RAMIRO GOMEZ'S "ALL ABOUT FAMILY" (2014)
ACQUIRED BY THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Charlie James Gallery:
The gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ramiro Gomez's "All About Family" by the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Museum purchase through the Lichtenberg Family Foundation. Originally executed in 2014, "All About Family" comes from a series of seventeen large-scale magazine pieces that Ramiro made in 2014-2015. For this body of work Ramiro would collect the magazine pages he wished to interrupt and work with MILK Studios, Hollywood to scan, enlarge, and print the magazine ads archivally and at scale. When the prints were completed Ramiro painted his domestic figures into the magazine scenes. No magazine images were ever used more than once in the series, all are unique pieces.
The gallery wishes to thank Jim and Julie Taylor for their generous and longstanding support of Ramiro and his work, and for their willingness to make this piece available to the Smithsonian - without their enthusiastic cooperation this wouldn't have happened. We also wish to thank E. Carmen Ramos from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, who has followed Ramiro's career for many years and was instrumental in making this acquisition happen.
Congratulations Ramiro!
