Pouran Jinchi was born in Iran and currently resides and works in New York. After graduating from George Washington University with a degree in Civil Engineering, Jinchi went on to pursue an artistic education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and The Art Students League of New York, with a focus in painting and sculpture. A fellow artist once described her work, saying it appeared as if ; “Islam invaded the Abstract Expressionists.”
Read MoreBorrowing from Persian literature and calligraphy, Jinchi composes intricate multimedia works that capture the sinuous, harmonic form of Persian art and evoke—through both abstraction and representation— the content of Iran’s rich poetic heritage. Often taking language as her subject matter, Jinchi uses her training in calligraphy to contort the contours and structure of text and to disintegrate the distinction between shapes and words, objects and abstractions. Her vividly sensuous paintings can be regarded as an aesthetic investigation of written linguistic abstraction.
Jinchi’s work is included in major collections worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Fine Arts Museum in Houston; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; the Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank, NY; and the Farjam Collection, Dubai.
Text courtesy Leila Heller Gallery.
