P·P·O·W is pleased to present a one-person booth of new sculptures and works on paper by Ramiro Gomez. Born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California to undocumented Mexican immigrants who have since become US citizens, Gomez briefly attended the California Institute for the Arts before leaving to work as a live-in nanny with a West Hollywood family. Informed by his childhood and subsequent time working in the Hollywood Hills, Gomez has since garnered critical acclaim for his work addressing issues of immigration and class division.

Developing this series further, Gomez turns his eye toward not only representations of labor but representations of internal fantasies, dreams, and expressions of the self. Portraying his figures as talented and necessary, Gomez unlocks powerful narrative possibilities that are usually suppressed in visual culture. Presented alongside life-size cardboard sculptures of people who construct and maintain an annual art fair, this presentation exposes the ontology of eraser whichs pervades the commercial art world. Now that his own work can be found in prominent collections and upscale magazines, Gomez has been compelled to acknowledge how he and his art are elevated by a capitalist system built on expunging the workforce that maintains it.