#los angeles art
VHS clips of a shoot I had last week! Gonna post more of these!
Some landscape photos I’ve taken around Los Angeles
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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