Fu Qiumeng Fine Art is thrilled to present The Mountains Show and Hide: Color in the Landscape Paintings of Arnold Chang, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1996. Chang in his five-decade career as an artist has painted ink landscapes in the traditional Chinese literati manner. The Mountains Show and Hide, showcasing Chang’s landscape paintings of the past ten years, marks his newly developed approach of seamlessly integrating color into his landscape creations. In contrast to most classical Chinese literati paintings, where color was often an afterthought that followed the forms rendered through ink lines and washes, Chang treats ink lines and flat color washes as separate components. In this new series, the artist experiments with different pigments from Europe and Japan and meticulously explores diverse color combinations. Here color works in tandem with ink to create landscape compositions that resonate harmoniously but somewhat independently of each other. With the incorporation of color into landscape painting, Chang continues to challenge and help redefine Chinese art in the contemporary era. The exhibition is curated by Joy Xiao Chen, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese art history at the University of California, Los Angeles and a former Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.