Jazz, too, became an important site of convergence where memory, history, and a black American abstract tradition met. (culturetype.com)
Behnke quotes Floyd Herman who wrote of Hine's work: «His abstractions synthesized a keen sensibility of an accomplished draughtsman with the poetry and inventive structure that linked his work to the American abstract tradition of Stuart Davis, Al Held, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. (painters-table.com)
With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western abstract tradition but also freighted with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzzles. (shop.whitechapelgallery.org)