POURAN JINCHI
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POURAN JINCHI
Born in 1959 Mashad, Iran, Pouran Jinchi first studied Engineering at George Washington University, Washington D. C. in 1982 before studying painting at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, followed by studio painting at the Art Students League in New York in 1993.
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. Jinchi’s early paintings were large scale and heavily layered abstractions, whose flowing lines of saturated color and rolling waves of calligraphy brought to life the form as well as the content of the text to which she was responding. With successive series, Jinchi narrowed her focus to single words, repeated over and over to create the very object they signified, or aesthetics distilled from a single letter, emphasizing the building block of language and thought. In a recent series through large scrolls of Suras from the Qurans written only with pronunciation markers, Jinchi continues to explore the musical rhythm inherent in the text, the echo of each letter lifting and falling on the page. Her works see form and word blur, the text becomes a pattern and the pattern (Eastern and Western textile forms for example) themselves become unreadable text.
Jinchi has exhibited extensively and has had eight solo exhibitions in New York alone. She has exhibited internationally with shows in Japan and Germany and is featured in the permanent collections the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C and the Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, MO. She now lives and works in New York.
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