Saturday, January 31, 2026

February Artist of the Month

Art At The Kent Library

Fonseca is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist with a BA in Photography. CCNY My

artwork is shaped by chance encounters, memories, and evolving ideas rather than a

fixed outcome. It began with an invitation for a solo exhibition at Kent Library in Putnam,

New York, a place I encountered while helping a friend install his show. Having worked

in libraries throughout high school and college, the setting prompted me to reflect on

past systems of knowledge and their contrast with contemporary digital information

retrieval. I realized that many younger visitors have never encountered a physical card

catalog, and that absence became the project’s conceptual anchor. While visiting

California, I encountered a carpenter’s workshop and met Michael, who owned an

authentic card catalog. He generously gifted me a portion of it, confirming the card

catalog as the ‘container’ for the project. The work then evolved into a dialogue between

the physical/analog, and the virtual/AI-driven, with ChatGPT assisting in the project’s

research and structure. The ‘content’ emerged from a personal moment of realizing my

ignorance. Preparing for a digital exhibition in Grenada, I realized I did not know where

the country was. This gap in geographic knowledge, despite formal education, became

the catalyst. With AI’s assistance, I assembled maps, lists of Caribbean sovereign

nations and dependencies, Dewey Decimal classifications, and QR-codes. The

installation presents a pebble-textured Caribbean map mounted on metal mesh. Each

island is illuminated by an LED activated by the viewer. Visitors may take a catalog

card. I now have a better idea where Grenada is!

Island Paradise

12"x12"x3"

$150

Cool Vibes

12"x12"x3"

$150