Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Enoc Perez · September 10 - October 10, 2009

534 W 26th Street
September 10 - October 10, 2009

Press Release

New York, July 9, 2009 – Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces its second solo show of paintings by Enoc Perez. These new works further explore Perez's interest in the relationship between form and desire.

The exhibition will include several paintings of modern and contemporary architectural landmarks. From a famous Norman Foster building in London to a small bank in Georgia by an unidentified architect, Perez has sought out images that speak to an idealized public life. For Perez, the buildings he paints represent an optimism tinged with the sadness of an impossible utopia. His architectural subjects often seem both futuristic and nostalgic – always looking forward to a perfect future that will never come. The largest painting in the show will be the monumental canvas "Palace of Justice," a Niemeyer building in Brazil.

Perez continues to work with a unique painting method: each layer of paint is applied via an intermediary layer of paper, in a process that relates to mechanical printing. But as his mark-making has become more expressionistic and his surfaces more thickly worked, he tests the limits of his self-imposed constraints.

Enoc Perez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1967 and currently lives and works in New York. He received his M.F.A. from Hunter College and B.F.A. from Pratt, both in New York. In 2007 he was the focus of a major survey exhibition at MoCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in the Americas and Europe, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; and El Museo del Barrio, New York. He is represented in New York by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

Listing Information:
Mitchell-Innes & Nash: 534 West 26th Street T: (212) 744-7400 www.miandn.com
Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009 Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10am – 6pm
Press Contact: Mamie Tinkler T: 212 744 7400 E: mamie@miandn.com

Exhibition Publications

ENOC PEREZ - SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 10, 2009

Exhibition Images

Alma Bank, Georgia
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 80 in. 152.4 by 203.2 cm.

Hearst Tower, NY
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 40 in. 152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Teatro Popular, Niteroi, Brasil
2009
Oil on canvas
40 by 60 in. 101.6 by 152.4 cm.

Swiss Re HQ, London
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 40 in. 152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Hearst Tower, NY
2009
Oil on paper
41 1/2 by 30 in. 105.4 by 76.2 cm.

Universal Studios Cafeteria
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 40 in. 152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Installation view

House (Delta Shelter, Mazama, WA)
2009
Oil on canvas
24 by 18 in.

Lovers
2009
Oil on canvas
42 1/8 by 60 1/8 in. 107 by 152.7 cm.

Nude
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 40 in. 152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Palácio da Justiça
2009
Oil on canvas
112 by 159 in. 284.5 by 403.9 cm.

Pavilion of the Soviet Union, Expo 67
2009
Oil on canvas
60 by 80 in. 152.4 by 203.2 cm.

Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo
2009
Oil on canvas
80 by 60 in. 203.2 by 152.4 cm.

CHRIS JOHANSON
Untitled
2008
Acrylic and latex paint on found wood
2 panels overall: 95 1/2 by 83 in. 242.6 by 210.8 cm.

JUSTINE KURLAND
After Darius Kinsey
2010
C-print
40 by 30 in. 101.6 by 76.2 cm.

CHRIS MARTIN
White Bread (one loaf + 5...)
2011
Acrylic, acrylic gel medium and bread on canvas
24 by 22 in. 61 by 55.9 cm.

CATHERINE OPIE
Untitled #7
2011
Inkjet print, ed. 2/5
50 by 37 1/2 in. 127 by 95.3 cm.

VIRGINIA OVERTON
Untitled (color)
2011
Lightbox construction, acrylic and inkjet print on paper
35 5/8 by 23 5/8 by 6 3/16 in. 90.5 by 60 by 15.7 cm.

WILLIAM POPE.L
White People Are The Future
2011
Mixed media on paper
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6 cm.

AMANDA ROSS-HO
Correction #59 (Check Minus Check)
1981-2011
Various red acrylic paints and gesso on canvas
96 by 72 in. 243.8 by 182.9 cm.

Installation View

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