“I’m thinking of black not as an end or a site of negation, but as a beginning and a site of destabilizing multiplicity.”
— Allana Clarke
View of the gallery space
Allana Clarke is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a will to heal, and an insistence upon freedom. Fluidly moving through photography, sculptural and text-based works, video and performance, her research-based practice incorporates socio-political and art historical texts, to contend with ideas of Blackness, the binding nature of bodily signification, and of the possibility to create non-totalizing identifying structures.
Born in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies in 1987.
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
Allana Clarke in the studio 2024. Photos by Daniel Ribar.
“I’m thinking of black not as an end or a site of negation, but as a beginning and a site of destabilizing multiplicity.”
— Allana Clarke
Selected Work
Allana Clarke
Allana Clarke
Detail of No one, 2023
30 Second hair bonding glue (rubber latex, black carbon dye)
77h x 70w x 4d in
Press

August 19th, 2024
Q&A with SECCA Curator Jared Ledesma about Allana Clarke’s exhibit, ‘Tender’
Triad City Beat

May 8, 2023
Artist Allana Clarke Addresses Hair Trauma Through Her Work With Weave Glue
Essence

May 8, 2023
Unburdened Beauty: Allana Clarke Creates Singular Sculptures in Pursuit of Black Futurity
New City Art