Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in January

by Anna Brady and Margaret Carrigan

Serge Attukwei Clottey
Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, 11 January-29 February

Serge Attukwei Clottey’s multimedia works riff on the textile traditions of his Ghanaian culture while incorporating Western materials and aesthetic influences to highlight the cultural and material exchange between Africa and the West. Many of his sculptures feature a particular kind of yellow plastic container that clogs the waterways of Ghana’s capital, Accra, as well as tyres, discarded wood and jute sacks. For his third exhibition, Clottey presents new large-scale, mixed-media wall works, charcoal drawings, and wood and bronze sculptures.