Circle Series

Tiananmen Series

Menopause

Inner Children

. . . the pieces in her Tiananmen Series are an outpouring of emotion, expressed with a combination of calligraphic and more wildly gestural shapes and drips, of intense primary colors that have both Chinese and western meaning.

Terri Cohn
San Francisco-based writer and art historian

Tiananmen Series 1989

In June of 1989 Chinese students in the People's Republic of China demanded democracy under the regime of Deng Xioaping. I painted seven abstract paintings as my response to the violence that erupted during the Tiananmen protest.

Untitled, 1989, 29" x 41", ink painting with Chinese
brush on paper

The Lone Man Appeared, 1989, 3" x 36", ink painting
with Chinese brush on paper

Sticking the Neck Out, 1989, 22" x 30", ink painting
with Chinese brush on paper

Moon, 1989, 54" x 45", ink painting with
Chinese brush on paper