Alaina Enslen: Rewilding

Alaina Enslen: Rewilding
March 28 – May 10, 2026

My newest body of encaustic and textile collages embraces a wilder, more untamed energy. By deconstructing fabric—fraying, pulling, and cutting apart—I allow it to shed its fixed function and become something more vital, raw, and expressive. Wax holds these fragments in tension: preserving looseness while amplifying texture, gesture, and movement.

Hudson Valley artist, Alaina Enslen, merges fiber and encaustics to explore the poetics of memory, identity, and transformation. Rooted in personal narrative, her work engages the tactile and symbolic potential of cloth, wax, and paper—materials that carry both cultural significance and intimate resonance.

Enslen has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally to include museums, galleries, universities, and academic conferences in Lisbon, Porto, Rio de Janeiro and at other major cities. Enslen is currently represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York. 

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, March 28, 3 – 5 pm

Please join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served.

The WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public.

Gallery hours: Friday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm

Image: Alaina Enslen, The Unfurling of a Wild Thread, encaustic and textile, 12 x 12 in., 2025