Knock Offs

Tomorrow night is the first Independent School of Art event that I'll be participating in. I hope to see everyone there!


The Independent School of Art (ISA) will hold a black market auction of high quality knock-offs of well-known artists' works. ISA will be staging an event titled the Black Market Auction. Artists selected for this show (which will include students from the school as well as over 75 local and national artists) will be producing high quality knock-offs of well-known local, national, and international artists' works. The participants were requested to knock-off works that they would like to own themselves or wish to see more readily available to others. During the two-day exhibition at the Hayes Valley Market, a 6000 square foot gallery in Hayes Valley run by Albert Herter and Lisa Rybovich Crallé, these works will be sold through silent and live auction at bargain prices. All artists (knockers-off) will receive 50% of the sale price when their work is sold. The works available for sale are not interpretations, parodies, or inspired by, but true replications. These knockoffs are designed to be 90% to 100% the quality of the original artworks in comparison. All public information regarding this event will list the original artists and the knock-off artists intermingled so that no one knows who knocked off whom. We are simply running a black market auction of great original works, by great artists, at great prices. In addition to magnanimously undermining the art market, your purchase will also generously help to support the ISA.