Ramiro Gomez, On 3rd Street (2020). Acrylic on stretched cardboard. 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy PPOW Gallery.
PPOW Gallery are showing this wonderful Ramiro Gomez painting in their Art Basel 2020 online viewing room.
West Hollywood artist Ramiro Gomez's paintings on cardboard powerfully evoke the predicament of America's Latinx workers, many of whom continue to work in the jobs other Americans don't want to do.
Only in his early thirties, the artist's practice usually involves being out and about, shopping, going to restaurants and bars, and visiting art museums, but, he says, 'always with an eye toward those maintaining everything.'
Gomez himself was a nanny for a Los Angeles family, while his father is a truck driver for Costco and his mother works as a janitor. The keenness of Gomez's social observation has been acknowledged in articles by publications including The New York Times Magazine, and through his addition to the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
