Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación
 

Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación is a visual artist and art educator born and raised in Puerto Rico. Before moving to the US, Encarnación received a BA in Social Sciences/Forensic Psychology from the Universidad de Puerto Rico (2010). Once in New York City, he obtained a BA from CUNY Lehman Herbert College (2013) and a Masters in Fine Arts from CUNY-The City College of New York (2016); from where he was awarded with the Bernard Levinson Award and the Connor Fellowship, respectively. His works have been included in various groups exhibitions at The Clemente Center and Educational Center and ARTviews Gallery; and has collaborated in public and community-based art projects with non-profit organizations. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Painting and the use of mixed media on small works are his vehicle to connect and communicate aspects of his identity and their coexistence with nostalgia and the past. The tropical flora, vivid colors, patterns and line-work, become the aesthetic elements of Encarnación’s artwork. His ideas and creative process start from an inevitable longing of revisiting personal memories in an attempt to understand the effects of relocation. This retrospective exercise works simultaneously with his interest on using art and its processes as a thought mediator and as an emotional healer.

Space to Connect Programming

As a Space to Connect artist, Encarnación hosted visual arts classes with students (ages 7-12) at Fordham-Bedford’s Refuge House location during after-school hours. Students engaged in a variety of different mediums, learning the basics of printmaking, collage, collagraphs, stamp-making, and photo transferring techniques through the exploratory visual arts program.

Medium:
Painting, Sculpture
Links:
Website, Instagram
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