Drawing revolution

Currently on display at Galerie Les Modernes are works by Laylah Ali, an up-and-coming young thing hailing from Buffalo. Such stately magazines as Art in America have already sung her hosannas, so there's no need for me to open my art-critical mouth.

The exhibition centres around a series of 17 cartoon-like drawings entitled The Nat Turner Series. For those of us in need of explanations Nat Turner was a slave in 1830s Virginia who led one of the few realized slave revolts in American history. These small line drawings are meant as allegories for race relations in the United States.

The other works in the series are her B Drawings, drawings of brown bubble heads with leering eyes and protruding tongues, and her Presidents series, small cartoon portraits of the American presidents.

--Sholem Krishtalka
At 460 Ste- Catherine W., Suite 305, until April 30.

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