Laboratory Series IV: Allana Clarke
October 29, 5-6:30pm PST
Watch the recording here.
Join us for our third event in our Laboratory Series, a conversation series with Black-identified
artists in collaboration with R.A.C.E. Matters San Luis Obispo. Join us in conversation
with Allana Clarke. 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 video, performance, photography, and text, 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. Clarke received her
BFA in photography from New Jersey City University in 2011 and an MFA in Interdisciplinary
Practice from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art in 2014. Clarke has been an artist
in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Vermont Studio Center,
Lighthouse Works, and Yaddo. She has received several grants including the Toby Devan
Lewis Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Fund, and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has
been screened and performed at Gibney Dance in NY, Invisible Export NY, New School
Glassbox Studio NY, FRAC in Nantes, France, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin and was featured
in the Bauhaus Centennial edition Bauhaus Now: Is Modernity an Attitude. She is currently
a 2020 NXTHVN fellow and an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.
