Summer 2023

Stasis Installation/17 artworks/Norwegian Cruise Line Viva/Launching summer 2023

17 selected large format artworks from the Stasis series will be installed aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s new ship, Viva, the second of six new ships within the new Prima Class.


LUNAR

Solo Show, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN

January 14 - February 26


Summer 2022

Stasis Installation/21 artworks/Norwegian Cruise Line Prima/Launching summer 2022

21 selected large format artworks from the Stasis series will be installed aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship, Prima, the first of six new ships within the new Prima Class.


NYTimes photographer/frequent contributor.

Special Projects:

Ada Limón - Portraiture of award winning poet

The Kids are All Right - Margaret Renkl

The Woods are still Lovely, Dark and Deep - Margaret Renkl


April 2022, Installation at 211 Commerce, Nashville TN, Lobby art

Ryman 12’ x 4’, The Arcade, 12’ x 4’


Lobby Install | Conrad | Nashville TN | October 2021



TPAC Salon Series panelist November 10 7pm, Virtual

Tennessee Performing Arts series features entertaining and interactive conversations that explore the diversity of Nashville’s arts and culture community. I’ll be presenting my artwork with three other panelists on November 10.

“You may have heard of the “Nashville Sound.” But is there a Nashville identity when it comes to the visual arts? TPAC’s Kristin Horsley invites together artists Omari Booker, Carla Ciuffo, and Alan LeQuire as well as Susan Tinney, founder and owner of Tinney Contemporary, for a deep dive into what inspires Nashville’s artists, galleries, and more.”

RESERVE


FLUX | Flim Oxford Moving Image Online Film Festival 2020 | Aug-Sept 2020 | Love Note


Sept 2020 - 20th Anniversary Real People 2020 | Old Courthouse Arts Center | Woodstock IL

from the Golden Hour: Summer Afternoon, The Bath


Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach CA | WORD | August 1 - 15

My Video “Love Note” will be exhibited during this show where art explores the use of typography and/or writing as a subject or component of visual art.


 

FOTONOSTRUM GALLERY

48 Carrer de la Diputació
Barcelona, 08015 Spain

14th JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD EXHIBITION, March 2020 - Selected works in the 14th JMC Award juried by Elizabeth Avedon, Rebecca Roberstson and juried and curated by Analy Werbin.

Series: BalloonHeads


September 18 - The Toledo Museum of Art / Center for Visual Arts

A Thousand Hands, A Million Stars

Collaborative performance installation piece about human trafficking will premiere at The Toledo Museum September 12. It will also be a highlight at the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference in Toledo September 19 and 20 and then at Toledo Arts Momentum  September 19 - 21

This is a performance piece of survivor stories that tells of their journeys in, through, and out of human trafficking via poetry, music and visual art.

I’m creating the art and video art for this traveling installation. The other project collaborators are: Dr. Denise Ritter Bernardini, (vocals) associate professor of voice, University of Toledo Department of Music, Jane Mills Atwood (poetry) poet, artist and singer, and H. Gerrey Noh, (composer) Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Hugh A Glauser School of Music, Kent State University.


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James Gallery | Pittsburgh PA

MAY 10, 2019 - JUNE 29, 2019

Multiplicy - A celebration of 28 artists offering contrasts in material and content.

Select work from Nano.Stasis, Stardust. 30” x 45” acrylic oval with augmented reality.


 

January 19 - March 9, 2019

| Tinney Contemporary | Nashville TN

Portals / Solo Show

An exploration of alternative modes of artwork that go beyond the physical space of the gallery. Two dimensional art will become a portal to view hidden stories, expanding with moving images using augmented and virtual reality.


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 The Human Kind, January 4, Selection for First Friday Film Festival, Kansas City MI 

 

 

 

 

 


Select Exhibits and Installations

July 6 - August 4 2018 | Aggregate Space Gallery, San Francisco CA | 2nd Annual Film Festival

A Magic Lantern and Fifteen Magic Slides, non narrative animated film shorts

Award screening at the Little Roxie Theater July 31

Audience Choice Award, Most Seductive


Lobby / 12th fl Installation at 222 Second Avenue, Nashville TN

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Afternoon Light, Arcade, installed as part of Metro Arts Commission 40 for 40 at Metro Courthouse.

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Chosen as one of the artists for the "40 for 40” project, celebrating Metro Arts (Metro Nashville Arts Commission) 40th anniversary and the installation of 40 artworks in the Historic Metro Courthouse and the Metro Office Building. “These new works will join 50 other pieces that form the city’s “One Percent for Art” public collection to be installed in the Historic Metro Courthouse. A citizen selection panel chose artists whose work is creative, innovative and reflects Nashville’s spirit of community, service, justice and equity."
http://www.nashville.gov/…/Projects-in-Progress/Art-Works-4…
#artsnashville #OurArtsNash.


August - September 2017 | Tinney Contemporary | Nashville TN
Solo Show
, New Works: Nano. Stasis Cosmic Garden

Nashville Arts Magazine Review

USA TODAY / Tennessean Review


Lobby Installations 2017


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FEATURE DARK BEAUTY MAGAZINE AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2017 ISSUES


June 2017 | Spectrum Gestalt Exhibit, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Small Works from Stasis

April 2017 | Women's Essence Show, Espace Cominnes, Paris, France
Artist selected for Woman Art Award 2017

Select Works from Words Fell and Stasis

Cover Nashville Arts Magazine, August 2017 Issue

"Wonderland"



New Installation, June 2017, Oak Steakhouse, Westin Hotel, Nashville TN 

Artwork: Harmony, Stasis Series, 20 foot x 5 foot Acrylic Artwork, Backlit with Metal Frame

with Tinney Contemporary


April 14, 2016 | Arts @29 Garden | Harvard | Cambridge MA

Nano.Stasis

Speaker, Presentation for Art, Technology, Psyche II. 

Nano.Stasis is an art form that explores the exquisite side of a radical new technology – one that is changing lives. Sparked by Harvard’s Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Kit Parker, and his invention of a cotton candy-inspired rotary jet spinning technology, nanofibers form the basis of this novel medium.  Parker’s groundbreaking work has created a nanofiber textile that is evolving for a spectrum of futuristic applications – from wound healing, tissue and organ growth to fashion couture and "smart" sports related products. Now, for the first time, the tiny fibers are becoming art. Collaborating with Harvard’s Disease Biophysics Group, artist Carla Ciuffo has worked together with doctoral candidate Nina Sinatra to transform nanofibers into small-scale canvases and large format artworks. Showing how artists use science to make their fantasies real and palpable, their discussion will also focus on how science uses the arts in exactly the same way.

ArtTechPsyche II returns to Harvard on April 14, 2016. This event celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. Harvard Digital Arts and Humanities (DARTH), in collaboration with the Harvard Library and the Digital Futures Consortium, invites you to participate in a day of immersive digital experiences, art exhibitions, technology demos, and visionary speakers on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at Arts @ 29 Garden from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Explore the creative process and its impact on emerging technologies. Discover the ways in which technology shapes us, and conversely, how the artist continually challenges and informs technological development. Interact with cutting edge art installations and software demos to experience the world in new ways. Meet like-minded faculty, staff, students, researchers, and colleagues of any skill level while exploring new projects and collaborations on and around campus.



Nano . Stasis > New Works > Merging Art with Science at Harvard

Neurofashion, Nanofiber and the Little Black Dress

ArtFixDaily.com Harvard Visiting Artist Carla Ciuffo Merges Art With Cutting-Edge Science

READ MORE HERE


Girl With a Scar > Customs House Museum

Customs House Museum | Clarksville TN

ClarksvilleNow

Girl With a Scar | October 1, 2015 - November 30, 2016

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
― Harry Crews

Nashville Arts Magazine review of Girl With a Scar

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Stasis at the James Gallery | Pittsburgh PA

James Gallery | Pittsburgh PA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 - NOVEMBER 14, 2015
Second Nature

Second Nature Review | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Stasis and Second Nature

Organic elements found in nature, like human beings, are transient. They/we exist in a constant state of cyclical transition. Change and resisting change is second nature, something deeply ingrained within the enigma of being human. If you look closely at the composite photographs in Stasis, you’ll notice tiny human bodies drifting like caraway seeds tossed in the wind. And with the human subjects free from gravity, the dandelions and wintry trees can bear as much emotional weight as the fragile human bodies. It is their second nature. It is our second nature.

They should be full of movement, but as these minuscule humans float within an enormous garden, it feels like something is about to happen but hasn’t – yet. Perhaps they’re diving headlong into the void, or perhaps they’re ascending. It’s not clear, as this in-between moment absolves them of judgment.

As in second nature, Stasis takes pause, presenting a moment of calm before we take the inevitable next step.




SAATCHI ART | Profiled as "Artist of the Day"

August 27, 2015

See what Saatchi curators are excited about ... today I was featured on Saatchi Art as "artist of the day." The image profiled is titled "Above Me."

To view on Saatchi Social media click here.

To view other works on Saatchi please click here.

 

 

 


December 2014, Stasis, Heavenly Bodies, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN


Jackson Thornton Installation

Nashville TN


The Melrose Installation

Nashville TN


Twelve Twelve Installation

Nashville TN


Nelson Mullins Installation

Nashville TN


COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME INSTALLATION

Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville TN | Series: Musicians, Between the Heart and the Breath

Portraiture of iconic and trending artists: Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Tim "Too Slim" Langford, Rodney Crowell, Ray Stephenson, Carolina Chocolate Drops


Nashville International Airport Installation for Bonnaroo | AC Entertainment

A hanging 3D skylight installation titled: Just a Perfect Day.


Thrill at Nashville International Airport