Images from a 'stolen' art gallery

A group of local artists is challenging the boundaries of copyright law with an East Boston exhibition that promises to be full of second-hand ideas, pilfered motifs, and outright thievery. Here are some images from the exhibition, which is running from Jan. 6 - Jan. 22 at the Atlantic Works Gallery. At left, Mitchel Ahern's 'Furben (256 Furbies)' is a visual and verbal pun on German painter Gerhard Richter's '256 Colors.' Rather than just use flat, enamel paint for each of his 256 blocks of color, as Richter did in his 1974 work, Ahern incorporated linocut images of the briefly popular Furby stuffed toys into each block.
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A group of local artists is challenging the boundaries of copyright law with an East Boston exhibition that promises to be full of second-hand ideas, pilfered motifs, and outright thievery.

Here are some images from the exhibition, which is running from Jan. 6 - Jan. 22 at the Atlantic Works Gallery.

At left, Mitchel Ahern's "Furben (256 Furbies)" is a visual and verbal pun on German painter Gerhard Richter's "256 Colors." Rather than just use flat, enamel paint for each of his 256 blocks of color, as Richter did in his 1974 work, Ahern incorporated linocut images of the briefly popular Furby stuffed toys into each block.