Laylah Ali

Laylah Ali was born in 1968. She creates visual art out of social and political commentary. She has a facination for weakling superheroes, regimentation, alliance and betrayals, ambiguously tense enviroments, and, curiously, dodgeball. This led to her most famous series of more than sixty paintings called the Greenheads. In her paintings are figures dressed in meticulous detail. They are very expressive, brown limbed, and razor thin. They are all related by thier green heads, but segregated by color of uniform. Ali's Greenheads has sparked debate from dicussions of race, class, and political content. Although some people argue that they do not know the full meaning because she does not use any slogans, captions, or loaded titles. In her artwork I see alot of rhythm and repetition. All of the figures have the same bodies and same faces, but some have different expressions and clothing. The different clothing in her artwork to me gives one figure power over another figure as in the picture above.