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Eric Doeringer is a close friend of mine and an accomplished, prolific artist whose work has been widely reviewed, exhibited and collected worldwide. He and his wife, Cathay have been talking about leaving New York for a while, but the pandemic pushed them to take action. It was quite a ride but now that they've settled into a nice warm home in a sunny location... and a yard...well you know how it goes. Good things don't come easy tho. Check out Eric's work HERE: https://www.ericdoeringer.com/ \n\n Eric Doeringer Bio (excerpted from Wikipedia-read in full HERE.) :\xa0(born July 1, 1974]\xa0is an artist currently living and working in\xa0Brooklyn,\xa0New York. He graduated from\xa0Brown University\xa0in 1996 with a\xa0B.A.[2]\xa0and received an\xa0MFA\xa0from the\xa0School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\xa0in 1999.[3]\xa0Doeringer is on the faculty at Manhattan's\xa0School of Visual Arts.\nEric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including\xa0Richard Prince\xa0and\xa0Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks using "collage, digital photography, paint and varnish".[5]\xa0Doeringer can make between six and fifteen paintings each day and told\xa0The New York Times\xa0in a 2005 interview that his process is "like an assembly line".[6]\xa0On Saturdays beginning in 2001, he set up a vending table in\xa0Chelsea, Manhattan\xa0on West 24th Street. Small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined the table. Paintings by the original artists (sold within a short walking distance from Doeringer's stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while Doeringer's copies sold for less than $100. His total profit in a day of selling paintings has sometimes reached $1500.[\xa0Time Out\xa0stated that Doeringer is "famous for bootlegging art on the streets of New York".[7]\nConceptual art recreations In 2008, Doeringer began making larger, more faithful recreations of works of\xa0Conceptual art\xa0by artists like\xa0Sol LeWitt,\xa0Lawrence Weiner,\xa0Edward Ruscha, and\xa0On Kawara.\xa0New York\xa0magazine called a 2009 exhibition of Doeringer's\xa0Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings\xa0"perfectly executed" and "a genuine aesthetic experience, not just a knowing scold."\nIn 2012,\xa0The New York Times\xa0art critic\xa0Ken Johnson\xa0reviewed Doeringer's solo exhibition at the Mulherin + Pollard gallery titled "The Rematerialization of the Art Object". In the front room, Doeringer displayed "well-made simulations" of\xa0Damien Hirst's spot paintings and\xa0Richard Prince's\xa0Marlboro\xa0cowboy advertisements. In the back room, Doeringer presented imitations of three artists:\xa0Edward Ruscha\xa0(counterfeit books),\xa0Charles Ray\xa0photographs of himself wearing various clothes in imitation of Ray's\xa0All My Clothes), and\xa0Andy Warhol\xa0(a film mimicking Warhol's\xa0Empire\xa0by recording the\xa0Empire State Building). Johnson wrote that Doeringer's "distinction is his focus not on canonical works of Modernism but on famous Conceptualist pieces that are themselves art about art".\xa0In 2013, the\xa0Toronto Star's Murray Whyte reviewed Doeringer's\xa0Survey, "a series of his exacting knock-offs of the late 20th century's greatest art hits". In addition to containing imitations of works by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition also contained imitations of\xa0Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and\xa0Lawrence Weiner's spray paintings. Art critic Murray Whyte wrote that Doeringer is "less heretic than prophet, putting the towering genius of a previous generation to its own test".