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In her paintings, Anh Trần draws on the history of Western postwar painting, such as American Abstract Expressionism and German abstraction of the 1980s loosely associated with the Neue Wilde movement. Rather than mine the discursive, theoretical, or technical aspects of this history, the artist responds to the emotive quality of these works, which she has primarily engaged through reproductions in books. Trần is interested in liberating the expressive capacity of painting from formal and academic stricture and decentering art history to question the false dualisms of original and replica, …