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Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present Cut-Outs – a room-sized installation of cardboard cut-outs by Ramiro Gomez.

Created as a culmination to his October 2014 residency at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ramiro Gomez has created an immersive installation of cardboard settings and figures. Gomez’s life-sized cardboard figures make visible the “invisible,” the predominantly Hispanic workforce of affluent areas of Los Angeles. His subjects are the nannies, gardeners, housekeepers: the people behind our images of luxury. This work has previously shown at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Mana Contemporary Chicago, as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival 2015.

Ramiro Gomez was born to immigrant parents in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, east of Los Angeles. After leaving the California Institute of the Arts, Gomez worked as a live-in nanny with a Beverly Hills family, where he keenly observed the relationships between heads of households and their staff. Gomez found the dynamic between family and staff to be paradoxical – at once intimate, trusting and close, but also prone to abrupt dissolution for various reasons. His experiences there are the impetus for his work.

Ramiro Gomez was born in 1986 in San Bernardino, CA. His work is in the collections of the MCASD, OCMA, Crocker Art Museum, and Fundacion Televisa. In 2013 Gomez had a solo exhibition @ the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and was an artist-in-residence at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA. He has given lectures at Stanford University, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. The City of West Hollywood, CA awarded Gomez with a residency in 2013, where he installed a mural in West Hollywood Park – a project titled The Caretakers, which remains on view. His work has been covered in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and CNN. Gomez lives and works in West Hollywood, CA.

Ramiro Gomez will have his second full-scale solo show with the gallery in April 2016, in conjunction with the release of a monograph by Lawrence Weschler with Abrams Books. RAMIRO GOMEZ CUT-OUTS

Cut-outs, installation at CJG, Dec. 2015 RAMIRO GOMEZ CUT-OUTS

Ramiro Gomez (b. 1986, U.S.) 2013 Aqua Art Miami, Charlie James Gallery, Aqua West Hollywood, CA. Hotel, FL 2013 Art San Diego, Charlie James Gallery, Balboa Park, SD Solo Exhibitions 2013 T.J. Martell Foundation Artworks for the Cure 2015 Cut-Outs, University of Michigan Institute for Barker Hangar, CA the Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI 2013 AFL-CIO National Convention, CA 2014 Domestic Scenes, Charlie James Gallery 2013 Divested Interest, CSUF Grand Central Los Angeles, CA Art Center, CA 2013 Luxury, Interrupted, UCLA Chicano Studies 2012 Meet Me At Metro, East LA Civic Center, CA Research Center, CA 2012 Install: WEHO, West Hollywood Library, CA 2012 Rose Gardens, Pehrspace, CA 2012 L.A. Road Concert: Mulholland Dr., CA 2012 Global Cardboard Challenge, Imagination Foundation, CA Group Exhibitions 2011 L.A. Road Concert: Sunset Blvd., CA 2015 Ha Ha! Business! Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los 2011 Group show, Bang Gallery. CA Angeles, CA 2015 Paris Photo Los Angeles, Charlie James Gallery, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, CA Bibliography 2015 Zona Maco, Charlie James Gallery, Mexico City Lawrence Weschler, “Ramiro Gomez’s Domestic Mexico Disturbances”, New York Times, August 15, 2015 2014 PULSE Miami Beach, Charlie James Gallery, Miami, FL Daina Beth Solomon “Ramiro Gomez: An Artist helping 2014 EXPO CHGO, Charlie James Gallery, Chicago, IL Angelenos appreciate the people who work for us” L.A. 2014 ArtMRKT San Francisco, Charlie James Gallery, Weekly, May 14th, 2014 (also available online) Fort Mason Center, CA 2014 Recent Acquisitions, Cornell Fine Arts Museum Lyle Zimskind “Framed: Ramiro Gomez maintains a at Rollins College, FL different image of Contemporary Art” L.A. Magazine, May 2014 L.A. Weekly presents: Artopia, Grand Central 2nd, 2014 (online) Market Los Angeles, CA 2014 Museum of Latin American Art presents: Leah Ollman “Review: Rendering the invisible visible” Distant Parallels, The Collaborative, CA Los Angeles Times, January 16th, 2014 (also available 2014 Secrets & Lies, Museum of Contemporary Art online) San Diego, CA 2014 Dallas Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Anuradha Vikram “Ramiro Gomez: Domestic Scenes at Fashion Industry Gallery, TX Charlie James Gallery” Dailyserving, February 4th, 2014 2014 (in)Visible & (dis)Embodied, District of (online) Columbia Arts Center, Washington D.C. 2014 Prospect 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art San Chuong-Đài Võ “Review: Ramiro Gomez, Domestic Scenes Diego, CA at Charlie James Gallery” Artvoices, March 2014 (also available online) RAMIRO GOMEZ CUT-OUTS

Congregation Kol Ami, CA Kinsey Lane Sullivan “Striking images reveal what it 2013 Guest Lecturer, AFL-CIO National Convention, really takes to live a life of luxury” Policymic, January Los Angeles Convention Center, CA 3rd, 2014 (online) 2013 Guest Lecturer, UCLA 2013 Guest Lecturer. Stanford University Hrag Vartanian “The people behind your images of luxury” 2013 Guest Lecturer, “Aqui se respira lucha” UC San Hyperallergic, December 18th, 2013 (online) Diego 2012 Guest Lecturer, Race Matters Series David Montgomery “Protest artist’s cardboard cutouts draw “Quiet is the new loud” UC Santa Barbara attention to immigration issue” 2012 Guest Lecturer. “Sing the real” UC Santa The Washington Post, February 14th, 2013 (also available Barbara online) Residencies Brian De Los Santos ”Artist works to keep Immigrants in 2013 City of West Hollywood Park the picture” NPR, February 14th, 2013 (online) 2013 Artist-in-residence CSUF Grand Central Art Center, CA Esmeralda Bermudez “Artist pays homage to L.A.’s unseen workers” Los Angeles Times, cover, Mural June 4th 2012 (also available online) 2013 The Caretakers/Los Cuidadores City of West Hollywood Park, CA Sarah Goodyear “An L.A. Artist makes Immigrant workers impossible to ignore” The Atlantic Cities, Awards July 12th, 2012 (online) 2014 L.A. Weekly People 2014 2013 25 Artists to Watch, Artvoices Magazine Natalie Brunell “Artist colors Hollywood Hills with 2013 100 Green Leaders in Art, Poder Magazine figures of overlooked Immigrant workers” CNN July 7th, 2012 (online) Selected Collections 2014 Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach Andrea Long-Chavez “ Public Artist affirms the ‘Human 2014 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Statement’ of Hollywood Hills gardeners, housekeepers” 2014 Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College The Huffington Post February 29th, 2012 (online)

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