Zander Galerie

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.

Lee Friedlander

Info: Zander Galerie is pleased to present an exhibition of selected works from Lee Friedlander’s acclaimed series Letters from the People. Born in 1934, Friedlander is regarded as one of the most influential photo­graphers of our time and a keen chronicler of the American way of life. His distinctive visual language defies formal conventions, transforming the everyday cacophony of modern life into new aesthetic structures. Through numerous exhibitions – including the seminal New Documents show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967 alongside Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand – and through major international retrospectives, Friedlander’s work has profoundly shaped our understanding of subjective documentary photography.