{"id":26814,"date":"2012-12-06T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26814"},"modified":"2012-12-06T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:40:46","slug":"laylah-ali%e2%80%99s-show-both-confounds-and-mesmerizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26814","title":{"rendered":"Laylah Ali\u2019s show both confounds and mesmerizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/2012\/02\/19\/review-sebastian-smee-looks-laylah-ali-drawings-hopkins-center-for-arts-dartmouth-college\/zgcr7T5icPpaShJsG7n91H\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laylah Ali\u2019s show both confounds and mesmerizes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Globe<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/staff\/smee\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sebastian Smee<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 Art Critic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/laylah-ali\" target=\"_blank\">Laylah Ali<\/a> is an artist to reckon with. Any opportunity to see her work should not be missed, and for the next two weeks, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, a small college gallery a short walk from the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, is offering just such an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1968, Ali grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffalo,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo<\/a> and lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Williamstown,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Williamstown<\/a>. She has been an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College this winter. But the current show of drawings in pencil and black ink is the fruit of an earlier period. All were made between 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>They show Ali\u2019s inimitable cast of two-dimensional characters, many of them missing arms and other anatomical parts, some of them solo, others in groups of two or three. They are of indeterminate sex and indeterminate race. But all have extra features &#8211; strange encumbrances that resemble humps, hoods, headdresses, horns, turbans, goggles, burkas, and beards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/2012\/02\/19\/review-sebastian-smee-looks-laylah-ali-drawings-hopkins-center-for-arts-dartmouth-college\/zgcr7T5icPpaShJsG7n91H\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laylah Ali\u2019s show both confounds and mesmerizes The Boston Globe 2012-02-19 Sebastian Smee,\u00a0 Art Critic Laylah Ali is an artist to reckon with. Any opportunity to see her work should not be missed, and for the next two weeks, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, a small college gallery a short walk from the Hood Museum of Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[4072,4074,13025,5579],"class_list":["post-26814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-boston-globe","tag-laylah-ali","tag-sebastian-smee","tag-the-boston-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}