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Rutherford Chang Rewrotes What a Square Could Do

Rutherford Chang Rewrotes What a Square Could Do

Published by José Betancourt

Art history has been punctuated by debates over what a square can mean or do. For Kazimir Malevich, the black square was, in a sense, painting’s building block—a way to strip art down to its most fundamental form. For Ad Reinhardt, it marked an endpoint: He described his black canvases as the last paintings that could be made, as though abstraction had reached its logical conclusion. Of course, his was not the final word. Josef Albers continued the inquiry, nesting colorful quadrilaterals in his “Homage to the Square” series to reveal unexpected interactions of color and the ways they generate depth and space. Related Articles Rutherford Chang took this conversation a step further in the 21st century. His work, which was recently on view in a survey at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, centers on squares—but his are not abstract. Rather, they are insistently social. Chang—who died last year at the age of 45—undermines the cool detachment so often associated with the form: its equal sides, its 90-degree angles. View of the exhibition “Rutherford …

APA Member Interview, Chloe W. Chang

APA Member Interview, Chloe W. Chang

Published by Jenni Sidey

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Community Poetry | Victoria Chang, Velislava Kuzmenko

Community Poetry | Victoria Chang, Velislava Kuzmenko

Published by Jenni Sidey

In her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria Chang delineates the line of beauty (a word that appears five times in the poem) that she discovers while contemplating the eponymous painting. Chang translates af Klint’s combination of abstraction and representation—a shell, a fractured field of color—into language, wondering alongside the painter how to move from form to feeling, from “the way a snail’s conch just grows, mostly right but sometimes left,” to the way “it hurts” to apprehend “both the source and the disappearance.” Chang, the author of several poetry collections, including OBIT (2020), which The New York Times named one of the best books of the year, and With My Back to the World (2024), as well as three children’s books and a memoir, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (2021). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and she is currently the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. …

Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy and Aja Gabel on their new books

Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy and Aja Gabel on their new books

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s November Kinship issue, celebrating L.A.’s generous spirit and the artistic collaborations that happen among family and friends. Writing a novel is a lonely endeavor, one that requires thousands of hours in quiet solitude. Or so I used to believe. In the years after the pandemic, I started meeting with four other writers — Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel and Xuan Juliana Wang — for regular work sessions at Little Dom’s, the cozy Italian American restaurant on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz. We sat cloistered in a corner booth and adhered to the Pomodoro method, increasing the usual 25 minutes of work to 40, with breaks in between to talk, over giant meatballs in marinara sauce, fried potatoes with garlic and lemon, butter lettuce Italian tuna salad. What did we talk about in those breaks? Seldomly about our book projects — but everything else, from the serious to the frivolous. The point wasn’t to share pages or workshop chapters. All of us had published one book and were writing …