{"id":1426,"date":"2020-02-13T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2021-06-02T05:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T09:13:44","slug":"ya-laford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/ya-laford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ya La\u2019ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ya Levy-La\u2019ford<\/a> is an artist, educator and\u00a0foremost\u00a0a\u00a0transporter\u00a0working between the visual and our community\u00a0\u00a0through a wide range of mediums including paint, sculpture, installation,\u00a0video\u00a0and sound. La’ford is known for her \u00a0site-specific installations of her bold, geometric paintings\u00a0to \u00a0explore\u00a0themes of transformation and\u00a0transcendence. She builds each work with a unique vocabulary of intersecting lines and gestural repetition that create distinctive visual impact. Her labyrinth patterns are both an exploration of self and place, as well as a reflection of her Jamaican background. Complex yet minimal, La\u2019ford\u2019s work emphasizes contrasts between light and dark, \u00a0positive and negative space and draw connections between\u00a0interconnectivity\u00a0 and human neutrality.<\/p>\n

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The Monument, Metal Sculpture, 10 foot\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tied, Environmental\u00a0Facade Tampa, Metal Facade, 24 x 75 feet\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ya Levy-La\u2019ford is an artist, educator and\u00a0foremost\u00a0a\u00a0transporter\u00a0working between the visual and our community\u00a0\u00a0through a wide range of mediums including paint, sculpture, installation,\u00a0video\u00a0and sound. La’ford is known for her \u00a0site-specific installations of her bold, geometric paintings\u00a0to \u00a0explore\u00a0themes of transformation and\u00a0transcendence. She builds each work with a unique vocabulary of intersecting lines and gestural repetition that create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}