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Secret Butterfly Heaven
2008 · acrylic, staples, color pencil on canvas and paper
Overall: 253.9 x 233.6 x 129.5 cm (99 15/16 x 91 15/16 x 51 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Tam Van Tran
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- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Tam Van Tran is a visual artist born in Vietnam who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His primary materials for paintings and sculptures include clay and paper, and extend to chlorophyll, glass, algae, staples, crushed eggshells, Wite-out eraser liquid, beet juice, gelatin, and other diverse ingredients which lend texture and intricacy to his organically-molded abstractions.
Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago
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- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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- 2008 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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