Zarina lived in Bangkok, Delhi, Paris, Bonn, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz before settling in New York in 1976. Although she also works in sculpture and drawing, woodcuts have been of primary importance in her work over the last several decades. Each of the sheets in Home Is a Foreign Place bears an abstract image and a word printed in Urdu, the artist's mother tongue. The terms she chose, such as "threshold," "border," "country" and "door," paired with her minimal images, create a lexicon relating to the theme of home.

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Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, May 5–August 16, 2010.

Medium One from a portfolio of thirty-six woodcuts with letterpress additions, mounted on paper
Dimensions composition: 8 x 6" (20.3 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 16 x 13" (40.7 x 33 cm)
Publisher Zarina
Printer Zarina
Edition 25
Credit Acquired through the generosity of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis in honor of Edgar Wachenheim III
Object number 1371.2009.1
Department Drawings and Prints

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