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PAUL KASMIN GALLERY - ARTIST: Laylah Ali

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Laylah Ali: The Acephalous Series
Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue, New York
March 25 – April 25, 2015
Opening reception: March 25, 6 – 8pm


Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of 
The Acephalous Series, a solo exhibition of new paintings by 
Laylah Ali. This is the artist’s first show with the gallery and 
her first solo exhibition of paintings in New York since 2005.

Widely known for her iconic series, the Greenheads, which 
was the subject of a traveling museum exhibition from 2012 
– 2013, Ali explores power dynamics and interpersonal 
conflict through compositions that position culturally and 
sexually ambiguous figures in precarious, loaded, and 
unexpectedly humorous situations.  While the works 
included in The Acephalous Series are similarly engaging 
and metaphoric, Ali has introduced new narratives with a 
fraught community of figures, including those with minimal 
bodies, some who lack heads, or appear to be on an endless, 
determined trek.

The exhibition will be comprised of ten gouache and acrylic 
paintings on paper.  While maintaining her characteristic 
intensive process, the works in The Acephalous Series are 
Ali’s largest in scale to date.

Laylah Ali was included in the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 
2004 Whitney Biennial, and she has had solo exhibitions at 
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Institute of 
Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; and the Museum of Modern 
Art, New York, NY. Her work is included in the permanent 
collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; 
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The 
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and the Walker 
Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, amongst many others.

 

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