Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke

  • Solo Exhibitions
    • A Particular Fantasy Art Omi
    • An Infinitive Breath
    • A Particular Fantasy Bennington College
    • I Feel Everything
    • Art Basel Pioneers Solo Presentation
    • Relative Semblance
  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2024
    • 2022
    • 2021
  • Paintings
  • Photography
  • Time Based Media
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Social Abstraction

Curated by Antwaun Sargent

Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills


The intergenerational assembly of Black artists in Social Abstraction explores the intersections of nonrepresentational form and social consciousness. Moving between and beyond the poles of abstraction and figuration, they form shapes to become landscape and cityscape, color to reveal people and explore the limits of perception, and texture to map the totality of lived experience. Whereas some artists in Social Abstraction paint in oils and acrylics, others use ceramics, hair glue, mosaics, resins, textiles, wigs, and other materials charged with conceptual and cultural significance.