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Samia Halaby

The first and only time I’ve seen one of Samia’s paintings was in Taking Shape, an overview of Modernist abstraction in the Arab world.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University was set to open the first American retrospective of Samia. The show “Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy” was scheduled to open on February 10th 2024, and run until June 9th 2024. The exhibition had been planned by the museum for more than three years and included a substantial catalog, as well as a sister exhibition at Halaby’s other alma mater, Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum, to open in late 2024.

On December 20th 2023, Halaby was informed by the museum’s leadership in a two-sentence letter that the exhibition was canceled out of “safety concerns,” despite no evidence of threats to the artwork or the campus. After privately appealing the decision to IU President Pamela Whitten and receiving no response, the artist and her supporters have gone public to ask for support to reinstate the exhibition.

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Debbie Lynn Manville

Debra is a self-taught painter, beginning at 12 years old in acrylic, always painting bright colors, forms, shapes and text. She attended Rowan University and then she also received her certificate for interior design at NYU.  Her other art interests are photography, collage, landscaping design and writing. Through the years, her artistic language has changed from literal to abstract and vague. She like to use colors and shapes and forms as a language. In 2016, she formed 1milliondiamonds as away not only to help herself catalog art with its own semiotic language that was inspiring, but also to promote artists that were making art that others have not seen.

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Sarah Elise Hall

About her practice Sarah says she has developed a visual lexicon that focuses on the ubiquitous nature of non-biodegradable plastics. Anthropogenic materials such as containers, bins, disposable packaging etc. are embedding themselves into our geologic record as a layer of plastic sediment and hybrid plastiglomerate rock. I envision my extended body of work as processed-based art which further imagines a future geologic narrative that includes fossilized plastic waste.

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Susan Bonfils

Abstract artist Susan Bonfils was born in Lompoc, California. She studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the College of Creative Studies. Upon graduation in 1979, she moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Bonfils has had solo exhibitions in Rome, Italy, and at Oxford University, England. She has been included in numerous curated and group exhibitions. Her work is held in private and public collections. And she curates.

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Sherin Guirguis

Sherin’s new works are an expansion of A’aru // Field of Reeds which the Egyptian-American artist exhibited during her 2023 residency at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu, Hawaii. Continuing her dialogue with contemporary and historical antecedents, Guirguis posits cultural identity and intersectional feminisms through an integration of oral histories, abstracted motifs and a consideration of minimalism and ornamentation in Egyptian aesthetics.

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Dyani White Hawk

Hyperallergic says Dyani’s newest at Various Small Fires is one of 10 Art shows to see in Los Angeles in December (2023). Her mixed media works incorporate beadwork and painting, referencing both Native American traditional art forms alongside European and American modernisms. In doing so, she highlights the influence that Indigenous aesthetics have had on Western art, specifically geometric abstraction.

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Laura Payne

who is a also a painter, has installation work on display with Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess at Okotoks Art Gallery through March 31. Of the work, Payne says she was influenced by “those subtle-but-vivid spectrums of colour in the cloudless sky at dawn or dusk, or the way that hot pink light in November hits the buildings in the city. What I guess I wanted to do is synthesize, artificially, this sort of feeling of witnessing an ephemeral light phenomenon in nature – I want to bottle it, put it in something.”
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