Jorge Enrique is a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist based in Miami. His work deconstructs the urban environment into layered surfaces, where visible erasing, abrading, scraping, and layering create a complex physicality of decay, reuse, hidden images, 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 in 1960, Enrique and his family emigrated 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.
