Title: Expanded Borders

Year: 1986

Media: Acrylic on paper

Size: 18.5 x 28 cm

About the work: I made this piece as part of a series that was exhibited in Granada, Spain. I was testing the relationship between line and shape, thinking of line as a path of motion and shape as a field that is cut by a line.

Bio: 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 recognized as a pioneer of contemporary abstraction in the Arab world. Halaby draws inspiration from nature and historical movements, such as early Islamic architecture and the Soviet avant-garde. Her work is exhibited in galleries and private collections throughout the world. Halaby is in the permanent collections of museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art (New York and Abu Dhabi); Institut du Monde Arabe; and Tate Modern.