Lori Earley masterpiece stolen. Right off the wall!
If you see this snowy picture hanging on your new friend’s wall, watch out: you’re hanging out with an art thief! Someone had the gall to swipe this drawing, part Lori Earley’s Fade to Gray Exhibition, right off the wall at her solo show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC last Wednesday.
If you do happen to see it, feel free to swipe it back and make a daring escape. There’s a reward being offered for its return, but I know that any Coilhouse reader would return it simply out of the goodness of their heart. The painting wants to be reunited with its sister creations on walls of the gallery space:
Even if you don’t find the painting, you should stop by the gallery, which has been completely transformed to provide the right atmosphere for Earley’s work, on display until March 22. The ghostly paintings, in their intricate china-white frames, hang on walls which have been covered by white damask-motif flocked wallpaper designed by Lori herself. You can see the transformed interior, along with all of the images in the exhibition, on the gallery site.
March 6th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I heard about this…whoever did it is a royal douche.
This series of b/w paints n’ frames is da shit!
March 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I’d read about it in Audrey Kawasaki’s blog…it’s good to see the word out. This SHOULD make the work harder to sell on legit markets…but from the sound of how the guy stole it and the fact he’s suspected in stealing other work it could take some time.
If you’re gonna steal art…steal a masterwork in an elaborate Hollywood movie like scenario dammit…not just a basic smash & grab. Telling ya it’s getting harder and harder to find proper villains these days.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
uncultured heathen! when caught they should be drawn and quartered! that is the price to pay for a crime against art.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
“If you’re gonna steal art…steal a masterwork in an elaborate Hollywood movie like scenario dammit…not just a basic smash & grab. Telling ya it’s getting harder and harder to find proper villains these days.”
Haha…no high wire act, no glass cutter, no calling card…more appropriate to call them a PEDESTRIAN douche. Maybe it was a meth monkey needing meth money :o
March 8th, 2008 at 12:58 am
When people steal art, they rob the whole world.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
This is heartbreaking to hear. Recently I visited an art gallery in Berlin and I saw that a couple of small artworks had also been stolen (they were replaced by pieces of paper that said ‘stolen’ on them). It really makes me lose my faith in humanity.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:18 am
This art is no good anyway, I would have just given it to him/her.