Carl Little: Laylah Ali's Activations

Carl Little, Maine Arts Journal, December 27, 2025

In a statement on the Joan Mitchell Foundation website, Laylah Ali offers this note on her art: “My work deals with the amalgam of race, power, gendering, ambition, human frailty, murky politics, and the other complex combinations that we so often treat as separate entities.” Is Anything the Matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali at the Colby College Museum of Art bears out this self-appraisal by way of a provocative and compelling array of images.