HORSEMEN, is an exhibition showcasing artworks by Ed Gomez. The body of work serves as an artistic interrogation into the intersection between Christian eschatological prophecies found in the Book of Revelations and the book Behold a Pale Horse by conspiracy theorist William Cooper. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are represented in portraits as contemporary figures which have been reimagined through modern day filters found in film, news stories and popular culture. Each portrait represents a modern personification of the horsemen as Conquest or Pestilence, War, Famine and Death and calls into question binary notions of good and evil, fact or fiction as well as fear-based sensationalism filtered through the media. A large polystyrene sculpture of a draped Arabian horse serves as a symbol of “the pale horse” which represents Death.
Horsemen seeks to continue the legacy of illustrating passages from the Book of Revelations in an art historical context while modernizing the subject and art making process.
Ed Gomez is an artist, curator, and educator who received his BFA from Arizona State University in 1999 and his MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design in 2003. Since then he has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally and curating various art exhibitions that deal with the region of California and Mexico as an area of aesthetic production.
Ed Gomez’s interdisciplinary art practice revolves around the questioning of exhibition practices, institutional framework and historical models of artistic production. In 2006, he co-founded the MexiCali Biennial, a bi-national art and music program addressing the region of the US-Mexico border, which he is currently a director and co-president. This project serves not only as a curatorial project but also a satirical statement to the abundance of biennials occurring around the globe and the impact they have on the art community. Mr. Gomez is also the director of G.O.C.A., The Gallery of Contemporary Art, which is a traveling self-contained exhibition space humorously located in his suitcase. It has showcased emerging and established artists from Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York and Mexico. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at California State University San Bernardino.
