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Fine Art
By Marjorie Husain
Etched in the Mind

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Rani asks me to sing a song

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At night we all come to the house at Aligarh

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At night I go to the house at Aligarh

For Zarina Hashmi the decade of the nineties has begun with a tremendously exciting and eventful year. The artist is now established and renowned internationally, after many years of striving and hard decisions. She has her studio in New York and is presently in Karachi, on vacation from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches printmaking. 

Zarina's work is included in numerous major international and private collections, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris where the artist's work will be displayed later this year. 

For Zarina, the events of the year began in February, when, as a sole junior, she attended the Pacific State National Biennial Print Exhibition held in Hawaii. Then, in May, an exhibition of her recent work--bronze, cast paper and etchings--was held at the Roberta English Gallery, San Francisco. Zarina's latest work, to be displayed at the Gallery Chawkandi this month, is the achievement of a long ambition. Zarina has completed a portfolio consisting of seven prints accompanied by text. Limited to sixteen editions, the portfolio deals with the artist's early life and memories, and each print is dedicated to a family member. It is both an acknowledgement of early childhood consciousness and an affirmation of life. 

Original, independent, a committed feminist and role model, Zarina still returns to the house where she was born. Here, surrounded by a loving family, the artist spent

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The Herald, September 1990