54. ENOC PÉREZ

54.  ENOC PÉREZ

 

Enoc Perez, "Nude"
2012
Oil on canvas, 203,2 x 152,4 cm

Untitled, 2014
27,94 x 215,9 cm unique collage

Enoc Perez, "Lever House, NY"
2010
Oil on canvas,  203,2 x 152,4 cm

BIO & STEPS

Born:  

                  Born: 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nowadays:

         Lives and Works in New York, NY

Studies: 

         1992   M.F.A., Fine Art, Hunter College, New York, NY

         1990   B.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Themes and style: 

         Known primarily for his multi-layered paintings of modernist buildings, throughout his twenty year career the artist has nevertheless engaged with a variety of subjects that appeal to him from voluptuous nudes to still lives of Don Q rum bottles.

Enoc Perez’s new photo collages engage with social media, appropriation, and the artist’s consistent and inventive search for new forms.  Sourcing images from the internet of minimally dressed or nude women, from amateur selfies to more professional photos, Perez adds hand painted and cut collaged forms to both obscure and enhance the picture.

The cutout shapes function as censor's marks - thwarting our ability to see the original image in its entirety while making it all the more attention-grabbing and voyeuristic.    At the same time the collaged bits make it into a happy game, playful colors and forms replacing a need for more visual information and reminding the audience of the artist’s role in directing and delivering fresh ways of seeing.

Techniques:      

         His work is primarly developed in paintings and collage.

Solo Exhibitions:

2015

Koenig & Clinton, New York. "Digs"

Peter Blum Gallery, New York. "One World Trade Center"

The Philip Johnson Glass House. New Canaan, Connecticut, "Lipstick"

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris. "Recent Paintings"

Danziger Gallery, New York. "Cut-Outs"

2014

Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY. "Summer Jobs"

Thomas Ammann Fine Arts AG, Zurich. "New Work"

Le Royal Monceau, Paris. "Paintings"

2013

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris. "Paris Mon Amour"

Acquavella Galleries, New York. "The Good Days"

2012

Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington D.C.. "Utopia"

2011

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Bruxelles. "Works on paper"

Faggionato Fine Arts, London. "Nudes"

2010

Acquavella Galleries, New York.

Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin. "Monochromes"

2009

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

2008

Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin. "Tender"

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Faggionato Fine Arts, London. "Suite 720"

2007

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

Lever House Lobby Gallery, NY

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris "Faraway"

2006

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, "New York"

Faggionato, New York, "Works on Paper"

Mario Diacono at ARS LIBRI, Boston, MA, "The United Nations, New York"

2005

Faggionato, London, "Deluxe"

2004

The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA, "Caribe Club"

Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany "The Party"

Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY "Works on Paper"

2003

Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY "Monuments"

2002

Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, "Holiday"

Elisabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, "New Work"

Dee / Glasoe, New York, NY "Enoc Perez"

2001

Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, "The Secret"

1999

Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY, "Winter"

Turner & Runyon, Dallas, Texas, "Daydreaming"

1998

Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY (two-person with Jeremy Blake: Silver Hill), "A Year Without Love"

1993

White Columns, New York, NY

Galeria Uno, Caracas, Venezuela

Group Exhibitions:

2015

Pavillon de I'Arsenal, Paris. "Dimensions Variables"

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine, New York. "Metropolis"

2013

MICA, Chicago. "City Self"

AD&A Museum, California. "POP: Politics of Place"

2012

Collezione Maramotti, Italy. "Painting as a Radical Form"

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Bruxelles, "In Between"

Museum of Contemporary Art ,Chicago. "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity"

Spring Fever, Tony Shafrazi Gallery. New York

International Print Center NY, New Prints 2012 - selected by Shazia Sikander

Caribbean : Crossroads of the world, Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum of Art, and

El Museo del Barrio

Joan Prats Art Grafic, Barcelona. "Jorge Pardo / Enoc Perez"

2011

Espacio 1414, Berezdivin Collection. San Juan. "Painting…Expanded"

2010

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Bruxelles, "Portraits"

Gagosian, Los Angeles, "Meet Me Inside"

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Bruxelles, "Best of"

2009

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, "Transitions: Painting at the (Other) End of Art"

Faggionato Fine Arts, London, "Works on Paper"

2008

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, "Painting the Glass House"

2007

Triennale Bovisa, Milan, "Timer 01/Intimacy"

Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY. "NeoIntegrity"

Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany "Blood Meridian"

Faggionato Fine Arts, London, "Small Format"

2006

Perry Rubenstein, New York, NY

2005

Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show (with Alex Bag, Rowena Dring, Virhil Marti, Carl Ostendarp, Enoc Perez)

Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, "10 Years! Galerie Michael Janssen"

Perugi Arte Contempoanea, Padova, Italy, "Ciao Manhatten"

2004

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "The Undiscovered Country"

Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, "None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists"

Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, "Looking at Painting 2"

2003

Kunstverein, OldenBurg, Germany "hands up, baby, hands up"

Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY, "Environs"

The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA, "Preview 2003"

2002-3

Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "'Dear Painter, paint me…' Painting the Figure since late Picabia"

2001

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, "Art in Puerto Rico through the Ages"

Exit Art, New York, NY, "Boomerang: Collector's Choice"

2000

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, "Two by Two for AIDS and Art" (To benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research)

Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia, "1900-2000: Paintings from a Misshapen Century"

White Columns, New York, NY, Annual Benefit Exhibition

1999

Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida, "At Century's End"

Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, "Fresh Flowers: Floral Imagery in Contemporary Art"

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, "The S-Files: The Selected Files"

1998

Turner & Runyon, Dallas, Texas, "Encyclopedia 1999"

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, "Message to Pretty"

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY, "Home & Away"

1997

Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY, "Road Show '97"

1996

The Art Exchange Show, New York, NY, "The Most Important Thing in the World: Oasis vs. Blur & Artists Who Rock"

Cuenca, Ecuador, V Bienal Internacional de Pintura

1995

White Columns, New York, NY, Annual Benefit Exhibition

1994

Havana, Cuba, Quinta Bienal de la Habana

1993

White Columns, New York, NY, "Update 1993"

Sala Alternativa Galeria de Arte, Caracas; Venezuela Invitational Show

Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico, "Pequenos Formatos"

Public Collections:

Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington D.C.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Suan Juan, Puerto Rico

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wiconsin, Madison, WI

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Vera List Center, New School, New York, NY

Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

Queens Museum, Queens, NY

University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

William College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Hammer Museum, University of california, Los Angeles, CA

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

San francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

In his own words:

I've been in NY for 22 years. After a while you become a New Yorker. I love Puerto Rico, and we have a lot of hotels there that are modernist buildings, and that's probably where the love of this specific type of architecture comes from. In a way, these architects really believed in the idea of utopia. There's a true sense of believing in these buildings, and if you look at contemporary architecture, that's not as much the case. The fact that they're from a different era makes them nostalgic. I love painting, and I believe in painting, and I share that with these architects who believed in utopia. A lot of painters paint to question the medium, which might be perfect for them, but I'm one of those who really believes in painting.

Representative Galleries:

Dazinger Gallery

Aquabella Gallery

For more Information:

http://enocperez.com/still%20lifes

http://www.danzigergallery.com/artists/enoc-perez