Gomez, Pat. “Stay Tuned.” Center for the Study of Political Graphics, http://collection-politicalgraphics.org/detail.php?module=objects&type=browse&id=2&term=Self%2BHelp%2BGraphics%2Band%2BArt&kv=3365&record=2&page=1.
In this article, Pat Gomez explains how she made her piece titled “Stay Tuned” in 1992. Gomez provides a personal account of witnessing a riot in the Rampart district of Los Angeles and seeing the destruction at hand. While at her job, Gomez was forced to evacuate her downtown studio alone and saw smoke, helicopters, sirens, and guns going off around her. Gomez recounts wanting to leave the city for a few days out of fear of her safety. Upon returning, she sees the National Guard in Los Angeles and a television saying “Rebuild L.A.”. An important aspect of her piece of art are the television sets that showed looters where to go and displayed the violence at hand. Her written account of her experience during a riot is displayed within the piece of art being shown scrawled on a row of televisions. This piece of art is notably categorized as a piece that is meant to showcase police brutality in Los Angeles.
“Speaker Bios.” Americans for the Arts, 15 May 2019, https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/services-and-training/training-professional-development/webinars/digital-classrooms/public-art-and-placemaking-digital-classroom/speaker-bios.
This article written by the Americans For the Arts provides a biography on Pat Gomez and her career in the art world. At the time of writing this article, Pat Gomez was a Creative Services Manager for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Gomez has previously worked as a manager for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. According to the article, Pat Gomez has also worked as a presenter and collection researcher, previously being featured by the American Society of Appraisers national conference in 2007. Pat Gomez also has experience working as the Associate Director for Self-Help Graphics & Art. The Self-Help Graphics & Art collective is meant to bring together Chicano artists to create visual art for the community.
Gómez, Pat. “The Trappings of Sor Juana.” Calisphere, UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections, 1 Jan. 1999, https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb8199p23g/.
This article describes a work by Pat Gomez titled,"The Trappings of Sor Juana". Describing her own work, Pat Gomez describes the vase containing pink flowers with an image of a brain in a thorny cage. The vase contains an image of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and rosaries hang from the top of the image. Included in the art piece is an excerpt from Sor Juana's Disillusionment in the lower righthand corner. Created in 1999, the image is held by UC Santa Barbara's Department of Special Research Collections.
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