81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist - Samia Halaby
March 2018
Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old. She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since."
by BILL WINTERS
Vogue Arabia
Break Away
September 2017
"After nearly 60 years of identifying the essentials of abstraction, the great contemporary Palestinian artist Samia Halaby’s latest work is now guided by intuition."
by MAYMANAH FARHAT
Wall Street International
Samia Halaby
May 2017
"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."
Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia
Illuminated Space
March 2017
"In the weeks leading up to her 80th birthday in December, abstract painter Samia Halaby was busy preparing for back-to-back solo exhibitions while also working towards the release of two new publications. At this late stage in her celebrated career, Halaby shows no signs of slowing down—if anything she seems to have increased her creative output."
by MAYMANAH FARHAT