Angles #2

Beijing-based Jewish American photographer Michael Cherney and American-born Chinese artist Arnold Chang created a work by uniting their disparate media. Cherney’s poetic photographs capture real landscapes in China. Here, by adding his brushwork, Chang completed an excerpt from his photographs that was printed on Chinese xuan paper to create a full composition. The resulting artwork defies categorization as painting or photograph, contemporary or traditional, Chinese or American, and expands age-old definitions of Chinese ink painting.