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Carl Wiens

Awarded the Juror's Choice at Art in the County 2026

About Carl Wiens

Belleville-based artist and educator Carl Wiens has built a dynamic and evolving creative practice over a career spanning more than 30 years. Known for his thoughtful integration of collage, screen printing, painting, pattern, and woodworking, Wiens creates work grounded in strong conceptual thinking and refined design. His artistic voice is both analytical and imaginative, reflecting a lifelong curiosity about the natural world, science, and systems of visual communication. Carl works with developing artists at Sheridan, in the Illustration program.

In recent years, Wiens has increasingly focused on gallery-based work, exploring materiality and process through mixed media. His latest exhibition, Carto / Topo / Geo / Graphic: marks a significant new direction. This body of work is the culmination of a year spent collecting, cutting, layering, and reimagining vintage maps and atlases. Through intricate collage, Wiens transforms these historical materials into contemporary compositions that speak to memory, geography, and the human impulse to map and understand the world. In his hands, maps become both medium and metaphor—charting imagined landscapes as much as physical ones.

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