DOMESTIC SCENES

Award-winning author Lawrence Weschlers book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican i mmigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic helpthe nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possibleby inserting images of these workers into sly pastiches of iconic David Hockney pain...[Read more]