Bonnie Shanas Sculptor Exhibits at the American Fine Craft Show

Bonnie Shanas, a Cherry Hill-based sculptor, joins 89 other artisans and artists at the fifth American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum November 18-19, 2017.

She wrote on her website: “While most forms of sculpture are additive or reductive, I enjoy the challenge of breathing life into a sheet of steel wire mesh, where no material can be added or removed, and no crease erased. The lightness and transparency of the mesh offers simplicity to the gestures and a feeling of lightness to the movement, while the hardness of the metal promises that the moment captured continues well beyond its fragment of time.”

She added: “I am intrigued by the study of the human form. I am as much inspired by dance and movement as I am by the subtleties and simplicity of unspoken gestures. Together these compose a universal language which I attempt to instill and imbue in my work.”

Visitors to the show can take in the magnificent exhibitions at the Museum. Concurrent ones include “Rodin at the Brooklyn Museum: The Body in Bronze,” that opens November 17; “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt;” “Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo,” and “Arts of Korea.”

For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.

Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm

Tickets Include general admission to Brooklyn Museum