"Sayre Gomez has become recognized as one of contemporary art's keenest observers of American urban life. His latest exhibition of large-scale photorealistic paintings, meticulously realized sculptures, and new explorations into video and wall painting reveal an evolving, deeply considered engagement with the sprawling landscape of Los Angeles. His work is critical, romantic, precise, doubting, and hopeful-questioning authenticity, memory, and how we see and interpret history in the present tense."
"Presenting the fullest expression of Gomez's vision to date, the exhibition brings together themes the artist has explored throughout his practice: the fetishization of youth and nostalgia as a response to mortality, the communication systems-both macro and micro-that define contemporary life, and the ways our built environment provides clues as to what we value as individuals and as a society."
"Gomez's paintings depict Los Angeles through composite images, combining what he calls a "documentary impulse" with sophisticated formal construction. Found imagery, cell phone photos, and stock photography are merged using techniques he has honed over years-an amalgamation of commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting, manual sign painting traditions, and digital tools-revealing a highly sensitive mind attuned to the codes by which civilization both reveals and obscures its intentions."
Precious Moments is an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and videos by Sayre Gomez spanning three gallery spaces in Los Angeles through March 1, 2026. The exhibition presents large-scale photorealistic paintings, meticulously realized sculptures, video work, and wall painting that engage the sprawling Los Angeles landscape. Gomez examines authenticity, memory, nostalgia, the fetishization of youth, and how late capitalism's visual language shapes perception, including his children's encounters. His paintings use composite imagery—found photos, cell phone images, and stock photography—combined with commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting, manual sign painting traditions, analog reproduction, and digital tools to reveal cultural codes.
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