Above are my Eric Doeringers: he calls them bootlegs of more famous works by "name" artists, and sells them at an open-air table outside art fairs and in the bleak Chelsea gallery district. I consider Doeringer a "name," too--a practicing appropriationist in a lineage with Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Sherrie Levine, and especially Elaine Sturtevant. His craft is good and he has an eye for the most generic "knockoffable" commodities in a practitioner's oeuvre. The critique of authorship and authenticity is especially welcome with Chelsea dealers going nuts pushing said brand names to Bush millionaires: Doeringer is a kind of Mini-Me of the hard-working gallery owner.
Generally he is tolerated, but today a Chelsea gallerist decided he'd had enough, and allegedly sicced the cops on Doeringer. The artist was forced to fold up his table, box up his wares, and move on. James Wagner has a blog post on this. I confess I heard from Doeringer about this earlier in the day and felt that if I were going to be a journalist, I should call the dealer and hear what he had to say, since this particular gallerist has been supportive of unknown artists through publications, curating, and the like. As with the right wing echo chamber, now it's news, though, because someone posted about it. It's just rumormongering at this stage, and this page will priggishly withhold the dealer's name until someone gets a comment in the inevitable first amendment pile-on. Not that it sounds like there can be two sides to this. Assuming it's true, calling the cops for "selling art without a peddler's license" in Bloomberg's incarceration-happy Manhattan is bad karma, bad vibes, and censorship, since it's art we're talking about here and not hot watches.
Update: Someone outside the GNYNVOVEZ (Greater New York Non-Virtual Object Viewing & Evaluating Zone) wondered how bootleg these paintings really are. Left to right in the photo above: The "Damien Hirst," painted on a Fredrix pre-stretched canvas, is decently made but cookie cutter; the colors don't match any particular Hirst. The "Richard Prince" is a scan/ink jet print of a random ad with cowboys; it's not Marlboro, or at least not any Marlboro Prince rephotographed. The "Martin Kippenberger" is an ink jet print of a Kippenberger figure, cut out and collaged onto a Fredrix canvas with little flecks of paint on the surface to look painterly, then sealed with matte varnish. So, to answer the question, his craft is good enough to make a facsimile that passes from a distance, but it's not like they're meticulous forgeries. In his studio he has 10 or 20 lined up in production like an assembly line.
Update 2: As expected, search the dealer's name in technorati and the first eight hits are bloggers dissing him. The money quote, from James' blog, is "He said that he didn't like 'seeing people walking around with tiny paintings...'"
Update 3: It's Mike Weiss! But you already knew that.
Mike Bidlo too. How is the stuff made? Cory told me that the Mario Clouds DVD was just produced from the animated GIF on his site. I'm not sure about his intent, but I think it's actually a little more interesting if all the work is produced in a half-assed way like SMC instead of meticulously reproduced.
Can you get camcorder Cremaster DVDs in ny?
Left to right in the photo above: The Hirst is painted on a Fredrix pre-stretched canvas, decently made but cookie cutter; the colors don't match any particular Hirst. The "Richard Prince" is a scan/ink jet print of a random ad with cowboys; it's not Marlboro, or at least not any Marlboro Prince rephotographed. The "Kippenberger" is an ink jet print of a Kippenberger figure, cut out and collaged onto a Fredrix canvas with little flecks of paint on the surface to look painterly, then sealed with matte varnish.
To answer your question, his craft is good enough to make a facsimile that passes from a distance, but it's not like they're meticulous forgeries. In his studio he has 10 or 20 lined up in production like an assembly line.
Don't know about camcorder Cremasters. I know Doeringer has a Cremaster fan website.
"If [name omitted] is having trouble selling enough art to cover the rent for his gallery, he might want to take a look at his roster of artists. Who buys these bad 80’s and 90’s retreads, anyway? big supporter of doeringer too. but slagging (name omitted's) stable? besides, i sure wouldnt want this guy pissed off at me.
I don't know about Cremaster, but I have a camcorder Shirin Neshat video taken at Gladstone a few years ago.
That's pretty funny how they're made. Like a cross between museum gift shop shwag and fake Guccis and Famiclones.
Also funny that he got shut down for a reason OTHER than some sort of copyright issue.
In the past, he's had copyright attacks from two artists: Sean Landers and Takashi Murakami. Big men pickin' on a little guy.
I remember being really pissed when this guy bootlegged Cory's Clouds and was selling them outside the Whitney. Until Cory said, " He's just doing exactly what I'm doing! I'm bootlegging the Mario Clouds" So, I realized the error of my ways. But Cory was a little pissed that Eric wouldn't give him a complimentary " Clouds" for free!!
Awesome.
Jamie
damn, sounds like his recent troubles might be due to bad art-karma.
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Above are my Eric Doeringers: he calls them bootlegs of more famous works by "name" artists, and sells them at an open-air table outside art fairs and in the bleak Chelsea gallery district. I consider Doeringer a "name," too--a practicing appropriationist in a lineage with Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Sherrie Levine, and especially Elaine Sturtevant. His craft is good and he has an eye for the most generic "knockoffable" commodities in a practitioner's oeuvre. The critique of authorship and authenticity is especially welcome with Chelsea dealers going nuts pushing said brand names to Bush millionaires: Doeringer is a kind of Mini-Me of the hard-working gallery owner.
Generally he is tolerated, but today a Chelsea gallerist decided he'd had enough, and allegedly sicced the cops on Doeringer. The artist was forced to fold up his table, box up his wares, and move on. James Wagner has a blog post on this. I confess I heard from Doeringer about this earlier in the day and felt that if I were going to be a journalist, I should call the dealer and hear what he had to say, since this particular gallerist has been supportive of unknown artists through publications, curating, and the like. As with the right wing echo chamber, now it's news, though, because someone posted about it. It's just rumormongering at this stage, and this page will priggishly withhold the dealer's name until someone gets a comment in the inevitable first amendment pile-on. Not that it sounds like there can be two sides to this. Assuming it's true, calling the cops for "selling art without a peddler's license" in Bloomberg's incarceration-happy Manhattan is bad karma, bad vibes, and censorship, since it's art we're talking about here and not hot watches.
Update: Someone outside the GNYNVOVEZ (Greater New York Non-Virtual Object Viewing & Evaluating Zone) wondered how bootleg these paintings really are. Left to right in the photo above: The "Damien Hirst," painted on a Fredrix pre-stretched canvas, is decently made but cookie cutter; the colors don't match any particular Hirst. The "Richard Prince" is a scan/ink jet print of a random ad with cowboys; it's not Marlboro, or at least not any Marlboro Prince rephotographed. The "Martin Kippenberger" is an ink jet print of a Kippenberger figure, cut out and collaged onto a Fredrix canvas with little flecks of paint on the surface to look painterly, then sealed with matte varnish. So, to answer the question, his craft is good enough to make a facsimile that passes from a distance, but it's not like they're meticulous forgeries. In his studio he has 10 or 20 lined up in production like an assembly line.
Update 2: As expected, search the dealer's name in technorati and the first eight hits are bloggers dissing him. The money quote, from James' blog, is "He said that he didn't like 'seeing people walking around with tiny paintings...'"
Update 3: It's Mike Weiss! But you already knew that.
- tom moody 11-07-2005 6:26 am
Mike Bidlo too. How is the stuff made? Cory told me that the Mario Clouds DVD was just produced from the animated GIF on his site. I'm not sure about his intent, but I think it's actually a little more interesting if all the work is produced in a half-assed way like SMC instead of meticulously reproduced.
Can you get camcorder Cremaster DVDs in ny?
- paul (guest) 11-07-2005 8:14 am
Left to right in the photo above: The Hirst is painted on a Fredrix pre-stretched canvas, decently made but cookie cutter; the colors don't match any particular Hirst. The "Richard Prince" is a scan/ink jet print of a random ad with cowboys; it's not Marlboro, or at least not any Marlboro Prince rephotographed. The "Kippenberger" is an ink jet print of a Kippenberger figure, cut out and collaged onto a Fredrix canvas with little flecks of paint on the surface to look painterly, then sealed with matte varnish.
To answer your question, his craft is good enough to make a facsimile that passes from a distance, but it's not like they're meticulous forgeries. In his studio he has 10 or 20 lined up in production like an assembly line.
Don't know about camcorder Cremasters. I know Doeringer has a Cremaster fan website.
- tom moody 11-07-2005 9:41 am
big supporter of doeringer too. but slagging (name omitted's) stable? besides, i sure wouldnt want this guy pissed off at me.- bill 11-07-2005 6:31 pm
I don't know about Cremaster, but I have a camcorder Shirin Neshat video taken at Gladstone a few years ago.
- barry (bloggy.com) (guest) 11-07-2005 7:37 pm
That's pretty funny how they're made. Like a cross between museum gift shop shwag and fake Guccis and Famiclones.
Also funny that he got shut down for a reason OTHER than some sort of copyright issue.
- paul (guest) 11-07-2005 8:41 pm
In the past, he's had copyright attacks from two artists: Sean Landers and Takashi Murakami. Big men pickin' on a little guy.
- tom moody 11-07-2005 9:09 pm
I remember being really pissed when this guy bootlegged Cory's Clouds and was selling them outside the Whitney. Until Cory said, " He's just doing exactly what I'm doing! I'm bootlegging the Mario Clouds" So, I realized the error of my ways. But Cory was a little pissed that Eric wouldn't give him a complimentary " Clouds" for free!!
Awesome.
Jamie
- Jamie (guest) 11-08-2005 2:40 am
damn, sounds like his recent troubles might be due to bad art-karma.
- paul (guest) 11-08-2005 7:15 am