SHEN CHEN
Essay by Robert C. Morgan
Published by CYNTHIA-REEVES, 2014
36 pages + cover; includes artist statement.
“Shen’s blurred, misty effects are deeply poetic in their intent; His brushwork, leaving traces of color on carefully prepared canvases, communicates a love of subtle reasoning that seduces his audience into a contemplative reverie, the abstractions serving as a kind of matrix enabling the extended study of the effect of Shen’s hand on the surface of his paintings. The work may seem neat at first, but the artist endeavors to create an atmosphere that stands up to the recent history of painting and is seen as a way of communicating fundamental values about art.”
