Samia Halaby
January 1982

Name: January 1982
Brand: Samia Halaby
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About the Item

January 1982 Color Xerox Print, 1982 Signed and dated in pencil (see photo) Titled and dated lower left (see photo) Condition; Excellent Image size: 17 x 15 1/2 inches Frame size: 24 1/8 x 18 inches Created while the artist was an Associate Professor at Yale Univeristy School of Art This work on paper seems to quite rare. I can find only two imressions of this image. After retiring from teaching, Halaby began experimenting with electronic art forms during the 1980s, teaching herself how to program Basic and C programming languages on an Amiga 2000 computer. The results were short programs that ran on their own with abstract images in motion and with sound that she called kinetic paintings. A few years later during the early 1990s Halaby began programing on a PC converting the keyboard into an abstract painting piano. This program was also called Kinetic Painting and was not published but remained the artist's private tool. She used it to perform live with musicians. Multi-percussion musician, Kevin Nathaniel Hylton became her main collaborator as she begun the public performance process utilizing her program. With musician Hasan Bakr they formed the Kinetic Painting Group and performed at numerous off-Broadway venues often accompanied by other musicians. The present work came out of these experimentations. "Born in Jerusalem in 1936, Samia Halaby is a leading abstract painter and an influential scholar of Palestinian art. Although based in the United States since 1951, Halaby is recognised as a pioneer of contemporary abstraction in the Arab world. Halaby began her career in the early 1960s, shortly after graduating from Indiana University with a MFA in Painting. While teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964, she travelled to the Eastern Mediterranean as part of a faculty research grant and studied the geometric abstraction of the region’s Islamic architecture, which has continuously factored into her work. During this time, Halaby launched a series of experiments that would initiate a career-long investigation of the materialist principles of abstraction: how reality can be represented through form. Also influenced by the abstract movements of the Russian avant-garde, Halaby works with the conviction that new approaches to painting can redirect ways of seeing and thinking not only within the realm of aesthetics but also as contributions to technological and social advancement. This underlying notion has led to additional experiments in drawing, printmaking, computer-based kinetic art, and free-from-the- stretcher painting. Halaby has been collected by international institutions since the 1970s, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art (New York and Abu Dhabi); Yale University Art Gallery; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Institut du Monde Arabe; and the British Museum. From the 1960s until the late 1980s, Halaby taught at universities throughout the United States. She was the first full-time female associate professor at the Yale School of Art, a position she held for a decade. Her noteworthy contributions to American academia include a groundbreaking undergraduate studio art program that she introduced to art departments throughout the Midwest. Selected solo shows for the artist include Ayyam Gallery (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015); Birzeit University Museum, Ramallah (2017); Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (2015). She has participated in recent group shows at Grey Art Gallery, New York City, USA (2020); Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine (2019); Ayyam Gallery (2017, 2018); Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington, USA (2017); Palestine Museum, Birzeit, Palestine (2017); Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (2017); The School of Visual Arts, New York, USA (2017); Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA (2016); 3rd Qalandiya International Biennial (2016); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2015); the National Academy of Arts, New York (2015); The Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi (2014); Broadway 1602, New York (2014); and Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2009). Halaby’s writings on art have appeared in Leonardo: Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Jerusalem Quarterly, and Arab Studies Quarterly, in addition to edited volumes, while her independently published survey Liberation Art of Palestine: Palestinian Paintings and Sculpture in the Second Half of the 20th Century (2002) is considered a seminal text of Palestinian art history. In 2017 Schilt Publishing released Halaby’s Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre while Palestine Books Inc published Growing Shapes: Aesthetic Insights of an Abstract Painter. In 2014 Booth-Clibborn Editions published the artist’s second monograph, Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation." Courtesy Ayyam Gallery, UAE Collections Alternative Museum, New York, USA The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE The British Museum Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Darat Al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan, USA Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, USA Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York, USA Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Memphis State University Art Collection, Tennessee, USA Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, USA The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA The National Museum of Jordan, Amman, Jordan The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA Nelson Rockhill Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, USA Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Tamarind Lithography Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA The Jane Voorheese Immerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA The University Gallery - Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, USA University of Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Yale University Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Creator:
Samia Halaby (1936, Palestinian)
Dimensions:
Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)
Medium:
Inkjet
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA122201stDibs: LU14010315632