SAYRE GOMEZ: PRECIOUS MOMENTS
DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY is pleased to present Precious Moments, an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and videos by Sayre Gomez.
January 16 - March 1, 2026
Sayre Gomez has become recognized as one of contemporary art’s keenest observers of American urban life. His latest exhibition of large-scale photorealistic paintings, meticulously realized sculptures, and new explorations into video and wall painting reveal an evolving, deeply considered engagement with the sprawling landscape of Los Angeles.
The exhibition brings together themes the artist has explored throughout his practice: the fetishization of youth and nostalgia as a response to mortality, the communication systems that define contemporary life, and the ways our built environment provides clues as to what we value as individuals and as a society.
Gomez’s paintings depict Los Angeles through composite images, combining what he calls a “documentary impulse” with sophisticated formal construction. Found imagery, cell phone photos, and stock photography are merged using techniques he has honed over years—an amalgamation of commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting, manual sign painting traditions, and digital tools—revealing a highly sensitive mind attuned to the codes by which civilization both reveals and obscures its intentions.
Gomez’s sculptures focus on singular architectural forms that could be a protagonist drawn directly from one of his paintings. These three-dimensional works translate visually complex, monumental structures into reduced scales that allow them to occupy an intimate spatial relationship with the viewer. Rendered with exacting precision, these once-overlooked structures are elevated into objects that invite reverence and sustained contemplation.
Through paintings that trace the layered histories of the urban landscape and sculptures that bring overlooked structures into focus, the exhibition offers a sustained meditation on how time is marked, meaning is produced, and the conditions of contemporary American life are understood, shaped by an ongoing effort to consider both the world that formed the artist and the one he now inhabits.