Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944 (age 81–82) Cairo |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Known for | ceramic art |
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist.
Personal background
[edit | edit source]Born in 1944, in Cairo to Iraqi parents,[1]Khalid is a Ceramicist, calligrapher, and painter who lives and works in the United States.[2]She is recognized as a "prominent Arab American female artist"[3]and a "specialist in Islamic art"[4]
Selected exhibitions
[edit | edit source]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 in 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
[edit | edit source]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]
Museums Her 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.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Arabesque
- Iraqi art
- Islamic art
- Islamic calligraphy
- List of Iraqi artists
- List of Iraqi women artists
References
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- ^ Issam-El-Said
- ^ In the Tower of Babel: Beyond symmetry in islamic design in Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 17 Issue 4-6, January 1989
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Art by Chorbachi at Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
- An Islamic Pentagonal Seal coauthored by Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi in Fivefold Symmetry,1992
- Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi, by Raquel Wharton Rohr excerpted from vol 1. number 3 Spring 2009 of Sgraffito, the Harvard Ceramics Program newsletter
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