Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Influenced early in her career by neo-expressionist painters like Francesco Clemente, Georg Baselitz, and Longo and most recently by Austrian artist Luc Tuymans and German artists Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Kippenberger, she composes her paintings “randomly, by using a lot of intuition and a little of the tips I learned from other artists.” Enriquez’s paintings of colorful domestic interiors recall the PostImpressionist works of artists such as Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse. Unlike these “modern masters” however, there are decidedly no people inhabiting these spaces of domesticity, rendering them fetishized images belonging to a realm of idealized and decorative “magazine” beauty than any real spaces of habitation. It was arguably Enriquez who popularized the colorful Expressionist style within the canon of Filipino Visual Art. She filled her canvasses with vignettes of images that look like scenes of places or events juxtaposed side by side almost like a “quilt” of images that are used to tell a story. Interiors of houses and still life painted in her thick Expressionistic brush strokes are also subjects “Keka” is known for. She is also popular for works with her mentor in UP Fine Arts, Roberto Chabet, who was one of the pioneers of conceptual art in the Philippines.