Allana Clarke

Came across this artists' website while looking for other figurative artists working with time-based media http://allanaclarke.com . Her artists statement below explains her practice, and why I find her influential, even though the work she produces is substantially different from my own, her conceptual basis, from which she develops her works has echoes of the ideas influencing my own practice.

My work investigates power as both an authoritative structure and an abstraction. Primarily using sculpture, video, installation and performance I shift, collapse and subvert “power” from my hybridized perspective, having been born in Trinidad but living and absorbing American cultural histories. From this viewpoint I want to understand how the discourse of power is implemented in relation to gender, class and race.