Janisar Ali

An artist whose vibrant colors almost leap from the canvas, Janisar’s current series, entitled With Friends, explores themes of female companionship. We have the feeling of being in the inner sanctum of women, where the world is theirs alone, a world only they understand and in which they don’t need to use words to communicate. Sometimes we can’t help but feel that his women are weighed down with the burdens of an inner struggle or sorrow to which we are not quite privy, and at other times we glimpse a half smile and dreamy eyes, leaving us wondering what secret dreams she’s dreaming.