Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
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.
 
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Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy
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.
 
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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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783777442686
Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
Publication date: 03/29/2024
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 10.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert joined the Eskenazi Museum of Art as its first curator of contemporary art in 2019.

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

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