Essay by Thomas Lawson
The Ranch is pleased to announce Jack Goldstein | Sayre Gomez, a two-person exhibition exploring the intergenerational connections between the pair. Goldstein moved to Los Angeles from Montreal and attended Fairfax High School before studying at the Chouinard Art Institute in the late 1960s and in 1970 was in the first class at CalArts, where Gomez later received his MFA in 2008 after migrating from Chicago. Though generations apart, both artists participate in an aesthetic lineage premised on resonant iconography as the source material for photorealistic and para-fictional artworks; both assert painting's capacity to carry conceptual and semiotic weight while still exploring possibilities of other media; both aspire to a refined, sleek painterly surface through material mastery––in Goldstein's words: "presentation is everything." In Gomez's case, his meticulously executed airbrush paintings further push the medium into another domain, simulating the finish of film and digital photography––a pursuit presaged by Goldstein and his peers. This show presents painting and sculpture by Gomez, including new work created site specifically for The Ranch, alongside examples which span Goldstein's multi-media output selected by Gomez. In so doing, Gomez has reckoned with the complexities of citation and archival revival. Through researching Goldstein's practice, Gomez was able to track down and include an original c-print by Margaret Bourke-White of the bombing of Moscow during World War II, an image Goldstein appropriated for one of his most iconic large-scale paintings.
- The Ranch, 2024
- Softcover, 112 pages
- Signed by Sayre Gomez
- Edition of 500
- 9 x 7 inches
