“Samia Halaby: Eye Witness,” a multi-decade retrospective of one of the most important abstract artists of our time, was organized and planned for over two years by the MSU Broad Art Museum.
Featuring more than 60 works, “Eye Witness” chronicles the artist’s journey starting in the 1950s. The comprehensive survey leads audiences through Halaby’s monumental artistic career with paintings, digital work, sculptures and drawings.
Halaby earned her master's degree from MSU in 1960. It was at Michigan State that she began painting in earnest with oil on canvas and pursued her ambition to be an abstract painter more seriously.
“To present nearly seven decades of painting by an important and prolific artist is no easy feat, and it requires years of research, thought and planning,” said curator Rachel Winter. “This exhibition presents Halaby’s work through the lens of place in order to understand how Halaby’s visual language changed as she moved between the Midwest, New York, Europe and the Arab world.”
“Samia Halaby: Eye Witness” is on view until Dec. 15, 2024.
