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After printing these already-mediated images, enlarging and silkscreening them onto canvas, he painted over them\u2014either erasing lines and shapes with white paint, extending marks with black brushstrokes, or adding spurts of spray paint. Exploring the dichotomy of the virtual and the handmade, these hybrid paintings raise questions about what constitutes freedom and control, addressing the intimate relationship between computer technology and human labor.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"245 \u00d7 190.5 cm (96 1\/2 \u00d7 75 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":190,"height":245,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Screen print, acrylic and oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Gift of Donna and Howard Stone","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"H.W. Holzwarth, ed., Albert Oehlen, (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), 275 (color ill.), 651.\n\nJames Rondeau and Judith Russi Kirshner, Contemporary collecting: the Donna and Howard Stone collection, exh. cat. 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