Pensive
While these four individuals come from differing paradigms their curious methodological byways and high regard for aesthetic cohesion present a generous opportunity to lose yourself in their work. Doug Crocco delicately renders physical yet labyrinthine abstractions in color pencil. Heesu Jeon scumbles glowing compositions on canvas depicting collages of detritus, anime pastiches and constructivism.
Jonathan Nesci fabricates stark minimal furniture and objects, binding form and function usually with a single material. Manny Prieres hard edge abstractions resemble printed matter but are painstakingly constructed through a hands on tone transfer process.
Pensive was the inaugural show for Tile Blush, on view at the gallery at 8375 N.E. 2nd Avenue from December 2nd, 2017 through January 27th, 2018.
Tile Blush was a gallery in the little Haiti district of Miami, FL. The space was originally called Guccivuitton and run by 3 artists, Loriel Beltran, Domingo Castillo, and Aramis Gutierrez. After 4 years, and a successful show of the Guccivuitton program at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the trio disbanded and left Aramis Gutierrez as the lone director. In 2016 curator Fernanda Torcida and Miami-based designer & artist Jonathan Gonzalez joined Gutierrez. Together they relaunched the space as Tile Blush, which operated until 2021.
Artists: Doug Crocco, Heesu Jeon, Jonathan Nesci, Manny Prieres
