ENOC PEREZ
“Seagram Building, New York”, 2006
Oil on canvas
106 by 86 in. 269.2 by 218.4 cm

Mitchell-Innes and Nash presents its first exhibition of work by Enoc Pérez. “Enoc Pérez: New York” features several new, large-scale paintings of Modernist architectural landmarks in New York City, including Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, 1958; the Lever House by Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, 1952 and the United Nations headquarters by Le Corbusier, 1953. By focusing on the buildings’ formal components, Pérez captures both the starkness and the visionary optimism of the International Style, a style of architecture popular in the U.S. and Europe in the 1920s-50s. The paintings in the exhibition explore the ways that form can become a symbol of power, both institutional and aesthetic.

Enoc Pérez was born in Puerto Rico in 1967. He received his M.F.A from Hunter College and his B.F.A. from Pratt, both in New York. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the Americas and Europe since the 1990s, including solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Cologne. He will be the focus of a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami in 2007-2008. He has also been included in numerous group shows including “Dear Painter…” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (which later traveled to Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Vienna Kunsthalle), 2002 and “The Undiscovered Country” at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, 2004. Pérez lives and works in New York.