Carla Ciuffo

I'm a New Yorker transplanted to Nashville and have lived in the south for the last nine years. My work lies somewhere between illustrative narrative, photography, and collage. Imagery is stripped down to its most basic elements, light and texture. Details are taken away then integrated back into the artwork to shape new composite works. Forever analyzing the enigma of being human, I continuously construct and deconstruct the boundaries of my photographic world.

There has been a natural progression for me to move from 2D art into 3D, AR and VR and experimental animated film. My first animated non narrative short will premiere at Aggregate Space Gallery's 2nd annual film festival in July 2018. and a new multi media video installation speaking to the will be exhibited during 2018 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan speaking to survivor experiences of human trafficking. Tinney Contemporary in Nashville Tennessee will be showcasing my installation Close Encounters in Virtual Space, a solo show displaying alternative modes of artwork that go beyond the physical space of the gallery, moving into video, augmented and virtual reality in January 2019.

I've produced a number of installations including portraiture of iconic and contempor...

VISITING ARTIST | Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
New project | Neurofashion, Nanofiber and the Little Black Dress

A new project exploring the world of nanofiber technology inspired by Harvard’s Kit Parker and his invention of a cotton candy and rotary jet spinning technology.
Merging art and science, I'm collaborating with Harvard's bioengineering department, spinning nanofiber canvases as backdrops for a new series. Based on a fact finding and artistic journey, this new Stasis series merges art with science and presents the exquisite infinite, universe of the microscopic nanofibers along with Kit's theory on Neurofashion, Nanofiber and the Little Black Dress.

Exhibits and Installations

A Thousand Hands A Million Stars.

A Thousand Hands: A Million Stars is a creative, collaborative effort uniting visual art, poetry, music and song created and performed all by women as a vehicle to bring awareness, empowerment and a voice to those that have been rendered silent and hopeless by their experience in human sex trafficking. In doing so, the women artists are partnering in a cause championed by multiple organizations dedicated to the healing of survivors of trafficking. Outside of awareness, the artistic, literary and musical project is designed to illicit a genuine emotional response and empathy for an often misrepresented and misunderstood issue. An in-person experience of the cross-collaborative efforts may serve as a force for change in perceptions, support and help for the survivors of human sex trafficking.

The artists of “A Thousand Hands: A Million Stars” have taken inspiration through survivors’ experiences and stories, contributing to personal narratives of their journey in, through and out of human sex trafficking in hopes of providing visibility to the invisible victims and the power of recovery and healing. This project is interactive, community-driven, collaborative and ...