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Olive Press Portfolio II: Barnett Newman: The Paintings (red)
1992 · color screenprint, 1 of suite of 4: Red
Sheet: 57.9 x 106.4 cm (22 13/16 x 41 7/8 in.); Image: 39.2 x 100.1 cm (15 7/16 x 39 7/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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David Diao
1943
Mixed MediaContemporary
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None documented
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5
Works in Collection
16
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2
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David Diao is a Chinese-born, New York-based painter whose canvases investigate the structures and histories of abstraction itself, incorporating diagrammatic layouts, architectural plans, and institutional genealogies as compositional elements. His work has been exhibited at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
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Contemporary
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Mixed Media
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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