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Perez Particularly

The paintings of Enoc Perez are instantly recognizable. The peculiar surface screens a pathos across their photo-imagery that ingeniously denudes the images of both their privacy and their public iconic significance. Their surface renders the pictures as painting. It is an oddity, therefore, that Perez‘s surface effects are the result of a turn away from painting, to drawing. The surface points us to a central theoretical motion perceivable in the artist‘s paintings, a turning between schools of art, culture, and influence. There is no resolution of this motion, no final …