Carlo Ricafort, Born 1975 in Manila, Philippines; lives and works in San Francisco, CA
Ricafort's work involves free-associative commentaries on society and history through innovative designs that blur representation with abstraction. His aesthetic is a painterly visualization of the abstraction or contradiction of social conditions, which operatively becomes a de-coding of cryptic social messages through which it provides for itself the power of politics. Thus, his artistic process can gain the appearance of being chaotic, eclectic, open-ended, and even “pirated” from multiple sources. But it is in this chasm of polar opposites – from the depths of his psyche to the superficiality of current events, where he looks for meaning.
Born in Quezon City, Philippines, San Francisco based artist Carlo Ricafort received his B.F.A. in Pictorial Arts from San José State University and has exhibited at numerous galleries and cultural spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Manila. In the past 3 years, Ricafort has been actively exhibiting and collaborating with artists from Manila including collaborations with Artist Formerly Known As Friend (AFKAF) based in the Bay Area and Kwatro-Kantos, A solo exhibition at Pablo Fort and a group show with Manuel Ocampo at Finale Art File. He currently resides and works in San Francisco, CA.