Zarina in her works adheres to the use of geometry and structural purity, which she drew from her formal education in mathematics and architecture. In the above print from the series 'Cities', Zarina has rendered the layout of a high-rise building representing New York City, in her signature minimalist style. She depicts her subjects in abstract compositions, reminiscing a life left behind. Zarina Hashmi is best known as a printmaker, who prefers to carve rather than drawing the line on paper. In her artistic career, she has explored various mediums of printmaking including intaglio, woodblocks, lithography, and silkscreen. It is signed 'Zarina' and dated '2003' along the lower margin of the print. There is an inscription in Urdu that can be translated as 'New York' along the right margin of the print. There is an inscription in English that reads, 'City-IV' along the lower margin of the print.
- Identifier
- ngma-16336
- Material
- Woodcut, Paper
- Note
- Zarina Hashmi, born in Aligarh, India in (1937) is an Indian born American artist. She received a BSc in mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University in 1958. Zarina went on to study Intaglio, a printmaking technique at Atelier 17, Paris (1964-1967) under the tutelage of the famous printmaker Stanley William Hayter. In 1974, she studied woodblock printing at Toshi Yoshida Studio, Tokyo on a Japan Foundation fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at Art-Omi in Omi and at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, both in New York, where she eventually settled. In 1985 and in 1990 Hashmi was awarded the New York Fine Art Fellowship in the printmaking category. In addition she has taught at Bennington College, Cornell University and the University of California in Santa Cruz. Zarina lives and works in New York.
- Pages
- 25.5 x 29 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
