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Embassies by artist Enoc Perez / photo courtesy UTA Artist Space
UTA Artist Space is
pleased to announce a solo exhibition titled Embassies by New York-based
artist Enoc Perez, will present a series
of new works that will be on view at the space until June 17, 2017.
For this exhibition,
Perez has created a set of architectural paintings that feature the United
States Embassy buildings scattered across the world. Born from frustrations
with the country’s recent presidential election, the artist seeks to unpack the
collective identity that these physical constructs generate (or perhaps impose
on citizens). More specifically, Perez questions how the contemporary political
landscape has narrowed our relationships with these buildings. His meditation
likens them to bunkers–decaying shelters that refute the utopian ideals they
seemed to offer in the past.
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Embassies by artist Enoc Perez / photo courtesy UTA Artist Space
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Embassies by artist Enoc Perez / photo courtesy UTA Artist Space
In the way that
Perez’s previous architectural paintings were filled with a sense of optimism,
the Embassy works usher in a certain anxiety. Portraits of such compounds in
London, Beijing, Tel Aviv, and Saigon, among others, suggest a larger shift in
perspective. Individual identities are both lost and overshadowed by the
perversions of political conflict. Outsiders are left with these singular
walled beacons that are more suggestive of moral depreciation than the honor and
pride of previous generations.
Perez’s paint is
layered onto canvases in a manner that reflects that of a blueprint–here
viewers are forced to confront the polarizing path that a select group of
individuals have devised on behalf of an entire population.
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Embassies by artist Enoc Perez / photo courtesy UTA Artist Space
ABOUT ENOC PEREZ
Born in San Juan in
1967, Enoc Perez first took painting lessons at the age of eight. As the son of
an art critic, he spent family vacations traveling to museums in different
countries and learning about the history of art. In 1986, Perez moved to New
York to study painting at the Pratt Institute before earning his master’s
degree at Hunter College.
Perez’s work can be
found in the permanent collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; British Museum, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven;
New York Public Library; RISD Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Zimmerli Art
Museum, Rutgers University; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College;
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Williams College Museum
of Art; Queens Museum; University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and
Pacific Film Archive; Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; Art, Design, and
Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Richmond Center
for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University; Vera List Center, New School; and
the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin.
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