Description

World 2 is an edition based on a painting (2019) of the same name.

In World 2, a bright blue sky is the backdrop for a weathered billboard and the pigeons perched up on the power lines behind.

Gomez uses hyperreal painting techniques to address themes of representation and visuality. His paintings, sculptures, and videos adopt the visual vernacular of Los Angeles, drawing on the postmodern mashup of urban sprawl, car culture, and natural beauty inherent to contemporary L.A.
 

About the artist

Sayre Gomez (b. 1982 , Chicago, US) holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Broad, Los Angeles; the Peréz Art Museum, Miami; the mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; among others. Sayre Gomez lives and works in Los Angeles, California.