Carlos Encinas , No Vacancy, acrylic paint on wood panel, 44" x 33", 2023

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Carlos Encinas is a Tucson resident and native. He is a lifelong artist who  works with multiple artistic mediums. Encinas  current works are computer  assisted, hand painted acrylics on wood or metal. Carlos Enicnas  paintings are  inspired by current events, popular culture, personal experiences, Latino/ Chicano and border issues. Encinas  is influenced by a large variety of artists in  history as well as contemporary artists found on instagram. My current series of paintings is about Mexican/American border issues, the popular culture of advertising, television, movies, Internet culture, Latino or Mexican American identity, border politics, art and political history, and current events.

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Carlos Encinas is a Tucson resident and native. He is a lifelong artist who  works with multiple artistic mediums. Encinas  current works are computer  assisted, hand painted acrylics on wood or metal. Carlos Enicnas  paintings are  inspired by current events, popular culture, personal experiences, Latino/ Chicano and border issues. Encinas  is influenced by a large variety of artists in  history as well as contemporary artists found on instagram. My current series of paintings is about Mexican/American border issues, the popular culture of advertising, television, movies, Internet culture, Latino or Mexican American identity, border politics, art and political history, and current events.

These compositions are then projected from my computer onto the painting surface, drawn out in pencil and then hand painted. I think of these as similar to mash up or hip hop music with internet images as visual (instead of musical) samples deconstructed then reconstructed into new art forms. I consider these hand painted computer prints.. Carlos Encinas is best known for his public art, a picture book, murals, digital art prints, and paintings displayed in Tucson, Phoenix, and various other locations in the USA. He has worked in a variety of mediums throughout his many years of making art: drawing, painting, illustration, wood, ceramic, steel sculpture, computer art, and furniture construction. He has degrees from the University of Arizona in education and art. He worked as an educator for 30 years. He has worked with multiple artistic themes such as Chicano art, pop art, southwestern art, political art, children’s illustration, and abstract art. His primary influences have been pop artists like the  Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente. Further Carlos has been influenced by the  German Weimar artists like Paul Klee, August Sander,Max Bekmann, Modrian, and George Grosz and the WPA artists.