Sayre Gomez. World

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Gomez's paintings show the places where economic precarity is at its most legible and visible. Fusing the visual techniques of artifice, illusionism, and trompe l'oeil, he mobilizes a contemporary dialectic of realism that makes economic destruction more real than the truth-value of the photographic image. (...) Gomez invites the viewer to a contest of discernment in which economic destruction can be recognized and the civic duty to distinguish truth from fiction might be reconstructed