Chen has come a long way since she graduated from the National Academy of Art. She started to study with master Li Chung-shen (李仲生), widely dubbed as the father of modern art in Taiwan, in 1981. Li showed her how to be improvisational and expressive with her artistic creation, such as pouring pigment on to the paper and letting the ink flow, or following unconscious hand movement to build up lines and images.
Chen had her first solo exhibition in 1984 in Taipei, and has reached out since then to far flung places such as Cairo, Paris, and Lubeck, Germany.
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