Samia Halaby

Samia Halaby is a painter and explorer of the language of pictures. Her love of painting combined with theoretical writings on the subject have led her to explore the potential of the visual language. Her explorations include abstractions in motion programming the computer; paintings free from the stretcher; folded, layered, and stitched paintings; hanging three-dimensional paintings; and paintings that are to be read as scrolls or books. After decades of invisibility in the art world, now in the late season of her life she is preparing a number of retrospectives around the world, while her digital art of the 1980s is finding acceptance at international art fairs.

From Painting and the Personal Computer | Samia Halaby, March 2023