Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez

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• Publisher: Abrams
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781613129937
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Contemporary Art

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help—the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible—by inserting images of these workers into sly pastiches of iconic David Hockney paintings, subtly doctoring glossy magazine ads, and subversively slotting life-size painted cardboard cutouts into real-life situations. Domestic Scenes engages with Gomez and his work, offering an inspiring vision of the purposes and possibilities of art.

Works

After Hockney

David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967

No Splash (after David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967), 2013 (detail)

David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, 1966–1967

Beverly Hills Housekeeper (after David Hockney’s Beverly Hills Housewife, 1966), 2014

David Hockney, Portrait of Nick Wilder, 1966

Portrait of a Pool Cleaner (after David Hockney’s Portrait of Nick Wilder, 1966), 2014 (detail)

David Hockney, A Neat Lawn, 1966

The Maintenance of a Neat Lawn (after David Hockney’s A Neat Lawn, 1966), 2014 (detail)

David Hockney, A Lawn Sprinkler, 1967

The Lawn Maintenance (after David Hockney’s A Lawn Sprin...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• The Domestic Idylls of Ramiro Gomez
• Works
• Afterword: Imagination’s Flight
• List of Works
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright Page