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Ramiro Gomez
born San Bernardino, California 1986
All About Family
2014
acrylic on pigment inkjet on paper
Gomez's print renders visible the domestic laborers who are an integral part of this country's service economy. All About Family is part of a series in which Gomez reprints at an enlarged scale appropriated images from home décor magazines. He then paints into these affluent settings the workers whose labor makes possible such scenes of domestic perfection and tranquility. His interventions often turn on the pointed relationship between the text and the presence of his inserted domestic workers.
Museum purchase through the Lichtenberg Family Foundation, 2020.7 |