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Steve Turner is pleased to present a two-person booth featuring works by Laylah Ali (born 1968, Buffalo, New York) and Jon Key (born 1990, Seale, Alabama).  While separated by a generation, both artists mine the same territory of race and gender to create psychologically loaded and open-ended narratives that reflect their respective experiences. Both utilize a visual language of austere simplicity and bright colors to create their distinctive works.

Laylah Ali’s most recent body of work, The Acephalous Series, consists of characters that resemble humans but differ in striking ways. Some lack …