Después del trabajo (after work)

Date2016

MediumMixed media on cardboard

DimensionsFramed: 47 x 40 1/2 in. (119.4 x 102.9 cm) Unframed: 41 x 36 in. (104.1 x 91.4 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment

Object number2017.10.1

Label TextJay Lynn Gomez was born in San Bernardino, California to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents who have since become US citizens. She attended the California Institute for the Arts for a short time before leaving to work as a live-in nanny with a West Hollywood family, an experience that greatly informed her subsequent interests and artistic practice. Gomez’s work is known for addressing issues of immigration and making visible the “invisible” labor forces that keep the pools, homes, and gardens of Los Angeles in such pristine condition. She is best known for placing life-size cardboard cut-outs of gardeners, nannies, and housekeepers on display in neighborhoods and parks around Beverly Hills, California in order to raise awareness of the real people they represent. By placing cardboard cut-outs in public areas, Gomez seems to be inviting us, even forcing us, to remember the hard-working people in our lives whose work we passively appreciate every day.

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On view

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