Samia Halaby
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Over her nearly-60-year career, the Jerusalem-born artist has established herself as a leading proponent of contemporary abstract art. Halaby’s work, the biennale catalogue states, “draws inspiration from nature and cultural movements such as early Islamic architecture and the Soviet avant-garde,” to “translate movement, light, and rhythm into vibrant compositions that merge modernist abstraction with her idiosyncratic visual language.” She has 11 works on show at the biennale, including this untitled piece from 1977 — one of three works on paper from her “mid-1970s experiment with optical effects and illusions, using limited color palettes.”
Halaby, the catalogue notes, “believes that new approaches to painting can transform our ways of seeing and thinking — not only within aesthetics, but also as a way to discover new perspectives for advancements in teaching, technology, and society at large.”
