"Zirin’s fertile and prodigious decades-long output of vivid, alternately hot and cool paintings echoes the efforts of founding members [American Abstract Artists] such as Josef Albers, Alice Trumbull Mason, and John Opper (with whom she studied), as well as teacher-mentors from her time at NYU, such as George Ortman, with his attention to geometry and constructivism, and Milton Resnick, a master of allover texture and paint handling. At the same time, she joins recent peers to move abstract painting in a slightly more detached direction..."
–Cynthia Nadelman