Check out New York artist Charles Lutz. He's incredibly talented and he's got what it takes to make it big. Just give him a little more time and I guarantee you'll be hearing his name a lot more.

Lutz went to Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and, upon graduating, landed a job as one of Jeff Koons studio assistants. For those who don't know, by studio assistant, I mean painter. It's well known that Koons doesn't paint or make any of his own work, relying on the talents of artists like Charles to paint for him. The level of skill these guys and gals have is quite astonishing, which you know if you've ever seen any of Koons paintings. The details, the colors, and the precision looks more like the work of a machine rather than a human.

Charles Lutz is a New York based artist whose work has been exhibited through out the United States and abroad. Lutz's works deal with the very nature of the current economic, social, and art markets at the time of their creation. The works are a visual record of the current time. Lutz addresses issues like commerce, luxury, greed, lust, as well as the contemporary art market through painstaking techniques, utilizing a thrift and sensibility that only a midwest upbringing could have afforded him.

Make sure to check out his paintings, his sculpture, and his editions.

Don't forget to check out his Warhol Denied project, where he recreates to the tee many of Warhol's paintings.

The Denial and Acceptance series explores issues of authorship, originality, authenticity, as well as art commerce through the work of the most important artist of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol. Inspired by the recent turmoil created when The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board rejected authenticity of an important Warhol Self-Portrait owned by film producer Joe Simon.

"There is no such thing as an authentic Warhol," by Warhol's former studio manager Paul Morrissey and former painting assistant Ronnie Cutrone's point that, "Andy rarely got involved. He had an ability to let go and say 'you do it'. It was easy to rip off his paintings and sign for them."

Lutz asks,"What does an "Authentic" Warhol look like?" Read all about it here. If you want to get one for yourself, they're for sale, and he's also doing Warholesque portraits upon request.