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Michael Andrew Booker
Wave Patterns |

University of Texas
Art Galleries at Black Studies

Idea Lab
Gordon-White Building 2204
210 West 24th Street
Austin, TX 78712

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Wave Patterns features a new body of work by Maryland-based artist Michael A. Booker that explores affinities among three communication systems: the flags of the International Code of Signals (INTERCO), ocean waves, and Black hairstyles. The word wave in the exhibition’s title simultaneously refers to the undulating lines central to Booker’s drawing style, the shape that the strands of many Black people’s hair form, the …