
David Diao
David Diao’s working life as a painter is a model for us all: a serious and tumultuous fifty-year engagement with the unreliable certainties of art. In the 1970s, he took to the formalist ramparts against post-Minimal informality but was then sideswiped by Pictures and neo-expressionism. Irked by this turn of events, he started reading then-current theories of institutional critique, gender, and identity politics, and in 1984, with the work Glissement, he reinvented his practice as a droll examination of shifting realities in art, history, and personal experience. This