Brushwork Study for Reorienting Pollock

Arnold Chang’s intuitive ink play, scribbled freely over a flat surface, is built in layers from light to dark ink-dots and strokes that create rhythm, direction, and depth as they connect, condense, and trace the brush’s movements.

An artistic response to Jackson Pollock’s horizontal drip painting Number 10 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exploratory sketch is a predecessor to Secluded Valley in the Cold Mountains, CMA 2024.69. Chang created both the sketch and handscroll for the 2010 exhibition Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition at MFA Boston.