Oil Painting Collections
Built up over months. Pigment that has been worked, scraped, and worked again.
For two decades, Chan-Ao has worked between oil and ink — the first slow, the second instantaneous — returning to three subjects again and again: a flower that refuses to open the same way twice, the rooms a person leaves behind, and the long walk through a country that keeps changing under foot.
Built up over months. Pigment that has been worked, scraped, and worked again.
Made in a single sitting. The brush kept honest by paper that will not forgive a second pass.
A studio film, and two essays on the work by the critics Deng and Hsiao.