Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sayre Gomez has worked with JRP Editions to release a new mirror artwork entitled Old Growth. It’s not the first time the Geneva-based published house has produced a mirror artwork, having previously collaborated with John Armleder on a series of splattered wall works, as well as Mungo Thomson on his popular Time “Person of the Year” reinterpretation.
Throughout his practice, Sayre has shown an affinity for boundaries and thresholds, be it a mirror or a chainlink fence — both of which he conflates in his latest edition at a one-to-one scale. The artwork is inspired by a reflective cover that was designed for a book to complement the artist’s 2021 exhibition at François Ghebaly in New York, titled Apocalypse Porn. The UV-print on mirror “explores the original gesture further by foregrounding a collision of the built environment and the natural world while simultaneously exploiting the nature of the mirror’s surface,” noted JRP in a statement.
Limited to an edition of 50, Old Growth (2024) measures at 36 x 30 x 1.25 inches and comes signed and numbered by the artist in a custom woodcrate. For those looking to collect, the artwork is available for $4,809 USD and comes with a non-resale clause for two years from the date of the purchase.
