Alma Allen (artist)

Alma Allen (born June 17, 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American sculptor.

Carved from foraged wood and stone or cast in bronze, Allen's sculptures range in scale from thimble-sized fetishes to several ton pseudo-figures.

He rarely exhibited, preferring to sell independently from his Mojave Desert studio,[2] which the artist designed and built himself.

[3] The remote location of his studio, one hundred miles from Los Angeles on the edge of the Joshua Tree National Park, led to a reputation as a recluse.

[8] Allen "interrogates his own place in the vacuum of art history in the only way he knows: by manipulating the nature of materials, a knotty, manifest language of the world", wrote critic Christina Catherine Martinez.