When a press release went out from 1 “Harry Gablowsian,” hundreds of pop lovers RSVP’d for the new gallery’s opening reception: “Justin Bieber: Paintings From Space.” The artist was promised to be current. Even though most in the art globe conveniently observed via the ruse—Harry Gablowsian, of training course, is a engage in on the world’s preeminent mega-supplier Larry Gagosian—the exhibition built headlines in the New York Post’s Web site Six, which outed the venture as a hoax, and even prompted a cease-and-desist letter from Bieber’s attorneys. Now, Artnet Information can completely reveal that the “Justin Bieber” paintings are essentially the work of Brooklyn artist Brian Whiteley, founder of the Satellite…