Arnold Chang & Michael Cherney, Mount Hua, photography and ink on xuan paper mount on paper

Ink Affinities 墨缘: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and
Michael Cherney, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art
March 18-May 7
Opening reception: March 18, 6-8pm

During Asia Week New York 2022, Fu Qiumeng will present Ink Affinities 墨缘: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney—the first New York exhibition devoted entirely to their cross-medium and cross-cultural collaboration. More than 20 recent works, none of which have been exhibited or published before, will be on view.

Arnold Chang & Michael Cherney, Mountain Depths #1, 2019, photography and ink on xuan paper mount on paper

Since 2009 the artists Arnold Chang 张洪 (born 1954) and Michael Cherney 秋麦 (born 1969) have created a series of collaborative works that combine traditional ink painting with photography in ways that subtly blur the distinction between the two media. The photographs of Cherney, an American residing in Beijing, and the ink landscapes of Chang, a Chinese-American living in New Jersey, are both rooted in the centuries-old tradition of Chinese painting. The collaborative works begin with Cherney’s meticulously selected excerpts of photographs taken in China and printed on xuan paper, and combine them with Chang’s elegant brushwork, resulting in a dialogue between the two media, as well as a conversation between the two artists. These works challenge the definition of shuimo 水墨 (“ink painting”), while simultaneously embracing and reaffirming the traditional aesthetics of Chinese landscape art.

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