Sayre Gomez
Untitled
Lot closes
June 7, 03:19:30 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Starting Bid
15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sayre Gomez
b. 1982
Untitled
Executed in 2025.
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist
Sayre Gomez (b. 1982, Chicago, IL; lives in Los Angeles, CA) cites the landscape and idiosyncrasies of Los Angeles in his photorealistic paintings. Using trompe l’oeil, digital effects, and found imagery, his work highlights the uncanny and surreal aspects of contemporary urban life. This hyperrealistic painting simulates the surface of a varnished wood panel, playfully adorned with childlike scribblings and a faded happy-face sticker. Gomez’s work was recently on view at the MCA in The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020 (2024–25). Other recent exhibitions include presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands; Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; Gallerie Nazionali, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. His work is in numerous permanent collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.