SAYRE GOMEZ – WINDOWS AND MIRRORS
2011-12-05Debut exhibition in his Chicago gallery of new work from the Los Angeles based artist Sayre Gomez. On view are the artist’s new works on canvas, thirty small works on paper, and a single graphite drawing. By mining images and texts from various blogs and image archives, Gomez’ new works are an extension of the artist’s inquiry into how aesthetics inform perception and how meaning is disseminated and contextualized.
Selecting images on a solely formal criterion, Gomez states that he seeks “Images that imbue a sense of familiarity yet remain difficult to place, this begins to create a dialogue about an images’ legibility and thus the frameworks through which we use to digest them. Through the incessant re-constitution and re-experiencing of any number of said images, a lapse in their contextual foregrounding becomes apparent. They begin to resonate with viewers in variety of ways, and can begin to function more as abstractions… While the previous generation’s engagement with image culture was primarily through television and print media, the images being absorbed were contextually bound to their original sources implicating the process of appropriation as something definitively politicized. While these implications may still be present the appropriative process here is intended to be less political and more populous..”
Opposite – Lorem Ipsum Painting (Citations of Thirst), 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Kavi Gupta Berlin
Kluckstraße 31
10785
Berlin
