B Booker Studio

 

Trained as a ceramic artist Robert "Bob" 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 often decorative in design, his work reflects a respect for the color field painters and the modern minimalist sculptors and architects. Work is created with a variety of media including tar, oil, ink, photo transfer, computer generated type, asphalt, tin, charcoal, gold leaf, commercial and handmade papers, and acrylic. 



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.

 

Booker often creates suites of work, related to each other in style, color and meaning. Recently his work has focused on images that are both self-referential and focused and related to issues such as abuse, HIV/AIDS, and gun control.