Eric Trich/”Dallas Art-, er, Terrorist Siros” Post Script, et finis
someone sent me some images from Trich’s latest mailing extravaganza. Wake up and smell the, uh, genius.
“Mentored by Siros.
Inspired by Caravaggio.
Collected by Art Lovers.”
Seriously? Are these people even from Earth? It’s like “Coneheads Conquer the Artworld”.
Hey – collectors only, ok? Lookie-loos, stay home!
A press release states: “The exhibit will feature paintings and sculptures on loan from the collections of Bill and Heather Esping, Brad Johnson, Mark Murphy, R. Keith Nordin, H.I.H. Princess Sarvenaz Pahlavi and Jeff and Jan Rich, as well as the private collection of SGA Enterprises and a private collection in London.” Despite any royal titles, these alleged Trich owners all seem to live in Dallas.
Beware, pseudo-art buying public. I get thankful emails from people who keep encountering Siros, and instead of just listening to his own estimation of his and Trich’s lofty art world standing, they look online, and find only these woeful stories (Siros did say I’m costing him millions.) What happened with these other people remains a mystery. You can fool some of the people some of the time…a fool and his money…a sucker born every minute…etc. Are they aware of their use as fluffers in Siros’ Madoff-ian ponzi scheme?
Maybe, as incredible as it may seem, they just liked his art, in which case, what can you say? Carry on. Enjoy.
Hey Eric, here’s a perfect Caravaggio for your tutelage, right there in Fort Worth. But he must know this. Suddenly, the “inspiration” is so clear!
In the press materials I’m told are blanketing Dallas, there are also some full-page testimonials by other satisfied Trich collectors. Never seen that before, but ok. One of them is from Kevin Shook, who had signed the letters threatening to sue me before as “president” of SGA Enterprises (New York, Los Angeles, Dallas) and London-Tokyo Investment Group (the empire needed to be global.) These are the front “companies” concocted to push Trich, and now the largest purported “collectors” of his art in their own press materials. I get the impression he is Siros’ main (only?) co-conspirator in the dissemination of Trich’s product. What a reputable, independent recommendation…
But SGA is movin’ on up. Their address used to just be in a run down apartment complex in Uptown Dallas. Now they share a suite in the upscale Highland Park Village shopping mall with any number of other hazy, acronymed companies, doubtless without signs on the door. I love Google.
Shook has a profile on Rebuild the Party.com (how am I not surprised he’s a Bush-ite? Oops – its down now, two weeks later), and had some criticism for a Frontline report on Iran (homeland of Siros, and one wonders, Shook?) It also reveals that the “International Canadian Academy – Kobe, Japan”, among his 2 educational credentials – listed above his blurb, one presumes, to impress upon us his art authority – is a grade school. This short CV doesn’t include a law degree, so it’s even less clear why he was chosen to act as the muscle behind the legal-ese-y letter speciously threatening to sue me before (signing it “K.R. Shook,” which really does sound scarier than Kevin.)
Hey Kevin – what about my freedom of expression? You and Siros didn’t seem to find it all that precious…
Another page comes from Nancy Harte, whose only presence online is a series of new age/astrology/wicca/kabbalah Dallas-area-hook-up webpages – including one devoted to Ken Wilber, of course. Says Harte: “As for the young Eric, I saw that twinkle in his Irish eyes. I was frozen by his natural talent, raw passion, the combination of realism with pop and the bolt of energy in his work…One can’t help but just to be amazed by his intellect and innate talent played across his canvases with confident sporadic placed instinct.”
Huh-wha?
They’re all obviously having a good time together in this art star fantasy (with shows to date at a community college, a branch library, a golf charity auction, and a church). Whatever. Go crazy. I’m sorry I burst the party bubble, but it seems tenaciously able to regenerate itself.
Good luck with the glossy mailers and death threats, Siros. How is all that workin for ya?
A New Romantic Siros, in earlier glamtastic, Warhol-thefting days. Click image for link to the image source, his website, now many months "under construction."
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