One of the most startling and powerful works of art now on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art is virtually fresh out of the studio.

“Mapping the Universe,’’ 2024, is a towering abstraction made with ink and brushes on paper by contemporary Chinese-American artist, curator and scholar Arnold Chang , whose mission is to reinvent traditional Chinese landscape painting for the 21 st century.

Judging from Chang’s marquee painting and other works in a high-impact, one-room show about his work , on view through Nov. 9, he’s getting the job done.

Installed vertically behind a large glass panel, “Mapping the Universe’’ is more than 16 feet high and six feet wide. Its shape recalls a traditional Chinese or Japanese scroll painting, unfurled on a wall.

Cleveland Museum of Art

Yet instead

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