Twilight Road Trip

Liu Chih-Hung’s verdant oil paintings

By Kate Mothes

Taipei-based artist Liu Chih-Hung’s small-scale paintings evoke a sense of curiosity in the textures, colors, and subtle mysteries of plants and landscapes. With titles like ‘Road Trip’ and ‘Phantom of the Trees,’ there is a sense of the artist and viewer as temporary visitors, prizing out the details of a palm frond or the glare of light on a stand of trees before moving along through the gloaming.

chihhung-1 — Google Sketch 1_Menghuan, 2021. Oil on canvas, 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.

chihhung-9new — Road Trip 4, 2017. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.

chihhung-7 — Chuanyuan Road, 2016. Watercolor and acrylic on canvas, 3 1/8 x 4 in.

chihhung-4new — Phantom of the Wood 5, 2017. Oil on canvas 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.

chihhung-2new — Zamioculcas 1, 2018. Oil on canvas, 5 1/2 x 7 1/8 in.

chihhung-8new — Phantom of the Trees 1, 2017. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.

chihhung-5new — Lintou, 2018. Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.

Header image: Road Trip 2, 2017. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.

Twilight Road Trip

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