Allen (b. 1993, Green Cove Springs, Florida) is a New York–based artist whose work merges painting, sculpture, and installation to examine engineered quiet, land use, and subtle architectures of control in the American landscape. He maintains a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Midtown Manhattan and works as a gallery manager in Tribeca.
Allen holds an MFA from Pratt Institute (2019) and a BFA in Fine Art and Art History from the University of North Florida (2017). He studied under master printer John Hutcheson of Tyler Graphics and has participated in study abroad programs in Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia.
Statement.
My work explores how memory, control, and ecological erasure shape the American landscape. Through installation, sound, and reductive painting, I examine how silence functions not as an absence but as a constructed condition, especially within suburban, engineered, or ecologically manipulated environments.
My current solo project, Unnatural Silence, asks: if one sound defines the modern American landscape, is it the drone of a lawnmower? That hum conjures manicured lawns, cleared pastures, and enforced property lines, a sonic backdrop to systems of order, erasure, and myth-making.
I was raised on the rural edge of Northeast Florida’s suburban fringe, in a landscape marked by abandonment, reinvention, and uneasy beauty. Unnatural Silence draws from that terrain: granular paintings, natural materials, and a low-frequency vibration transmitted through found objects and architectural components. The hum echoes both mechanical maintenance and the quieting of natural sound, creating an environment where controlled stillness reveals the underlying structures shaping the contemporary American landscape.
