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Dislocating the Center:
Contemporary Chinese Art
Beyond National Borders


Landscape, 2008
Arnold Chang
Dislocating the Center: Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond National Borders brings together three international artists whose works compel us to reconsider the ways in which we understand contemporary Chinese art in terms of the cultural dynamics of globalization. American photographer Michael Cherney, Chinese-American painter Arnold Chang, and French calligrapher André Kneib work in styles and formats traditionally reserved for Chinese painting and calligraphy. According to the exhibition's co-curator Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History, "Michael Cherney's photographic album leaves and handscrolls, Arnold Chang's landscape paintings, and André Kneib's calligraphy offer us an opportunity to reach a new understanding of contemporary Chinese art as transnational and global projects that transcend both ethic identity and national borders.


Untitled Album (H3), 2003-2004
Michael Cherney



Dislocating the Center is curated by Associate Professor of Art History
Stephen J. Goldberg and Carol Conover K'72. It is made possible
with funds from The John B. Root '44 Exhibition Fund, The Dietrich
Foundation, and The Edward W. and Grace C. Root Endowment Fund.

GALLERY IMAGES
Tlingit
HEADDRESS FRONTLET, 1825-1850
Wood; red, black, and blue-green paint; abalone
(restored)
7 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.
Collection of the Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College.

Images Copyright © the artist, their estate, and/or Hamilton College.