{"id":29319,"date":"2013-03-04T22:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29319"},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:43:54","slug":"laylah-ali-the-greenheads-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29319","title":{"rendered":"Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weisman.umn.edu\/event\/laylah-ali-the-greenheads-series\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series <\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weisman.umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Weisman Art Museum<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<br \/>\n333 East River Road<br \/>\nMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455<br \/>\n(612) 625-9494<br \/>\n2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/art.williams.edu\/profile\/lali\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laylah Ali<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Art<br \/>\n<em>Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us for a <a href=\"http:\/\/wam.umn.edu\/event\/artist-talk-laylah-ali\" target=\"_blank\">talk with Laylah Ali<\/a> on March 7, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WAM is pleased to present <em>Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series<\/em>. This is the first time the Greenheads series, created between 1996 and 2005, is being shown as a comprehensive body of work. Forty-three of the exquisitely rendered gouache paintings\u2014from a total of more than eighty\u2014have been gathered from collections here and abroad to chronicle the series\u2019 development.<\/p>\n<p>The figures inhabiting Ali\u2019s works\u2014the Greenheads\u2014are enigmatic, round-headed beings of indeterminate sex and race who inhabit a regimented, dystopian world where odd and menacing, though sometimes strangely humorous, encounters prevail.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition will allow viewers to examine the evolution of Ali\u2019s series. While the early paintings frequently focus on physically aggressive exchanges between groups of figures, these interactions are later replaced by individuals\u2014alone or in small groups\u2014who witness the prelude to, or aftermath of, a charged encounter. As the series continues, more and more of the figures\u2019 anatomy is pruned away, as if the artist is examining how much can be taken out\u2014such as arms, feet, skin color\u2014while still communicating thought, emotion, and social status.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition was organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Art&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weisman.umn.edu\/event\/laylah-ali-the-greenheads-series\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota 333 East River Road Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-9494 2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12 Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Join us for a talk with Laylah Ali on March 7, 2013. WAM is pleased to present Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13,8,20,25],"tags":[4074,13838],"class_list":["post-29319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-laylah-ali","tag-weisman-art-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319","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=29319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}