Jorge Enrique is a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist based in Miami. In his work, the artist deconstructs the urban environment into the layered complexity of surfaces where visible erasing, abrading, scraping, and layering evoke a tactile sense of decay, reuse, hidden imagery, and meaning. Drawn to the intellectual sparseness of abstraction and conceptualism, Enrique employs a wide range of media—drawing, painting, silkscreen, monoprints, and sculpture—to create surfaces that combine pure abstraction with the primal exuberance of saturated color.
In his work, Enrique uses familiar abstract signs and marks—scrapes, scratches, abraded and stenciled numbers, imprinted rubbings from street drainage grids and manhole covers, industrial detritus, tire tread marks, and embossed aluminum diamond plate patterns—forms whose repeated presence may seem meaningless but actually constitute the often overlooked language of the urban landscape.
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1960, Enrique and his family immigrated to Madrid before moving to the U.S. He studied at Houston’s Alfred Glassell School of Art and relocated to Miami in the early 1990s. Enrique has exhibited internationally, including in Miami, New York, Paris, and London.
