Artist Statement

Laila Filmore is a Detroit artist. She has been drawing, painting and telling stories

since childhood when art became a coping mechanism and a way of grounding

and contextualizing her experiences. Her oil paintings pursue honesty and a

collaboration with her environment through a constant and imaginative

exploration of the psyche. She hopes that by exposing herself on canvas, she will

elicit from the viewer a moment of self-reflection and awareness – as personal as

her work can be, the response is universal.

As a black female artist, Laila wants to assert herself as a creator and narrator of

her own identity and experience.