World 2 Christine Sun Kim MIT List Visual Arts Center

MIT List Visual Arts Center

Description

drawings on paper

New York (2013)

All Day and All Night are companion lithographs created in dialogue with Christine Sun Kim’s landmark survey exhibition at the Whitney Museum

World 2 Christine Sun Kim MIT List Visual Arts CenterDescription World 2 is an edition based on a painting (2019) of the same name. In World 2, a bright blue sky is the backdrop for a weathered billboard and the pigeons perched up on the power lines behind. Gomez uses hyperreal painting techniques to address themes of representation and visuality. His paintings, sculptures, and videos adopt the visual vernacular of Los Angeles, drawing on the postmodern mashup of urban sprawl, car culture, and natural