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a naturalized citizen of the United States, he has created 31 murals in
Washington, DC, Michigan, Florida, and New Mexico. Despite the often temporary nature of outdoor artwork, much of his early work can still be found in highly visible places in Bogotá, New York City, Washington D.C., Daytona Beach, DeLand, Port Orange, Miami, Midland, Lubbock, Santa Fe, and Orlando. In Central America his work is found in private collections in Panama and Mexico. Prior to his move to the U.S., Gómez Gómez was well established as a prominent artist in South America and his works can be found in many private and public places there.
376:) as well as a number of letters to the editor, caused the State Attorney's Office to re-examine their position on this matter and the result came in the form of a draft of new legislation bearing directly on the offices of The State of Florida concerning censorship. It had little effect as regards the display of Gómez Gómez paintings, however. They were moved to an unspecified location in the County Courthouse building said by representatives of the State Attorney's office to be a "very public location," though they were not restored to their original position in the main exhibition space.
367:, in which the artist copied his six-year-old nephew's drawing of a doll, a sun and a cat into the background to represent a child's imagination. This image was subsequently interpreted as an (anatomically correct) little red devil by members of the Florida State Attorney's office — instead of the innocent child's drawing that was intended by the artist. As part of a decision by a Volusia County Manager, the paintings were removed from the main exhibition space immediately.
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though they clearly belong to disparate time frames. In some canvases, subtly impossible points of view (which are ostensibly suggested to occupy three dimensions) are inserted into standard layouts of vanishing line perspective — in the same picture plane — in ways that can at once be convincingly real, albeit vaguely unsettling.
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of Bogotá, painted in 1987 (subsequently restored by the artist in 2013). In 1981, Gómez Gómez returned to Bogotá where he accepted positions as
Professor of Art History and fine art drawing for CIDCA (a regional college in Bogotá) for twelve years. Concurrently, he conducted classes and workshops at
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Colombia. His art can also be found in private collections throughout the European capitals of Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy. His signature style depicts people, figures, and daily life. His works often address spiritual, social,
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Gómez Gómez found himself at odds with the public opinion, taste and morés of
Central Florida at the beginning of the new millennium. His work was censured, and for a time, effectively censored due to the perception by certain Florida State Attorney's Office employees that two paintings commissioned
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I marveled at my mother's perceptions of the world around her. For her, in her manic phases; past, present and future occupied the same mental space. Her passionate proclamations were focused, awful, beautiful, overwhelming. To bring to any piece of work that compelling sense of clarity, certainty
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Gómez Gómez's style is often realistic with regards to the objects and people in his paintings, but often mix present, past and future in one painting. His work often depicts physical relationships between objects, people, buildings, and landscape to be inclusive of one another, or side by side,
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Gómez Gómez's first exhibition took place in 1979 at
Casacoima in Guanare, capital of Portuguesa State in Venezuela in a group show along with other artists from the region. From 1975 to 1981, Gómez Gómez found work in Bogotá and in Venezuela as a freelance designer, typographer, illustrator and
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Gómez Gómez's work often typifies self-contradictory reference to the key subject matter; for example, the father referred to in a title may appear in the painting as a baby boy while his children are painted as elderly and doddering, or an otherwise sober and traditional
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A mural in five panels by Alberto Gómez Gómez. 2005. acrylic on board. 180" X 48"
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