LUNAR

Solo Show, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN

January 14 - February 26

Carla Ciuffo’s transportive, digitally-manipulated photographs conjure otherworldly vistas; hazy pastel dreamscapes dusted with stars, accentuated by flashes of brilliant reds and blues. Silhouetted visitors are dwarfed by massive observatories, the telescopic apparatus of science-fiction-turned-reality; geodesic domes housing the hi-tech lenses capable of capturing light from stars a billion miles from earth.

Coincidentally, the “lunar” topographies of the desert–where urban sprawl and light pollution don’t yet reach–are the precise places where this sort of image making is possible. Ciuffo’s approach treads the boundary between documentary and experimental arts. This involved pilgrimages to various sites of cosmological significance, including Kitt Peak National Observatory, Meteor Crater, Mt. Lemon Sky Center, and more.

Ciuffo’s innovative image making process, along with her utilization of experimental printing and installation techniques, create a layered and immersive environment. A custom “Lunar” aroma by award winning scent designer Christopher Brosius (I Hate Perfume) adds an olfactory element while shifting surfaces created by photographic overlays, video projection, and ambient sound yield a sublime space for escape and reckoning. To learn more about this amazing aroma, visit I HATE PERFUME, where it’s now available to purchase.

Here, 50,000 year old craters, light from distant stars, cutting-edge imaging technologies all coexist. At a time when the world is, once again, turning towards the cosmos, Ciuffo turns her imaginative gaze earthward in constructing these cosmic portals that collapse time and space. The exhibition undertakes a metadiscourse of the creation and circulation of imagery so integral to an understanding of our place in the universe.

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Highlighted Works

For experimental work, works in progress and moving artworks visit my Instagram feed at instagram.com/carlaciuffoworks

NYTimes photographer/frequent contributor.

Special Projects:

Ada Limón - Portraiture of newest United States Poet Laureate

The Kids are All Right - Margaret Renkl

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

Nashville Voyager July 12, 2021

https://nashvillevoyager.com/interview/life-work-with-carla-ciuffo-of-east-nashville/

Summer 2022

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

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

Bound

Stasis

Hallucinations

Golden Hour

Tinney Contemporary Online Exhibition of New Work, Animal Instincts

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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

P O R T A L S | TINNEY CONTEMPORARY | JANUARY 19 - MARCH 9

I created the “Portal” as a circular sculpture for digital and video art; an object to receive visual narrative, a mutual exchange between story and screen. I wanted my stories to reflect from a specific source, and provide a different experience than a traditional projection. Each portal offers the viewer a display of light, dimension and moving parts. A receptacle for imagery and tiny films, the current portal construct has an 18 inch diameter and is is hand crafted from wood and each is fitted with a thick acrylic medallion center. Portal is meant to be a small semi-private viewing experience, insisting the viewer lean in and watch three dimensions at play.

2D AND VIDEO WORKS ENTITLED PARTY AT THE WHITNEY

Corporate

The Human Kind, Animated Short , Trailer

Us. Humans. We are storytelling animals. Memory, language, plus the intangible realm of thoughts, beliefs and consciousness all contribute to what makes us unique among other animal species.

The Human Kind moves through the enigma of being human as an interconnected experience, drawing the conclusion that we need to continue to learn from our past, imagine better futures, and create new and better ways of being together for the sake of ourselves, other animals, and our planet.