.22Bootleg.22 paintings Eric Doeringer

eric doeringer s bootleg stand @ geisai art fair in miami in 2007






reading eagle, april 13, 2008

eric doeringer s bootlegs small copies of work eminent contemporary artists including richard prince , lisa yuskavage. doeringer reproduces artworks using collage, digital photography, paint , varnish . doeringer can make between 6 , fifteen paintings each day , told new york times in 2005 interview process assembly line . on saturdays beginning in 2001, set vending table in chelsea, manhattan on west 24th street. small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined table. paintings original artists (sold within short walking distance doeringer s stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while doeringer s copies sold less $100. total profit in day of selling paintings has reached $1500. time out stated doeringer famous bootlegging art on streets of new york .

according doeringer, majority of artists copies not mind, while others have sent him cease-and-desist letters. richard prince fan of work, while takashi murakami put stop copies. doeringer states work fair use because culled pictures public domain of internet . in 2005, chelsea art dealer mike weiss called police remove doeringer s bootleg stand 24th street. weiss told new york times did reasons might condemned in art world made perfect sense businessman himself has pay huge rent , claimed doeringer opportunist , wants 15 minutes .

in 2007, doeringer sold wares in geisai art fair in miami. fair, crafted 42-cent stamps decorated pictures of celebrities. stamps, cost $1, legally usable postage , decorated photographs of eminent people in art world. on booth, doeringer placed orange , neon signs proclaimed best art deals in miami , nothing on $250! new york sun deemed decorations pitch-perfect metamockery of art fair s commercialism .