The New York Times, Friday March 3, 2006.
Art in Review: "Juan Gomez | Lee Baxter Davis"
By Ken Johnson.

In his goofy and seductive paintings of female nudes, Juan Gomez does a nimble, high-low balancing act. The low part is the nude, which Mr. Gomez renders in a simplified style more appropriate for underground comic art than for traditional fine painting. With elongated, tubular limbs and torsos, oversize hands and feet and an emphasis on erogenous parts -- lips, nipples and genitalia -- they are like sexy balloon sculptures.
On the other hand, Mr. Gomez is attentive to the physical and abstract dimensions of painting. Using wide brushes with insouciant immediacy, he paints his figures on medium-large, squarish canvases, folding and bending their arms and legs to create compositions that are at once expansive and compressive. Thinly yet sensuously painted, the pictures glow like watercolors, and they call to mind artists like Bonnard and Alex Katz.
But satiric humor fortunately prevails over more high-minded purposes, especially in a set of small, multifigure watercolors that are more formally transformative, more sexually explicit and funnier.