Sayre Gomez

$70.00 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Hyperrealistic, mesmerizing Los Angeles landscapes that highlight the city’s beauty and allure alongside its urban decay and materialism Sayre Gomez (born 1982) is known for his semi-fictionalized and photorealistic paintings depicting his hometown of Los Angeles. At once beautiful and dystopian, the paintings utilize different techniques such as airbrushing and stenciling, similar to those used to paint Hollywood movie sets. Various signifiers are quintessentially Southern Californian, such as the strip…