Shen Chen

Shen Chen’s (1955, China) abstract work breathes not only the Zen philosophy that underlies it but also something atmospheric, whereby it evokes associations both with the Chinese tradition of painting and with the work of the British landscape painter William Turner or the American color field esthetics of Mark Rothko. This diversity of possible references, and the meditative repetition that constitutes his method, results in a body of work that exposes his Oriental background as well as the Western cultural influences he has undergone.