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EQUILIBRIA, mixed media on paper, 11″x15″, 2021.
ROOTED, mixed media on paper, 30″x24″, 2021,
AERIAL, mixed media on paper, 30″x24″, 2021.
Rebirth, mixed media on print, 10″x8″,2021
Newborn, mixed media on print, 11″x8.5″, 2021.
Spring Showers – One Year of COVID-19, mixed media on paper, 11″x8.5″, 2021
Restauration, mixed media on paper, 11″x15″, 2021. SOLD
Life in Balance, Mixed media on paper, 2020
Sediment, ink, gouache, paint pen, and mica minerals on paper, 2020
Untitled, ink, oil stick, and mica minerals on paper, 2020
Bleedings, ink and watercolor on paper, 2020
Bleeding Balance, ink, gouache, paint pen, and pencil on paper, 2020
Shelter, ink, gouache, and pencil on paper, 2020
Untitled, mixed media collage on paper, 2020
Through the Mist, mixed media collage on paper, 2020
THROB, mixed media on paper, 2020. SOLD

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“Getting Back to what we Love” was a 5ftx5ft banner commissioned by Living Walls Atlanta in collaboration with CDC, CORE and the Department of Public Health in order to promote COVID-19 vaccination. The banner was installed at the Latin American Association.
On May 9, 2020, six SCAD alumni and faculty created a chalk mural at the main entrance to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding as a thank-you to Atlanta health care professionals in celebration of the SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival.

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Peachtree St NE@17th St NE. Marta bus stop bench with shed. One block away from the High Museum of Art. Homeless woman. Pile of IKEA bags. Cold day. Woman talking to herself. Woman playing with her hands. Sunny day. Woman staring into space. Woman rejecting spare change. Woman stretching her feet. Hot day. Woman swinging her body back and forth. Rainy day. Woman smiling to herself. Cloudy day. Woman rejecting food. Woman talking and smiling to herself. Woman playing with her hands. Sunny day. Woman staring into space. Windy day. Woman rejecting spare change. Woman stretching her feet. Hot day. Woman swinging her body back and forth. Rainy day. Woman smiling to herself…

…bus stop bench removed.

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Digital Painting printed on watercolor paper

Serigraphy

Sunny Day

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On the Edge

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On the Edge

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The King of Atlanta

Photolithography

Crane Landscape yellow
1/5 “Cranes” from the series “Landscapes of Gentrification”, photolithography, 2018

Crane Landscape red
2/5 “Cranes” from the series “Landscapes of Gentrification”, photolithography, 2018

Crane Landscape black
3/5 “Cranes” from the series “Landscapes of Gentrification”, photolithography, 2018

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4/5 “Cranes” from the series “Landscapes of Gentrification”, photolithography, 2018
Serigraphy

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8/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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5/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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6/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy with reflective tape, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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1/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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4/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy with reflective tape, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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2/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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7/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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3/8, “Invasion” from the series “Structures of Gentrification”, serigraphy with reflective tape, 21 x 21 inches, 2018

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2020 – 2021

My work is an exploration of analogies between the human condition and nature. Individual and collective dynamics affected by inner mechanisms and ecosystemic agents. My making process and artistic practice seek to examine ideas of resilience, transformation, rebirth, tension, balance, transition, uncertainty, impermanence. The imagery and mark making vocabulary in my mixed media drawings and paintings come from the recollection of visual information took in from holistic immersions in natural sites in Atlanta, Ga like the Chattahoochee river area and Stone Mountain.

 

2018 – 2019 

My work examines the relation between urban development and the human condition. I am interested in analyzing and questioning the impact of a booming urban ecosystem over its inhabitants and their interactions within those transforming surroundings. Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines video installation, painting, drawing, and printmaking I intend to tackle societal challenges and hurdles such as the fragmentation of communities, sterilization of areas of the city, and homogenization of populations. The formal language and color palette of the work is drawn from the recognition and observation of visual information and marking systems in the utility sector and construction industry, as well as from an intimate and more personal processes and interactions with simple living organisms such as kidney bean sprouts that I grow in cotton balls.

 

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Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Carla Contreras is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Atlanta since 2016, when she came to pursue her M.F.A degree in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work explores the human condition impacted by the uncertainty and overwhelmingness of our current individual and collective existence through mixed media works on paper and canvas. Contreras’s work has been exhibited at MOCA Ga, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Callanwolde Fine Art Center, The Johns Creek Art Center, The Lovett School, Pace Academy, The Coca-Cola Head Quarters, SCAD Art Sales, The Hambidge Auction, the ART PAPERS Auction, O/Art and The City Auction, and local contemporary galleries like MINT, EYP/100, Besharat, FreeMarket Gallery. Contreras has been featured in publications, and reviews for BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, BURNAWAY, ArtsATL, SHOUTOUT Atlanta, The VoyageATL Magazine for their “Thought Provokers: celebrating artists & creatives” Series, Univision 34 Atlanta, La Vision Atlanta Radio and Newspaper, ELYSIAN Magazine’s Arts and Culture 2020 issue, and the AJC Journal.

You can learn more about her work on the links below:

https://www.wescover.com/creator/carlacontrerasart

http://voyageatl.com/interview/check-carla-contrerass-artwork/

https://www.thehuntressllc.com/carlacontrerasart

https://www.instagram.com/carla.contreras.art/?hl=en

https://www.scadartsales.com/art/artists/carla-contreras https://info.loupeart.com/carla-contreras-artist