Carmen Tiffany
My work explores the intersections of memory, material, and imagination, using color and pattern as both language and structure. Moving fluidly between painting, ceramics, and installation, I create environments and objects that oscillate between the everyday and the fantastical. Organic forms, bold motifs, and playful surfaces invite viewers into spaces where joy and curiosity coexist with deeper reflections on time, place, and human connection.
At the heart of my practice is a fascination with how ornament and abstraction carry meaning. Repeated marks, botanical shapes, and geometric rhythms become a vocabulary for storytelling—sometimes celebratory, sometimes contemplative. In installations, I use scale and repetition to transform space into an immersive experience, while in ceramics and paintings I highlight the tactile intimacy of surface and form.
My work is rooted in a lifelong engagement with craft and design, drawing on traditions of folk art, pattern-making, and decorative objects, but recast through a contemporary lens. Whether presenting a wall of vibrant paintings, a collection of sculptural vessels, or an environment populated with playful forms, I aim to create moments of connection and wonder—spaces where the familiar feels new and the ordinary holds extraordinary possibility.