El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery

El Anatsui, installation view at Jack Shainman Gallery, Jan 2013.
El Anatsui, installation view at Jack Shainman Gallery, Jan 2013.

In advance of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui’s show of monumental works at the Brooklyn Museum opening early next month, Chelsea’s Jack Shainman Gallery is currently showing elegant new, quasi-textile artworks created from the artist’s signature material – metal sourced from recycled liquor bottles. (through Jan 19th).

El Anatsui, detail of Bukpa Layout, found aluminum and copper wire, 2012.
El Anatsui, detail of Bukpa Layout, found aluminum and copper wire, 2012.