At precisely 7 p.m. on Friday, April 19, 2002, Track 16 Gallery will open its doors to a public preview of...
OI!
(the Original Invoice show)
...wherein one hundred works of art, most of it purchased in the early
90's by collector/gallery owner Tom Patchett, will be sold for exactly half the
amount he paid.
Original invoices will be exhibited alongside the works, to assure buyers
that prices are "as advertised." According to Patchett, "It's sort of a
'post-Enron, public trust idea.' Full financial disclosure is pretty rare
in the art world, so we thought we'd try it and see what happens. And
while these discounted prices are meant to help sell the work in a timely
manner, in no way are they meant to discredit the artists or their dealers.
Especially the artists."
Among the artists represented in the exhibition are: Altoon, Applebroog,
Baldessari, Burden, Borofsky, Duchamp, Eisenman, Kelley, Lachowicz, Lere,
Lichtenstein, Moses, Ocampo, Ono, Oppenheim, Prince, Ramos, Rosen, Man
Ray, Ruscha, Sherman, Skoglund, Sultan, Thiebaud, Vallance, Warhol, Wegman and
Zucker.
The show will run through April 28th, including Sundays.
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