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California Grey 1, Reagan Charles Cook
This is my first new painting in over a year, and the first since thing I’ve painted in Los Angeles. It’s the first panel in a triptych, and features an innovative application method involving liquid plastic cured at 1350 degrees by a heat gun.
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“Culture shapes and shifts as it moves. It influences perception. That is something that [painter David] Hockney has always involved himself with: perception, the ways of rendering something three-dimensional in two dimensions. With me, I’m very curious how [my] work can re-shape and re-form what people had previously seen as the California life.”
– Ramiro Gomez, a California native who went from nanny to artist
For Gomez, images of California by Hockney and other painters — as a place of chilled-out leisure — was something he wanted to upend. In his work, he wanted to show the manual labor that makes those luxurious environments possible, labor that he had once expended himself.
The artist will be in conversation with cultural journalist Lawrence Weschler at the Hammer Museum in Westwood on Thursday evening.
You can read more about Gomez’s journey and work in a Q&A with The Times’ Carolina A. Miranda.
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Odilon Redon, Profil de lumière (Profile of light), 1886 hammermuseum
Redon called his use of black the “agent of the spirit more than the splendid colors of the palette or the prism,” and his luminous, mysterious images continue to defy easy explanation, just as Redon and his fellow symbolists intended.* If the image is deemed mysterious then the viewer can interpret it as she likes… This looks like a reflection of my soul as I see the news coming out of Turkey this morning…
* Hammer Museum Gallery Label
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Dr Pozzi at Home (detail, 1881) - John Singer Sargent - The Armand Hammer Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
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