Shen Chen's paintings are purity in abstraction, creating a new direction. Art critic Robert C. Morgan describes Shen Chen works as a transformation from "the actuality of the material surface into a living, breathing space, an undulating space that rises and falls and moves laterally according to the strength of vision, insight, and ultimately the humanist mark made holistic in the frame where space, color, and time reside…" (Asian Art News, "Clarity Of Vision, Emptiness Of Mind", 2011).

Shen Chen's paintings are purity in abstraction, creating a new direction. Art critic Robert C. Morgan describes Shen Chen works as a transformation from "the actuality of the material surface into a living, breathing space, an undulating space that rises and falls and moves laterally according to the strength of vision, insight, and ultimately the humanist mark made holistic in the frame where space, color, and time reside…" (Asian Art News, "Clarity Of Vision, Emptiness Of Mind", 2011).