Sayre Gomez’s Closed Forever presents a selection of large-scale paintings and sculptures from the past five years, offering a focused view of the Los Angeles-based artist’s engagement with the urban landscape and the decline of late capitalism.

Working across both airbrushed canvases and finely detailed three-dimensional works, Gomez considers how hope and disappointment intertwine with the everyday. His work maps a terrain where the poetic and the political continually resurface in the most ordinary scenes: the strip mall, the convenience store, the storefront window.

Drawing from sites marked by abandonment and neglect, Gomez calls attention to the fragile and unstable realities created by late-capitalist systems. His work reveals the social and economic forces shaping contemporary life, registering the health of our society through its ruins—while also exposing the aesthetics of manufactured joy and happiness, packaged for consumption. In his hands, Los Angeles unfolds as a layered archive of aspiration, erosion, and collapse: a place where the promise of fulfillment coexists with material decay. These conditions are echoed in urban and rural communities across the United States, challenging the myth of the “American Dream.”