Gerard Gomez

Color leaps off Gerard Gomez's canvas, grabbing the attention of the viewer. Orange, yellow, red, purple, and blue elbow each other for space in the artist's paintings.  They wrestle together as a rainbow of zeal.  Yet, because Gomez smartly uses sheer, luminous paints and delineates firm boundaries, the colors never collide into a messy slush.

The paintings are cheerfully vibrant in their color scheme, and the subject matter resonates within the soul of the viewer.  Typically scenes of homes and residential landscape, the paintings are familiar territory that calls to the human need for comfort and security of surroundings.  Other works deal with an almost tribal rendering of faces and bodies.  Gomez paints elongated faces or masks, as well as rudimentary line drawings and cut outs of bodies.  Even his abstract paintings have a personal eminence to them by imparting the spirituality of stained-glass windows.  Gerard Gomez was born in France to an Italian mother and a Spanish father.  His Mediterranean roots are present in the vitality of his paintings.