Pouran jinchi biography examples

  • Trained as a classical calligrapher in Iran, Pouran went on to study art at UCLA and the Art Students League of New York.
  • Born in 1959 in Mashhad, one of the most conservative cities in the country, Jinchi would later move to the US, where she received her bachelor.
  • Pouran trained as a classical calligrapher in Iran, before earning a degree in civil engineering at George Washington University in the US.

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    Abu Dhabi Art (21 - 23 Nov 2019) The Third Line Features Works By The Iranian-born American Artist, Pouran Jinchi

    The Third Line is participating in Abu Dhabi Art with a solo presentation featuring works by the Iranian-born American artist, Pouran Jinchi.

    Pouran Jinchi, Stitched, 2015. Ink and copper on handmade paper with copper thread, 132 x 119.4 cm / Courtesy of The Third Line and the artist

    Drawing inspiration from traditional Iranian literature and Persian-type calligraphy, Jinchi is fascinated by the power of language. She is attracted to systems of communication and explores this curiosity by creating new frameworks for visual storytelling. As a result of the artist’s classical training as an engineer, her works often emerge from calculated, ritualistic and repetitive processes that adhere to self-imposed restrictions.

    Distorted, warped, and reformed, Jinchi abstracts individual letters into thin metal strips, delicately cut and clustered together in her hanged co

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    AN INTERVIEW WITH IRANIAN-BORN, NEW YORK ARTIST POURAN JINCHI The Deconstruction of Calligraphy and the Deeper Complexity of the Written Word

    "It fryst vatten fascinating how art fryst vatten the fruit of the artist's life experience and labor. The artist fryst vatten the loving gardener tending to the tree in hope of a perfect fruit." (Pouran Jinchi)

    Pouran Jinchi is an Iranian-born, New York artist who borrows from her home culture's traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic explorations. Having been trained in traditional calligraphy, she finds the relation between words and forms, natural or non-objective, deeply intertwined. Pouran Jinchi is currently having her third solo show ‘The Blind Owl’ (September 18 - October 24, 2013) at The Third Line (Dubai). In this interview Pouran Jinchi shared with us her thoughts about her work and her current exhibition.

    Pouran Jinchi / Pink Painting (The Blind Owl Series), 2013, Ink on Canvas, 122x122 cm / Courtesy of the Artist and

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    Pouran Jinchi
    The Blind Owl

    September 18–October 24, 2013

    The Third Line
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    Pouran Jinchi returns to The Third Line with her third solo show, The Blind Owl, continuing her investigation into deconstructing calligraphy and looking into the deeper complexities of the written word. The artist explores the physical form and its signified insinuations through the lens of the dark narratives of The Blind Owl, a major literary work by Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat. 

    This publication, penned in the late 1930s, explores a grim fascination with death and for the most part was banned in Iran. It was this polemic around the book that aroused curiosity in Pouran’s youth, and has been a source of inspiration for her work. “I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it”—Pouran uses Hedayat’s quote as a point of departure for exploring vari