Laylah Ali
| Ein sex anaa gender | female  |
|---|---|
| Country wey e be citizen | United States |
| Family name | Ali |
| Ein date of birth | 9 May 1968 |
| Place dem born am | Buffalo |
| Ein occupation | painter, visual artist, illustrator |
| Field for work | art of painting |
| Educate for | Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College, Nichols School, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| Residence | Williamstown, Buffalo |
| Work period (start) | 1995 |
| Work period (end) | 2016 |
| Ethnic group | African Americans |
| Award e receive | William H. Johnson Prize |
| Dema official website | http://paulkasmingallery.com/artist/laylah-ali |
| Copyright status as creator | works protected by copyrights |
| Artist files at | Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library |
Laylah Ali (dem born am for1968)[1] be an American contemporary visual artist. She be known for paintings insyd wich ambiguous race relations dey depict plus a graphic clarity ein cartoon strip format.[2] She lives insyd Williamstown, Massachusetts,[1] den be a professor at Williams College.[3]
Early life den education
[edit | edit source]Insyd ein youth, Ali originally dey intend to be a lawyer anaa a doctor.[4]
Ali receive her B.A. degree (English ein studio art) from Williams College, Williamstown, MA insyd 1991.[5] She dey participate insyd de Whitney Independent Study Program at de Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City insyd 1992, ein complete a residency at de Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME insyd 1993. Ali dey receive ein M.F.A. degree insyd 1994 from de Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Work
[edit | edit source]Insyd Ali's earlier work, she would draw anaa paint somthing violent. She focuse more for de action dan de violence itself. Insyd her current work, there be not a lot of focus on de act; she be more attentive to wat happens before ein after.[6] Laylah's work dey get a unique feature of including a level of emotion. She uses bright colors den cartoons to portray current events ein socio-political ideas. She uses dis unique approach of not using a specific event, so de audience fi think through de art ein have their own perception.[7]
De works are small scale gouache paintings den drawings for paper. She be known to prepare for many months, planning out every detail so there be no room for mistakes. Ali's work be based on life experiences. Although one may not be able to tell, she says all of ein work holds meaning den dat wat's insyd her mind transcends from her hands on paper.[8] About de performative nature of her work, Ali says, "De paintings fi be like crude stages anaa sets, de figures like characters insyd a play. I think of dem equally as characters den figures."[9]
Ali's work include an artistic lens of caricature. According to Charlotte Seaman, "Ali’s work be not ground insyd de academic tradition, however, it be inform by de rich history of caricature, especially as humorous anaa mocking social commentary". Ali use a unique idea of caricature, Seaman states "Ali uses de visual language of cartoons, comics, ein to some extent caricatures. Notably, though, ein work be oppose to racial caricature insyd dat it does not exaggerate features of an individual – rather de opposite: it turns individuals into signs anaa ciphers of generalized (though still dey racialize) human experience"[10]
The Greenheads Series
[edit | edit source]De subject of Ali's most well-known gouache paintings are Greenheads– characters design to minimize, eliminate den interrogate categorical differences of gender, height, age, den insyd sam ways race.[11][12] Ali dey create more dan 80 of these paintings between 1996 ein 2005. Ali draw on imagery ein topics from newspapers, such as images of protest signs anaa world leaders hugging, but dey tweak de stories in order to create samthing distant den new. Ali design de characters ein images to be specific ein yet vague. Dm get meaning from Ali herself but de viewer brings dem own references to interpret de image as well. Ali design de characters to look human-like but not quite human so dat they would be remove from our world ein social context. They have a socio-political meaning yet they exist outside of our world.[13]
De Acephalous Series
[edit | edit source]Since 2015, Ali has been working for paintings she calls The Acephalous Series, featuring figures describe as gender conscious, potentially sexual anaa sexualized, sam of wich have racial characteristics ein sam of wich do not have heads. "They are on an endless, determined trek, a multi-part journey," she says, "It has elements of a forced migration."[9]
Collaborations
[edit | edit source]Insyd 2002, de Museum of Modern Art, New York, dey commission Ali to create a wordless graphic novelette.[14] De artist dey collaborate plus dancer den choreographer Dean Moss at The Kitchen insyd 2005 ein at MASS MoCA insyd 2006 plus figures on a field.[15] Dem later dey premier a performance at Some sweet day at MoMA, New York insyd 2012. John Brown Song! be an online project launch by de Dia Art Foundation insyd 2013.[16] Ali's outdoor billboard project for Walker without Walls at the Walker Art Center be document on season 3 of de PBS series Art21: Art insyd de Twenty-First Century.[17]
Collections
[edit | edit source]Ali's works dey include insyd de permanent collection of numerous public institutions, including de Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; de Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; de Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; ein de Whitney Museum insyd New York City.[18]
Exhibitions
[edit | edit source]Selected solo ein group exhibitions
[edit | edit source]Laylah Ali dey exhibit insyd both de Venice Biennale (2003) ein de Whitney Biennial (2004).[8] Oda exhibitions dey as follows:
- 2024: Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali, Marion Art Gallery, State University of New York at Fredonia, NY. January 23—April 14, 2024—traveling to University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. February 13—May 9, 2025; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. October 21—April 19, 2026 (solo & catalog)
- 2021: Sweaty Concepts, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- 2020: Never Done: 100 Years Of Women In Politics And Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 2019: Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series, Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. January 29—March 16, 2019 (solo & catalog)
- 2018: Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Body / Parts, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
- 2017: Laylah Ali: Paintings and Drawings, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. November 10—December 22, 2017 (solo & catalog)
- 2017: Laylah Ali: Not Self Portraits, wey dey curate by Lisa Jarrett ein Harrell Fletcher, KSMoCA, Portland, OR. May—November, 2017[19]
- 2016: Black Pulp! wey dey curate by Mark Thomas Gibson and William Villalongo, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. January 19—March 11, 2016—travel to Print Center New York, NY. October 12—December 19, 2016; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. June 2—July 20, 2017; Ezra ein Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. September 19—December 10, 2017; De African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA. February 2—April 29, 2018;[20] Overgrowth, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2015: The Acephalous Series, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
- 2015: ASSISTED, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ—traveled to Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA. June 12—September 20, 2015; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. October 17, 2015—January 31, 2016; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX. February 17—May 15, 2016
- 2014: Personal Histories, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Up Every Evening, Season Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2013: The Shadows Took Shape, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); Ambiguous Histories: Selected Art from the Exit Art Portfolios, Art, Design, ein Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Laylah Ali & Gerald Cyrus, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery, Lancaster, PA; Direct Democracy, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); Painting Between the Lines, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalog); Revelations: Examining Democracy, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- 2012: Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA—traveled to Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. March 2—June 30, 2013; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. September 7—December 22, 2013 (solo & catalog)
- 2012: Thenceforward, and Forever Free, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Under the Influence: The Comics, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalog); Voluntaries, MoMA, New York, NY, part of the “Some sweet day” series (collaborative performance plus Dean Moss)
- 2011: The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog); Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog); Relatos extraordinarios: Laylah Ali and Abigail Lazkoz, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain (catalog); Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York, NY
- 2010: Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, De Studio Museum insyd Harlem, New York, NY
- 2009: Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. Art Works for Change, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway—traveled to University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA (2009–2010); Centro Cultural Tijuana ein Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2011); Global Health Odyssey Museum, Atlanta, GA (2011); Prospect.2 New Orleans and Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2011); De Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2013); Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2013); Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada (2014); Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions from the Walker Art Center, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Massachusetts Review: Celebrating Fifty Years of Covers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA; If I Didn't Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories, The Park School, Baltimore, MD
- 2008: Laylah Ali: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (solo & catalog)[21]
- 2008: Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH; Fantastical Imaginings, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE—traveled to Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD (2009); Political Circus, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; On the Margins, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (catalog); Disguised, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; Out of Shape, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalog); Taking Possession, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR; Perverted by Theater, Apexart, New York, NY; Pandora's Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (catalog); Quadrennial 2008, U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalog); Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- 2007: the kiss and other warriors, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England (solo & catalog)
- 2007: Drawings from the Typology Series, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA—traveled to University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (solo & catalog)
- 2006: Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England—traveled to Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England (catalog); Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, London, England (catalog); Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (catalog); Running Around the Pool, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalog); XXS, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; American Matrix, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (catalog); Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
- 2005: The Body. The Ruin, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (catalog); Cut, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Vivi-Seccion: Dibujo Contemporaneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; 303 Gallery, New York, NY
- 2004: Laylah Ali: Types, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (solo & catalog)
- 2004: Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog); Material Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (catalog); The 10 Commandments, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
- 2003: Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA—traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalog); Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalog); me & more, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalog); Splat! Boom! Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX—traveled to ICA, Boston, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (catalog)
- 2002: Projects 75: Laylah Ali, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo & catalog)
- 2002: Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA—traveled to Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalog); Fantasyland, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY; First Person Singular, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Painting in Boston, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
- 2001: Laylah Ali: 2000 ICA Artist Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo & catalog)
- 2001: Paintings on Paper, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (solo)[22]
- 2001: Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface, Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalog); FRESH: 1998—2000, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Guarene Arte 2001, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; A Work in Progress: Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
- 2000: Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
- 1999: Laylah Ali: Small Aggressions, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (solo)
- 1999: Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL; Collectors Collect Contemporary, ICA, Boston, MA; The 1999 deCordova Annual Exhibition, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalog); No Place Rather than Here, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
- 1998: Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York, NY; Posing, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; Selections Summer 1998, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Telling Tales, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Awards
[edit | edit source]Dem award Laylah Ali a number of grants, residencies ein awards, including de Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters den Sculptors Grant insyd 2008,[23] de Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency insyd 2018,[24] de United States Artists Fellowship,[25] as well as being honor as an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, Yaddo, Headlands Center for the Arts, ein Skowhegan School of Painting den Sculpture.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baker, Alex (2007) Laylah Ali: Typology. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. 47. ISBN 9780943836300
- ↑ Cotter, Holland (2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Laylah Ali". The New York Times. No. June 30. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series". museum.cornell.edu. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Laylah Ali on Greenheads, Violence in Art, and More". BU Today. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Paul Kasmin Gallery - Laylah Ali". paulkasmingallery.com (in English). Archived from the original on 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ↑ Sollins, Susan (2005). Art 21: art in the 21st century 3. Purchase College. pp. 28. ISBN 081095916X.
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Laylah Ali". Art21.org (in English). Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Juxtapoz Magazine - Laylah Ali: Bodies in Notion". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ cseaman. "Laylah Ali: Drawing Power, Play, and Violence | Drawing Connections" (in American English). Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ↑ Ali, Laylah. "Interview." Laylah Ali. By Rebecca Walker. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2001.
- ↑ Template:Cite AV media
- ↑ Ali, Laylah; Rothschild, Deborah; Museum of Art. (2012). Laylah Ali, the Greenheads series: [accompanies the exhibition "Laylah Ali: the Greenheads series" presented at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 18 - November 25, 2012; Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 2 - June 30, 2013; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 7 - December 22, 2013 (in English). S.l.: s.n. ISBN 9780913697306. OCLC 843494121.
- ↑ "The Believer - Interview with Laylah Ali". The Believer (in English). 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ↑ Cornuelle, Kimberly (4 November 2010). "Laylah Ali on Greenheads, Violence in Art, and More". Boston University. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "What Could the Internet Be? Dia's Online Projects". Rhizome (in English). 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ↑ "Laylah Ali in". Art21 (in English). Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ↑ "Paul Kasmin Gallery - Laylah Ali". paulkasmingallery.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Laylah Ali: Not Self Portraits". KSMoCA — King School Museum of Contemporary Art (in American English). Retrieved 2024-08-16.
- ↑ "Black Pulp!". Print Center New York (in American English). 2016-12-19. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ↑ Ali, Laylah; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (2008-01-01). Laylah Ali: note drawings (in English). [Lincoln, MA?]: Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park. ISBN 9780945506591. OCLC 286493089.
- ↑ "Laylah Ali Paintings on Paper | MASS MoCA" (in American English). 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
- ↑ Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Joan Mitchell Foundation » Artist Programs » Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org (in English). Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ↑ "Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Artists for Its 2018 Residency Program". www.artforum.com. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- ↑ "United States Artists Taps Baltimore-based Deana Haggag as President and CEO | Culture Type". www.culturetype.com (in American English). 31 January 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-13.