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Pouran Jinchi
Iranian-born American artist (born 1959)
Pouran Jinchi (born 1959; Persian: پوران جین چی) is an Iranian-born American visual artist.[1] She is known for her abstract, calligraphy-based contemporary visual art.
Jinchi lives in New York City.
Early life and education
Pouran Jinchi was born in 1959, in Mashhad, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran).[2][3]
Trained as a calligrapher in Mashad, Iran, Jinchi received a bachelor of science in 1982 in civil engineering, from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; before studying sculpture and painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, California in 1989; and studio painting at the Art Students League of New York, New York City in 1993.[3]
Art career
Jinchi borrows from her Iranian cultural traditions of literature and calligraphy to pursue her own aesthetic investigations.[4] Jinchi's work often employs a mixture of calligraphy and abstract expressionism t