Biography

Sarah Gomez creates portraits that suggest domestic intimacy. Gomez views her works as the result of isolation, flooded by memories, nostalgia, and fabricated comfort in a new environment. The models for her portraits are her family members, close friends and partner. Relaxing within their newly settled home, inattentive of the gaze of the onlooker.

Gomez's paintings are rendered in collaged paper and runny brush strokes using dancing washes of purples, pinks, blues and yellows. The objects stand in importance with the subject, suggesting an emotional dependence between them. “I think about the objects that tether us to the people we once said goodbye to and how we use those objects to rebuild new homes, while in the pursuit of growth,” she explains. “They help us grieve past relationships and provide us with comfort in the creation of new ones.”

Born in 1999 in San Antonio, Sarah Gomez received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. She was the 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Horlock House History Museum and Gallery in Navasota. Her work was most recently featured in the solo exhibition Pink Blanket presented at the Horlock House, Navasota TX (2023) & Forrest and Virginia Green Mezzanine-Gallery, Richardson TX (2024), the group exhibition Queer-Ennial: A Story of Armor at the MACLA, San Jose CA (2023), and has shown several pieces across Dallas. Including the South Dallas Cultural Center, Latino Cultural Center, and Moody Performance Hall for ART214 & Hecho en Dallas, Dallas TX (2024). Gomez currently lives and works in Dallas.