Bio
Alfonso Vicencio is a multidisciplinary printmaker and painter from the Washington D.C. area. He received his BFA in Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021 and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2025. Alfonso has exhibited in the District of Columbia Arts Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Alfonso lives and works in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Artist Statement
The representation and use of technologies in our current new media age helps me rationalize the overwhelming and overstimulating chaos of mass-commodification surrounding us. Through research and simply existing within this complex digital matrix of ubiquitous content, I work with a variety of print processes and mediums, combining both the conventional (by hand) and mechanized: woodcut, lithography, inkjet, and painting. I am currently constructing a new mythological canon of characters and agents through multimedia creation; it is in this space I can dissolve the societal narrative myths of differential structures which drive our politics. Since everything can and will be manipulated, from our icons to our beliefs, I attempt to distill this ideology from the true individual who is anonymous, fluid, placeless.
Instead, I am simply searching for what is “human” in a world full of beasts: algorithms that feed us artificiality, superficial networks, all that is “hyper” which has pulled the wool over our eyes. What do we have left now that authenticity is absent from our current age of creation? Even though the uncertainty of what is “true” within the realm of the hyperreal has now bled into our metaphysics and psyches, I still see hope in liberation through making art. There is still beauty and security to be found but only in experimenting. I believe this to be the genuine power of the human hand: resonating with feeling, a potential weapon, the most versatile tool.
Contact
E-mail: alfonsovicencio171@gmail.com