Chinyee (b. 1929, China, lives and works in USA) Solids, 1964 Oil on canvas Chinese-American Chinyee left Nanjing in 1974 to study in New York, where she received her BFA from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and MA from New York University. The explosion in abstraction around her offered a way of bridging the Eastern traditions of brush and ink calligraphy and watercolours, with a new form of self-expression. Although her early abstract works reveal traces of figuration, she gradually adopted a looser brushwork that draws on both calligraphic traditions and Western abstraction. Courtesy of the artist and Alisan Fine Arts #Art