Sayre Gomez
Sayre Gomez uses hyperreal painting techniques to address themes of representation and visuality in contemporary society. His paintings, sculptures, and videos adopt the visual vernacular of Los Angeles, drawing on the postmodern mashup of urban sprawl, car culture, mass media, and natural beauty inherent to the city. Gomez layers disparate visual references, including found images, cell phone photos, and video fragments, summing to a patchwork vision of mediated urban terrain. He shows Los Angeles as it is rarely depicted in popular imagery. Yet beyond this truth, Gomez’s practice explores how this city stands as a symbol for broader conditions in American society—stark and brutal inequality, widespread voyeuristic exposure, pervasive imaging technologies, and the disorienting collision of splendor and decline.
Sayre Gomez (b. 1982, Chicago, USA) holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin. Gomez’s works are held in the permanent collections of LACMA, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; mumok, Vienna; ICA, Miami; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turino; Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal; and Rubell Museum, Miami. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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The Medici.com, 2022
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Monument, 2022
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Halloween City, 2022
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Diamonds and Pearls, 2022
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Haunted Liquors, 2022
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Altima, 2022
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Mi Gente, 2022
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8,760,000 (3), 2022
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Totem, 2022
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Untitled, 2021
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Aloha, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Friday Night, 2021
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Orale Raza, 2019
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Palm Tower, 2019
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Buzz's Lavanderia, 2019
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Behind Door #5, 2018
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Behind Door #9, 2018
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Strong Winds Ahead
Curated by Lekha Jandhyala July 29 - September 9, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesStrong Winds Ahead is a group exhibition that extends a slow and outward escape. The escape begins in an exhausted city—the destination unclear. Encapsulating the middle space between life and...Read more -
Sayre Gomez
Halloween City February 19 - March 27, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesOver the past few years, Sayre Gomez has developed a body of work that amounts to a cognitive mapping of late America as seen through the cultural and topographic specificity...Read more -
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Apocalypse Porn September 10 - October 16, 2021 391 Grand St., New YorkFrançois Ghebaly is proud to present Sayre Gomez’s Apocalypse Porn , the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery and the first solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. Over...Read more -
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X-Scapes September 20 - November 3, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is proud to announce X-Scapes , Sayre Gomez’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. X-Scapes finds Sayre Gomez at the crossroads of image culture and urban reality in...Read more -
Bad Peach
Group Exhibition August 10 - September 7, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesKelly Akashi Sayre Gomez Haroon Mirza Davide Balula Channa Horwitz Cassi Namoda Dan Bayles Patrick Jackson Eli Ping Neïl Beloufa Christine Sun Kim Umar Rashid Meriem Bennani Mike Kuchar Kathleen...Read more -
Liquid Dreams
Group Exhibition July 13 - August 10, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesKelly Akashi Farah Atassi Davide Balula Genesis Belanger Neïl Beloufa Lila de Magalhaes Dorian Gaudin Sayre Gomez Patrick Jackson Koak Joel Kyack Mike Kuchar Candice Lin Gina Osterloh Philip Pearlstein...Read more -
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Déjà Vu October 14 - November 18, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is proud to announce Déjà Vu, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the Los Angeles-based artist Sayre Gomez. The show is accompanied by an exhibition publication with an...Read more -
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I’m Different October 10 - November 29, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is pleased to present I’m Different, Sayre Gomez’ first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition will consist of 4 distinct yet related bodies of work that are...Read more
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How Painter Sayre Gomez Captured the Polarized Heart of Los Angeles
Isimeme ‘Easy’ Otabor, GQ, February 29, 2024 -
Los Angeles Artist Sayre Gomez On the Pull of the City’s Forgotten Corners
Katie White, Artnet, February 27, 2024 -
Artist Sayre Gomez: ‘For me, it’s always a conversation between painting and photography
Janelle Zara, Financial Times, February 23, 2024 -
Sayre Gomez’s Hyperrealistic Paintings Capture the Grit of Urban L.A.
Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, February 19, 2024 -
Sayre Gomez: Renaissance Collection
Jake Romm, The Brooklyn Rail, September 1, 2022 -
Sayre Gomez Finds the Meaning Hidden in Plain Sight
Jori Finkel, Cultured, July 7, 2022 -
This Sayre Gomez sculpture is a monument to the worst habits of L.A.’s City Council
Carolina A. Miranda, The Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2022 -
Sayre Gomez' "Halloween City" is a Mastery in Intricacy
Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz, March 15, 2022 -
Review: Sayre Gomez paintings of L.A. are a sensational shambles
Christopher Knight, The Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2019 -
Sayre Gomez: X-Scapes
Patrick J. Reed, The Brooklyn Rail, October 1, 2019 -
Los Angeles Paints Itself
Kate Eringer, Artillery, September 26, 2019 -
Sayre Gomez “Déjà Vu” at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Mousse Magazine, October 10, 2017