9783777442686
Examines formal and thematic relationships across bodies of work by artist Samia Halaby.
Samia Halaby is widely recognized as a pioneer in twentieth-century abstraction and computer-generated art and as a leading scholar of Palestinian art. In the last twenty years, Halaby has expanded her practice to larger, more ambitious paintings and canvas-based assemblages. As an early practitioner of digital art, she taught herself programming languages and generated “kinetic paintings” of colorful shapes, sounds, and textures on a late 1980s Amiga computer. Throughout the 1990s, she developed a custom PC program that can generate moving shapes with live keyboard commands. These kinetic paintings and performances, which Halaby has archived as digital video files, have been little studied and not yet exhibited. Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy will bring together approximately thirty-five of Halaby’s paintings, prints, and drawings in the first-ever American survey of her work, and features Halaby’s writing about her artistic practice.
Samia Halaby is widely recognized as a pioneer in twentieth-century abstraction and computer-generated art and as a leading scholar of Palestinian art. In the last twenty years, Halaby has expanded her practice to larger, more ambitious paintings and canvas-based assemblages. As an early practitioner of digital art, she taught herself programming languages and generated “kinetic paintings” of colorful shapes, sounds, and textures on a late 1980s Amiga computer. Throughout the 1990s, she developed a custom PC program that can generate moving shapes with live keyboard commands. These kinetic paintings and performances, which Halaby has archived as digital video files, have been little studied and not yet exhibited. Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy will bring together approximately thirty-five of Halaby’s paintings, prints, and drawings in the first-ever American survey of her work, and features Halaby’s writing about her artistic practice.
208 pages | 100 color plates | 10.98 x 9.02 | © 2024
Art: Art--General Studies, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Art
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Table of Contents
David A. Brenneman, Steven L. Bridges: Director’s Foreword
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert & Rachel Winter: Curators’ Preface and Acknowledgements: To Return, Again
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert: Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
Rachel Winter: On Place: A Conversation with Samia Halaby
Plates
Samia Halaby: My History with Digital Art
Samia Halaby: Reflecting Reality in Abstract Pictures
Rena Grant: Response to “Reflecting Reality”
Samia Halab: Response to Rena Grant
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert & Rachel Winter: From Jerusalem to New York: Biography and Timeline of Samia Halaby
Selected Bibliography and List of Collections
About the Authors
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert & Rachel Winter: Curators’ Preface and Acknowledgements: To Return, Again
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert: Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
Rachel Winter: On Place: A Conversation with Samia Halaby
Plates
Samia Halaby: My History with Digital Art
Samia Halaby: Reflecting Reality in Abstract Pictures
Rena Grant: Response to “Reflecting Reality”
Samia Halab: Response to Rena Grant
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert & Rachel Winter: From Jerusalem to New York: Biography and Timeline of Samia Halaby
Selected Bibliography and List of Collections
About the Authors
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