Laylah Ali: Television

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Art21 first featured artist Laylah Ali in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Laylah Ali is featured in the Art21 episode "Power" along with fellow artists Ida Applebroog, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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"Scooby Doo"
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What? You thought we wouldn't play you the theme song?

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How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made
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Watch a film from 1955 on how the earliest cartoons were made.

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1960-70s Children's Television
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Take a walk down memory lane and explore the television shows that were on the air when Laylah Ali was growing up in Buffalo, New York.

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Artist Todd Schorr
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Born a generation earlier than Laylah Ali, see what childhood cartoon influences informed artist Todd Schorr's work, a pioneer of Pop Surrealism.

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See the Finished Work
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Untitled, 2004 Gouache on paper, 15 7/16 x 15 2/16 inches Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York

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Channels: American ArtContemporary ArtPainting
Artists: Laylah Ali
Themes: Becoming / Being an ArtistChildhoodPerception

Exclusive Episode #067: In her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali describes how the television cartoons she watched as a child inform the way she works and thinks today.

Laylah Ali creates gouache-on-paper paintings that take her many months to complete. Ali meticulously plots out in advance every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color, achieving a high level of emotional tension in her paintings as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter.

Learn more about Laylah Ali: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-ali

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco & Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali

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00:00:25 When I look at a "Scooby Doo" cartoon or something now it seems really extremely poorly drawn, but that flatness and the way the color played on the screen,

00:00:34 certainly it must be in me somehow. You know, and it's not like an incredibly brilliant reference to say that "Scooby Doo" you know made my work what it is today!

00:00:45 But it would be dishonest to not admit to the role that a lot of bad television has in the development of the way I think my generation works,

00:00:56 or choices they made to refine what they were looking at.

00:01:02 I wouldn’t say that I was particularly visually oriented. I mean, I don’t know what I was oriented to as a kid. I was just a kid, you know?

00:01:10 And I recognize things from my childhood or things that I have witnessed or experienced and they're in there.

00:01:21 I don’t usually talk about those things cause I feel like that’s my...that’s what I get from it. It's personal. It goes in there. It stays in there. It informs the work,

00:01:32 and it deepens it, but it's my pact with the work.