“Casitas”, the first solo gallery exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez at Brand New Gallery in Italy
Enoc Perez.
Casitas. Courtesy of Brand New Gallery
Italy - On view a
selection of paintings from Enoc Perez’ Casitas series. These small and
intimate oil paintings portray Enoc’s own humble beginnings in Puerto Rico
through the depiction of the island’s own vernacular architecture.
He
focalizes his attention on his native land with semi-abstract but emotionally
evocative Puerto Rican architectures, homelandswhich immigrants have left
behind in order to pursue better lives in the US.
The works
conjure emotionally-charged memories that Latino immigrants carry with them as
they pursue the American dream.
Named after
places in Puerto Rico, these unpretentious paintings combine abstract elements
with representation to capture a haunting feeling of Puerto Rico’s distant past
and contemporary present. Splattered fields of thick paint and vivid color are combined
to create emotionally charged paintings that conjure up the island’s diverse
cultural instant.
Born in San
Juan in 1967, Enoc Perez first took painting lessons at the age of eight. Son
of an art critic, he spent family vacations traveling to museums in different
countries and learning about art history. In 1986, Perez moved to New York to
study painting at the Pratt Institute before earning his master’s degree at
Hunter College. Finding himself at odds with the program at Hunter, where
students and faculty criticized his paintings as overly seductive and
decorative, Perez maintained his belief in the importance of the aesthetics in
art. Embracing art’s potential for pleasure and beauty, Perez paints sensuous
nudes, still lifes, tropical resorts, and modern architectural icons in a sleek
aesthetic with dazzling, vibrant colors.
Enoc Perez.
Casitas. Courtesy of Brand New Gallery
Enoc
Perez, (1967, born
in San Juan, Puerto Rico) lives and works in New York.
Enoc Perez
graduated from Hunter College in New York in 1992. Perez’
works are in the collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, PR; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; The British Museum,
London, UK; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Corcoran Art Gallery,
Washington D.C., among the others.
A solo show
at the museum Dallas Contemporary is scheduled in 2018. He has exhibited his
work widely internationally, including solo show at: The Philip Johnson Glass
House, New Canaan, CT; Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Nathalie Obadia,
Paris, FR; Thomas Ammann Fine Arts AG, Zürich, CH; Acquavella Galleries, New
York, NY; Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington D.C.; Faggionato Fine Arts, London,
UK; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio
Emilia, IT; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL; Elizabeth Dee,
New York, NY; Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, DE.
Enoc Perez.
Casitas. Courtesy of Brand New Gallery
Recent
group exhibitions include: Konig Galerie, Berlin, DE; MCA Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Collezione
Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, IT; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY;
International Print Center, New York, NY; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,
NY; Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY;
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,
CT; Triennale Bovisa, Milan, IT; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Centre
Pompidou, Paris,FR; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE.
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