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Alma Allen works primarily with noble materials — bronze, marble, or hardwoods such as walnut, oak, and Mexican desert wood — which he sculpts by hand and saw, then polishes to varying degrees across different areas. What characterises his work: the forms are biomorphic, simultaneously evoking a root and an eroded stone — never clearly figurative, never purely abstract. The surface plays on the contrast between ultra-polished zones (almost mirror-like) and rough areas revealing tool marks or the natural grain of the wood. The hollow is central to his plastic vocabulary — a concavity that draws the eye, creates shadow, and generates tension between fullness and void. Scale is often surprising: pieces that appear intimate in photographs reveal themselves as massive in reality, or vice versa. The artist lives and works in Baja California, Mexico, where the arid landscape directly nourishes his formal imagination. He represents the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026.