Patricia Encarnación

Visual Description: A wall displaying various sculpted items: at the center and top, an ombre-colored machete hangs horizontally; two vertical decorative objects resembling bamboo glazed in white with blue patterns hang on either side; a small white sculpture of a bottle sits on a shelf, and a white pointy crown vase with a red flower is placed on a pedestal between the other objects.

Descripción Visual: Una pared que muestra varios objetos esculpidos: en el centro y en la parte superior, cuelga horizontalmente un machete degradado en color marron; dos objetos decorativos verticales que parecen bambú esmaltado en blanco con patrones azules cuelgan a cada lado; una pequeña escultura blanca en forma de una botella está colocada en una tablilla en el centro, y justo debajo una corona blanca puntiaguda con flores rojas en cada orificio de las puntas se encuentra sobre un pedestal, entre los otros objectos.

Visual Description: Three white shelves mounted on a wall displaying various everyday items made out of clay, including avocados, coffee makers, and bottles of rum, for example one of the shelves holds a large conch shell with a coffee maker and comb with hair rollers.

Descripción Visual: Tres tablillas blancas montadas en una pared que exhiben varios objetos cotidianos hechos de arcilla, incluyendo aguacates, cafeteras y botellas de ron, por ejemplo una de las tablillas muestra una gran concha con una cafetera y un peine con rulos.

About

Patricia Encarnación (b. 1991, Dominican Republic) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artist and scholar. Her work depicts the effects of colonialism on different sociocultural strata within Afro-diasporic communities with a special focus on the Caribbean and Latin America. Encarnación explores being from the Caribbean by recontextualizing quotidian objects, landscapes, and aesthetics she was exposed to while growing up in her homeland.

Encarnación was a Van Lier fellow during her residency at Smack Mellon (NY) and has participated in multiple residencies such as MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and Konvent in Catalonia. Her artwork has been exhibited on platforms such as Documenta 15th, the Tribeca Festival Artist Program Award, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, Afro Syncretic at New York University, and I am New Afro Latinx at Museum of Latin American Art, CA. Encarnación has been selected twice in the Centro Cultural León Jimenes in Santiago, Dominican Republic, obtaining the prize bestowed by the city of Cádiz in Spain for cultural immersion and a special invitation to a fellowship sponsored by the French consulate in Martinique as part of a Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Recently, Encarnación participated in the 2021-2022 cohort at the Silver Arts Project

Encarnación received an AAS degree in Illustration and Fine Arts from Altos de Chavón School of Design in the Dominican Republic. This led her to receive a full scholarship to complete her BFA at Parsons School of Design in New York in 2014. She was recently awarded a full scholarship for the graduate program in the Caribbean Studies concentration in Museum Studies at NYU, where she graduated in 2022. Encarnación is currently based in the Bronx, NY.