Made In China" Group Show Presented by Loakal

Opening Reception: November 8, 7-10 PM @ Ian Ross Gallery (466 Brannan St., San Francisco.)

The upcoming group exhibition, “Made in China,” presented by Loakal Gallery at Ian Ross Gallery, seeks to probe our society’s underlying assumptions regarding originality, intellectual property and the value of art. Curator Eddie Colla invited a group of established and emerging contemporary artists to create an original painting and send a photo of their work to a factory in China — a factory where reproductions of Monets and other masterworks are painted to be sold as kitschy home decorations in the West. The Chinese factory artists then reproduced the works based on the photographs and shipped them back to Ian Ross Gallery, where the original paintings and the Chinese “counterfeits” will be displayed side-by-side. 

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Many of the artists and the curator will be in attendance. RSVP on Facebook.