ENOC PEREZ: MONOPRINTS
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 23, 6-8 pm

Exhibition Dates: September 21 – November 1, 2009
Hours: Monday - Sunday, 12 – 6 pm
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to announce ENOC PEREZ: MONOPRINTS, on view at the Printshop from September 21 – November 1, 2009. This presentation will feature new unique works on paper created by Enoc Perez, through the Printshop’s Publishing Residency. The Publishing Residency Program invites artists to collaborate with master printers on a new body of work, and projects are fully published by the Printshop.

ENOC PEREZ: MONOPRINTS continues the artist’s investigation of modernist buildings, exploring the ways that form can become a symbol of power, both institutional and aesthetic. Focusing on two landmark buildings, the Pan American Terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and Oscar Niemeyer’s Teatro Popular in Niteroi, Brazil, Perez reflects on the utopian ideal of internationalism. More than an architectural rendering, Perez’s prints emphasize the process of building an image with a physical history; the luminous colors and mark making denuding the image of both the building’s privacy and its public iconic significance.

Collaborating with Master Printers Doug Bennett and James Miller, Perez developed the prints gradually, using multiple printed and hand-painted layers to create subtle abraded effects on the surface. Revisiting the same image in multiple studies, Perez explored and manipulated alterations in mood and meaning, abstracting the essence of the image through line and color. The complexity of his process and the textured layers of hand coloring endow his prints with a sensitive quality of romantic nostalgia. Expressionistic and gestural, Perez’s monoprints embody the challenges of painting and a simultaneous liberation from traditional printmaking processes, creating something more akin to a spontaneous form of drawing.

ENOC PEREZ (b. 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico, lives and works in New York, NY) 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.

Enoc Perez’s paintings are featured in a solo exhibition on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash from September 10 - October 10, 2009.

The Lower East Side Printshop's programs have been supported in part by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Con Edison Company of New York, The Greenwall Foundation, International Fine Print Dealers Association, The Jerome Foundation, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.  

We thank our volunteers, friends, members, and patrons for their dedication, support, and generosity.

Special thanks to our Patrons:
Lloyd and Laura Blankfein, Susan and Ed Falk, Ronald and Frayda Feldman, Steve and Cheri Friedman, Susan and Richard A. Friedman, Jeffrey Gural, Newmark Knight Frank, John B. Koegel, Esq., Mark and Janet Landau, Stacey and Curtis Lane, Jill and Thomas Marino, Jane and John Nixon, Judy and Donald Opatrny, PECO Foundation, Lisa Pevaroff and Gary Cohn, Jane Dresner Sadaka, Robert and Donna Shafir, Laurie Thomson and Andy Chisholm, Cristin Tierney, Younghee Kim Wait, and Lisa and Lance West.