Palestinian artist born in Al Quds, lives and works in New York

Samia A. Halaby has dedicated herself to the Palestinian cause in both her art and activism. There is no stretcher and no rectangular outline in her recent work. Like many abstractionists of the 20th century. Halaby always questions the relationship of abstract space to the picture plane as a window. In her painting Lake, Halaby challenges the notion of the frame, and explores the rhythm and motion of things. Paper shapes, canvas and tinted paper pulp are collaged together making the work gain a sculptural quality.