May 4, 2012
fyi
The so-called "Art of John Lennon" exhibit and sale, this weekend at Gateway, is a -Milli & Vanilli- of the artworld. Yoko Ono and her business associates Pacific Edge Gallery are selling, for hundreds to thousands of dollars each, non-disclosed posthumously colorized and altered forgeries with a counterfeit John Lennon chop-mark/signatures in bogus editions as authentic works of visual art ie., lithographs and serigraphs.
The dead don't create art, much less sign and number.
This article perpetuates, with or without intent, the misconception that the original works of visual ie., lithographs and serigraphs that can only created by hand by the artist and excludes any mechanical and photomechanical processes can somehow be copies of other original works of visual art such as John Lennon's drawings.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
John Lennon's b&w drawings reproduced are b&w reproductions versus Yoko Ono's lackeys, such as Al Naclerio, cutting & pasting John Lennon's characters into new composition forgeries then misrepresenting those non-disclosed posthumous forgeries as John Lennon's art, artwork-, lithographs, serigraphs, etchings and woodcuts.
Yoko Ono has no shame and with articles like this, despite best intentions or not from this music critic, the unsuspecting public doesn't stand a chance.
Finally, Pacific Edge Gallery operates out of California. Under California Civil Code 1738 to 1745, if one sells a reproduction for $100 or more, one is required to call it a reproduction. Failure to do so may include, but not limited to: refund, interest, treble damages and $1,000 fine per occurrence.
Rhetorically, aside posthumous colorized and altered forgeries are not reproductions, much less of John Lennon's b&w drawings, does Pacific Edge Gallery disclose them as the -Reproductions of John Lennon- in California and not in exhibition in Utah or does the Pacific Edge Gallery misrepresent them as the -Art of John Lennon- in California and again in exhibitions in Utah?
Yoko Ono and Pacific Edge Gallery have no shame.
In closing, despite a month heads-up [with extensive documentation] on this fraud, Salt Lake Tribune and its' reporter David Burger still promoted these non-disclosed posthumous colorized and altered forgeries as the "art of John Lennon."
The Salt Lake City public, regrettably, is on their own.
Caveat Emptor!
Gary Arseneau
artist & creator of original lithographs
Fernandina Beach, Florida
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
This link to my published monograph further documents this fraud:
http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/200...non-fraud.html
This link to my published monograph documents this fraud and Pacific Edge Gallery's avarice:
http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/200...aud-at_15.html
This link below to ArtInfo documents that these contentious issues of authenticity do not operate in a vacuum:
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38...sham-drawings/
John Lennon’s art hangs at Utah’s Gateway center
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