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Allana Clarke

Info: Zander Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of ten new sculptural paintings and a large-format triptych by Trinidadian-American artist Allana Clarke. With a powerfully unique material aesthetic, the wall works on linen blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, questioning the hierarchies of classical art genres. Clarke borrows the unusual and central material for her works from the beauty industry, using black hair bonding glue as her raw material. The color black – and concepts of Black identity – have an aesthetic dimension as well as cultural and political dimensions for the artist. The abstract, chromatically black fields invite viewers to linger in the nuanced shades and discover meaning through duration to develop an understanding of the vast, ever-shifting potential of (B)blackness.