Pouran Jinchi

Pouran Jinchi
Born 1959 (age 56–57)
Mashhad, Iran
Education George Washington University, University of California, Los Angeles, Art Students League of New York
Known for Deconstructed Islamic Calligraphy and Sculpture
Website http://pouranjinchi.com/

Pouran Jinchi (born 1959 in Mashhad, Iran)[1][2] is an Iranian-American, New York-based artist.[3] She is best known for her abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art.

Biography

Pouran Jinchi borrows from her Iranian cultural traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic investigations.[4] Trained as a calligrapher in Mashad, Iran, Jinchi received a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, from George Washington University, Washington, DC in 1982, before studying Sculpture and Painting, University of California, Los Angeles, California in 1989 and Studio Painting, Art Students League of New York, New York City in 1993.[2]

Jinchi's work often employs a mixture of calligraphy and abstract expressionism that intertwines Islamic geometry, Iranian traditions and contemporary aesthetics, with a unique lyricism.[5] Her early Poetry paintings are both abstract and literal presentations of poems in which texts are morphed beyond recognition into flowing, anthropomorphic shapes. Having been trained in calligraphy, she finds the relation between words and forms, natural or non-objective, deeply intertwined. Jinchi's recent work reflects an increasingly detailed focus on the form of language as subject matter.[4] Her calligraphy work is in Farsi, but deconstructed and ineligible to read, even for native Farsi speakers.[1]

Jinchi has exhibited extensively and has had eight solo exhibitions in New York alone.[6] Recent exhibitions include a two-person show at Frieze Art Fair, London (2011) and solo exhibitions at Art Projects International, New York (2012),[7] The Third Line, Dubai (2010), the Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2011), and the Vilcek Foundation,[8] New York (2008).

Her work has also been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brooklyn Museum and the Queens Museum of Art. Jinchi was included in Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Art Museum (2009) and most recently in New Blue and White at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2013).

Her work is represented in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York; Farjam Collection, Dubai; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Federal Reserve Bank, New York; and several major corporate collections.

References

  1. 1 2 "Pouran Jinchi, collection records". The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Museum). Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  2. 1 2 "Pouran Jinchi (Iranian, b. 1959)". Christie's. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  3. ↑ Siegal, Nina (October 17, 2012). "Persian Calligraphy, Pouran Jinchi, Opens a Door to Modern Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  4. 1 2 International, API – Art Projects. "Pouran Jinchi Artist Bio | API 212.343.2599". www.artprojects.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Artspace". Artspace. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  6. ↑ "archivepouranjinchi". arttattler.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  7. ↑ "NYAB Event – Pouran Jinchi "Dawn, Noon and Night"". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  8. ↑ "The Vilcek Foundation Spring 2008 Newsletter". The Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
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