Laylah Ali: Designer Nicole Parente

MoMA Graphic Novel

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For MoMA's Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali created her first comic book:

"Borrowing heavily from the traditional comic book in form, Ali's project departs completely from the genre in content. Stock characters, among them soldiers, ecumenical figures, prisoners and police; doctors and patients, slaves and masters, are separated into panels that normally permit an orderly progression of story. Her substantial themes: individual and group identity, politics and power, race and class, all served up as disarmingly naïve fare, the effect of which is to replace the viewer's initial amusement with shock as the scene is slowly digested."

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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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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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Design Nicole Parente
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Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente have collaborated on several projects, including a billboard. See some of Parente's work with other clients: "I love design. I welcome a challenge. I find comfort in feeling confident about my work. I try to continually broaden my outlook, so that my ideas stay fresh, and so that I can continue to create smart, innovative work."

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Adobe Illustrator
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To transform Laylah Ali's sketches and ideas into digital form, Nicole Parente uses the software application Adobe Illustrator.

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MoMA Graphic Novel
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For MoMA's Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali created her first comic book:

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Laylah Ali's Newspaper Research
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Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer's home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist's hand-drawn notes are transformed into precise digital illustrations otherwise impossible without a computer.

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. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions.

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera & Sound: Ken Willinger and Bob Freeman. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. Special Thanks: Nicole Parente.

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