Puerto Rican artist Enoc Pérez has been busy. This past summer his show with Inge Morath, “Cut Shapes,” which was on view through June 13, 2015 at the Danziger Gallery in Manhattan, received much attention. Then he had a solo show at Nathalie Obadia Gallery in Paris, France, from June 10 through July 25, 2015. Now, a new exhibition, “Enoc Perez: Lipstick,” will be on view at The Glass House from October 25 through November 30, 2015. The Glass House Visitor Center + Design Store is located at 199 Elm Street, New Canaan, Connecticut.
Description: For more than 15 years, New York-based artist Enoc Perez has developed a painting practice that examines the aspirations of modernist architecture. This exhibition will present a new body of work comprising six paintings that refer to the Lipstick Building (1986), an elliptical office tower in Manhattan designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee. In each work, Perez uses his characteristic style to explore the formal qualities of the Lipstick Building in a variety of palettes.
Enoc Perez (born in 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) lives in New York City and earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1990 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1992.
During the ’90s, with John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton he was part of the movement to re-establish figuration in American painting. Since the mid-1990s he has exhibited in many institutions, in particular in “Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity” in 2012 at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Chicago, and at the prestigious Corcoran Gallery in Washington, which devoted a very beautiful personal exhibition to his work, “Utopia” in 2012.
The works of Enoc Perez are to be found in many renowned private and public collections, amongst which the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the MOCA (Miami), the British Museum (London), the SF MoMA (San Francisco), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles).
[Image above: Enoc Perez. Detail of Lipstick Building, 2015. Gold leaf and oil on canvas].
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