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Chaichi makes intimate, vividly hued paintings that are both playful and abstract
Jessica Cherry
Zeinab Chaichi, a first-year graduate student from Iran, makes intimate, vividly hued paintings that are both playful and abstract.
November 5, 2009 | 12:00 a.m. CST
Initially trying to convey loneliness through her art, Chaichi says her abstract paintings now express something spiritual and beyond human comprehension. Subtle lines and colors separate our world from the unknown, she says. Chaichi’s interest in art was piqued after she attended a figure-drawing class with her father in Iran. Feeling she had exhausted her previous work in illustration, for which she had earned a master’s degree, Chaichi set out for a second master’s in painting. She came to the U.S. in search of a more professional learning environment. “I left many things in Iran just to be a professional artist, and I feel I’m in the right place now,” she says.
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