Pouran Jinchi is an Iranian-American artist whose practice navigates the space between abstraction and calligraphy, where language becomes texture, rhythm, and memory. Born in Mashhad, Iran—a city of sacred geometry and devotional architecture—Jinchi grew up attuned to the symbolic weight of ornament, script, and structure. Initially trained as a civil engineer, she later studied classical calligraphy in Iran and visual arts in the U.S., synthesizing a meticulous formalism with gestural freedom. Her work deconstructs Persian script into mark, motion, and silence—blurring boundaries between the literary and the visual, the sacred and the secular. Through layered, often untranslatable scripts, Jinchi transforms language into material meditation, exploring themes of ritual, entropy, and cultural dislocation. Her distinct aesthetic collapses systems of order into poetic ambiguity, where writing resists readability and becomes a sensory field.
