker’s cutting, folding and assembling methods at monumental scale. Storm King commissioned the work in 2010 for its fiftieth anniversary. The later Grounds For Sculpture record identifies a loan on the Great Lawn, with courtesy to the artist; it supplies no loan commencement date.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2010
- Materials
- reused rubber tires, stainless steel
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 30 × 8 × 8 ft (Grounds For Sculpture); 32 × 8 × 8 ft (AUC library exhibition)
- Dimensions apply to
- Published object measurements disagree on height; no independently measured envelope or evidence of separate editions.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2010 anniversary commission; exact presentation dates not independently re-established
Storm King Art Center
Date not documented
Grounds For Sculpture, Great Lawn, Hamilton, New Jersey
Materials and construction
Grounds For Sculpture’s medium line lists only stainless steel, while its own explanatory text identifies the rubber covering. Its published height is thirty feet. The Atlanta University Center library exhibition instead lists thirty-two feet, with the same eight-foot width and depth. The discrepancy is retained as a published measurement difference rather than silently assigning separate editions.
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Sources
- glamportal.auctr.edu ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17
- www.groundsforsculpture.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17