Iran Inside Out - Pouran Jinchi

July 23, 2009 The New York Times Holland Cotter

Art in Review
Chelsea Art Museum

Excerpt–

In a group exhibition with 56 participants of different ages working in all kinds of mediums, coherence isn’t the first thing to look for, and you don’t find it in “Iran Inside Out.” What you do find is a high ratio of vigorous work by contemporary Iranian artists who live in their homeland or elsewhere. You get a sense of the cultural forces that have shaped those lives and continue to in this 30th-anniversary year of the Iranian revolution...

Often, though, inside-versus-outside is hard to discern at a glance. Almost all the artists here have a stake, in some way, in exploring what it means to be Iranian, and sometimes in the same way, no matter where they are. Golnaz Fathi, who lives in Tehran, walks the line between calligraphy and abstraction in his paintings; so does Pouran Jinchi, who lives in New York.

–Holland Cotter


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