#layla ali

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Layla Ali

Layla Ali works in a 2D gouache style that is inspired by cartoons, TV, reading and newspapers. She is interested in examining the before and after of violence.

In viewing Layla Ali's art process, it's obvious that she is very fastidious and planned in everything she does. Obviously there are advantages to that: cleanliness, precision, sharp lines, but I feel as though she doesn't actually enjoy that part of the process. She mentions in interviews that she prefers the drawing stage, loose, free and uncontrolled.

Personally, her art feels as though it is more of a commentary than an art piece. Perhaps because of her perfectionism, she looses the loosens of art and her work ends up more similar to political cartooning.

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LAYLAH ALI: THE GREENHEADS SERIES

Guache and pencil on paper

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Go for your dreams, and don't let anything hold you back. Keep going no matter what it is you want to do in life.

Layla Ali

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Women in Afrofuturism: Laylah Ali, Janelle Monae, Wanuri Kahui, Ingrid LaFleur

Still from 'Pumzi' (Wanuri Kahui)

'..In a world that places centrality on the male figure, Afrofuturist movements have been dramatically promoted by women in many forms of media, with perhaps the most popular icon today being Janelle Monae, lighting up our screens with her futuristic themes that are largely focused on androids and quite recently, ‘electric ladies’. The expression of mainstream artists within this fantastical realm, however, is not completely new. Older artists such as Grace Jones, Erykah Badoe, Labelle have over the years created personas that have escaped the trappings of popularized constructions of black identity, be it through their androgynous looks or mystic creations...'

http://aadatart.com/women-in-afrofuturism-laylah-ali-janelle-monae-wanuri-kahui/

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Layla Ali

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Layla Ali, Untitled (2005)