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Jay Lynn Gomez — Installer 2
Jay Lynn Gomez

Installer 2

2020

Installer 2 presents a commanding sculptural presence that challenges the conventional boundaries between painting and three-dimensional form. Rendered in acrylic on cardboard and standing at an imposing 308.6 × 137.2 × 162.6 centimeters, this 2020 work by Jay Lynn Gomez transforms humble, utilitarian material into a monumental statement about labor, visibility, and the overlooked bodies that sustain the art world. The cardboard, typically discarded or treated as mere infrastructure, becomes here both subject and medium, drawing attention to its own conditions of production and circulation. Gomez's decision to work at this scale insists that the figure of the installer, so often rendered invisible within institutional spaces, occupy the room with undeniable authority. Gomez, whose practice engages deeply with questions of service economies, queer identity, and the politics of who gets to occupy cultural space, brings a charged conceptual framework to what might at first appear to be a formally playful gesture. The work invites collectors to reckon with its own material precarity and the social precarity it references, since cardboard connotes temporariness and disposability even as this sculpture commands monumental scale and careful craft. Signed by the artist, Installer 2 is offered through P.P.O.W and represents a significant opportunity to acquire a work that sits at the intersection of Arte Povera-inflected materiality and contemporary identity politics. Its unframed presentation is not an omission but an assertion, reinforcing the work's commitment to exposing rather than concealing its own structure.

Medium
Acrylic on cardboard
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Jay Lynn Gomez, Installer 2, 2020

Installer 2 presents a commanding sculptural presence that challenges the conventional boundaries between painting and three-dimensional form. Rendered in acrylic on cardboard and standing at an imposing 308.6 × 137.2 × 162.6 centimeters, this 2020 work by Jay Lynn Gomez transforms humble, utilitarian material into a monumental statement about labor, visibility, and the overlooked bodies that sustain the art world. The cardboard, typically discarded or treated as mere infrastructure, becomes here both subject and medium, drawing attention to its own conditions of production and circulation. Gomez's decision to work at this scale insists that the figure of the installer, so often rendered invisible within institutional spaces, occupy the room with undeniable authority. Gomez, whose practice engages deeply with questions of service economies, queer identity, and the politics of who gets to occupy cultural space, brings a charged conceptual framework to what might at first appear to be a formally playful gesture. The work invites collectors to reckon with its own material precarity and the social precarity it references, since cardboard connotes temporariness and disposability even as this sculpture commands monumental scale and careful craft. Signed by the artist, Installer 2 is offered through P.P.O.W and represents a significant opportunity to acquire a work that sits at the intersection of Arte Povera-inflected materiality and contemporary identity politics. Its unframed presentation is not an omission but an assertion, reinforcing the work's commitment to exposing rather than concealing its own structure.

Medium
Acrylic on cardboard
Dimensions
overall: 308.6 x 137.2 x 162.6 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
P.P.O.W

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