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| | Daniel Oates - Fine Art |
 | | He's forsaken his handmade retinue of blue-collar workers, cops and cleaning ladies for a world of myth and fairy tale - one in which metamorphoses, fantasy and imagination are the stuff not of dreams, but of everyday life. |
 | | Trained in England as an artisan, Oates, 33, is known for expertly carving wood, resin and styrene. |
 | | But whereas Koons focused soley on the transformation of cultural artifacts through appropriation, Oates is more concerned with transformation in the narrative sense, as in tales of the supernatural. |
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