Today I received from Beijing, China two magazines that featured my art work.  The first is New Vision October edition, 2009.   The second is HeArt Magazine, published by the art group that is hosting my gallery show in Beijng, China, April, 2010. 

Below I have posted the pages from both magazines.  This is the translation of what was written in New Vision Magazine:


Feminist Art Movement began in late 1960s, along with the western Feminist Movement, female artists started using art, as their weapons, to defend their female dignity. The famous American artist Judy Chicago was one of the examples. “The Dinner Party” was a representative artwork of the Feminist Art Movement. In the 1990s, Feminist Art has been entangled together with Postmodern Art, and finally became an integral part of the Postmodern Art theory. Differed from this last movement, this time, women artists began to determine their own value from the points of politics and “social return”, to consider more of their special artistic status as female artists.


Few of the present day female artists express their art through the political or historical themes. They are more likely to start with the experience of their daily lives, perceptively to express their sentiment of nature and life. The methods they prefer to use are cotton, wool, soft and lightweight materials, by way of winding, weaving or any other way to express the detail and careful psychology of women.

Peggy Guichu is an American artist. American Feminist Art has been developed successfully and has become more diversified, instead of the traditional view of gender dualism. Her works are more of the sense from her own life experiences, expressing the feelings in her impressions is an expression of the Feminist Art. By way of using the correct colors and fantastic forms, she always put her thoughts of life, which she has gathered through her life's journey into her art work.

“Overflowing”, she said, “I see this as the overflowing of abundance with rushing water forced through the narrow passageway of life and spilling over the edge, not wasted, but being carried into the next life.” The red colored mountain, the colorful watermark, the water waves formed by the rushing water, the timeless and endless river, refer to the steps of life, being enveloped in a magic dream. Such an emotional form of expression is her way to change her feelings over to the actualization, an explanation of life, the image of her real experience.

“Martini Anyone”, a creation after a comical parody of what one sees and feels after the consumption of alcohol. The beautiful flower and the feeling of floating on water are all her interpretations of what she sees of others in their intoxication.

“Ladder”, she said this work she saw as a journey in the path of life moving up, where we can take a short rests on each ledge as humans access spiritual knowledge, then continue to move forward, to explore, till one reaches the top, and further to be raised again into another world.

These works are in form of abstract. Wassily Kandinsky said that his abstract paintings were a way to express his inner feeling of the nature. He thought paintings and music had certain internal consistency. Peggy said,” Creating my paintings is like composing music, the formation of a chorus.” As she has pureed so much of her personal emotion in her paintings, she feels that those collectors who have bought her paintings hold her secrets. She feels as if she has lost something so precious to her. “My wish is that those that buy my paintings will have the same connection as I do. See the magic, hear the symphony, allow the light to reveal the secrets of my soul.” We can say that her paintings are very typical of the female artist. More emotional expression, more private in the nature, more fantastic temperaments, and soft cotton like objects frequently used. All those features come to the identity of our female artist, Peggy Guichu’s works. Whether she consciously or unconsciously used them, they are all the suitable features for her expressions.

Whether it is a quiet or dynamic image, being peaceful and beautiful, are permeated with meaning in her works. The beautiful flowers in “An Offering”, she said,” A gesture of good will and peace to Mother Earth.” In “Peace”,she said, "The original image of a waterfall becomes a white colored large majestic bird, carrying articles of peace to offer the world." In “Watching Over US” is interpreted as the sun above the earth, the cloud formed into human faces expressing happiness, refers to the Mother and Father of all that watches over us on earth. “Is It Too Later?”, the blood flowing from the eye is an expression of the concern for the condition of the globe. “Rose Pods”, expressed in the nine rose buds surrounded by pods represents the 9 word Zen Prayer.  The roses grace the prayer with beauty and love.  The prayer floats on the eternal waters of life carrying peace and contentment to the world. “Unity”, represents the connection of all there is.

Females, their grasp of the world is balanced and peaceful. Just like what Jia FangZhou said (critics, curator, being involved in ShangYuan Art Center), female artists may not have more interest in the political, historical, philosophical themes, but they show great interest in nature, life, humanity as well as survival related topics, to demonstrate a special love and care.

Privacy of emotional expression, pure picture on works, fantastic visual images, including her love to the world, these are the spirit of Peggy Guichu’s paintings. Being a female artist, she feels the world from her real-life experiences, with her female born care for this world. The female factors in her works are not the gender dualism in the confrontation, not the fighting for the status and social labels of female artists, but all of humanities happiness and blessings.