Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi Explained
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi |
Birth Date: | 1944 |
Birth Place: | Cairo |
Nationality: | American |
Education: | Harvard University |
Known For: | ceramic art |
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist.
Personal background
She was born in 1944 in Cairo to Iraqi parents,[1] living and working in the United States,[2] is a ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter. She is considered both as a "famous Arab American female artist"[3] and as a "specialist in Islamic art" [4]
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions have been held in Beirut, 1966, 68, and 70; Florence, 1967; Abu Dhabi, 1976; Jedda, 1981; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983; London, 1984 and 85; Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia, 1990; Sackler Museum, 2001.[5] She participated to the group exhibition Forces of change presented in 1994 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, where her work was described as "abstract expressionist".[6]
Educational pursuits
Her doctoral thesis in the history of Islamic art from Harvard University,[7] Beyond the symmetries of Islamic geometric patterns : the science of practical geometry and the process of Islamic design, made a "pioneering use of tessellation theory for the analysis of angular interlacing patterns".[8] She directed and designed the book Issam El-Said: Artist and Scholar published in 1989 by the Issam El-Said Foundation.[9] She taught and published on Islamic geometry.[10] She is an instructor at the Ceramics Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard University.[11] [12]
MuseumsHer ceramic pieces have been acquired by notable museums around the world such as:The British Museum
- The Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh;The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where a 2019 gallery re-install includes a video interview with the artist alongside one of her pieces;[13] Harvard Art Museums /Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger, Arther M. Sackler Museum
Beit Al Qur'an, Bahrain, among others.
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Notes and References
- Book: Oweis, Fayeq. Encyclopedia of Arab American artists. ABC-CLIO. 2008. 978-0-313-33730-7. 78–80.
- News: Temin. Christine. Shaped by Islam the Work of Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi Combines Ceramics, Calligraphy, and a touch of her faith. Boston Globe. August 31, 2002.
- Book: Kayyali, Randa A.. The Arab Americans. 129. 2006. Greenwood Publishing . 978-0-313-33219-7.
- Book: Kappraff, Jay. Connections: the geometric bridge between art and science. limited. 2001. World Scientific. 978-981-02-4586-3. 205.
- Web site: Wasma'a K. Chorbachi. World's Women on line. August 18, 2011.
- Anne Mullin Burnham, 1994, Reflections in Women's Eyes, Saudi Aramco World
- Web site: Mikdadi. Salwa. West Asia: Between Tradition and Modernity. Metropolitan Museum of Art. August 18, 2011.
- Book: Rogers, J.M.. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 60, 1997.
- http://www.issam-el-said.co.uk/index2.html Issam-El-Said
- http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1664688 In the Tower of Babel: Beyond symmetry in islamic design
- Web site: Dr. Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi. Harvard Ceramics. August 18, 2011.
- Web site: Islamic Ceramic Traditions Seminar. Office for the Arts at Harvard. August 18, 2011.
- Web site: Arts of Islamic Cultures. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. en. 2019-11-08.