San Francisco's relative proximity to the Far East and its large Chinese and Japanese population no doubt encouraged Bay Area Abstract Expressionists to investigate the expressive language of Asian art.
- Susan Landauer, Paper Trails: San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, 1993

During the period of Abstract Expressionism's development and spread, a significant number of Asian American artists comprised a largely unnoticed group of abstractionists, who, quite logically and naturally, brought together in their personal experience and practice concepts of abstraction derived from the traditional Asian and modern American points of view .... By virtue of their bicultural experiences, they are a bridge generation, representing a true merging of East and West, and their work is a synthesis, on various levels, of Asian and Western aesthetics.
- Jeffrey Wechsler, Asian Traditions, Modern Expressions: Asian American Artists and Abstraction, 1945-1970