False Flame

Nate Ricciuto and Lindsay Deifik

“False Flame,” 2018

This kinetic installation is one instance of an ongoing collaboration between Nate Ricciuto and print and textile-based artist Lindsay Deifik. False Flame draws on the language and imagery of processes of data collection and the extractive mining of natural resources, frontiers that are often similarly invisible to the public eye. Resembling proto-cinematic devices such as the cyclorama and zoetrope, the sculpture illuminates the room with shifting light and projected images, while evoking the captivating pull of a portal or beacon. This project seeks to transform the exhibition space into an undulating and entrancing interactive panorama, and infers parallels between physical and psychological frontiers, mythic and mediated spaces, and imagined landscapes.

Video credit: Haigen Pearson

Headshot_NateRicciuto - nate ricciuto.jpg — **Nate Ricciuto, TYL MFA ‘15**
*Lives and works in Columbus, OH*
Website: www.natericciuto.com
IG: @natealso

Nate Ricciuto is a multidisciplinary artist whose work envisions design, architecture, and craft as existing in the odd space between technology and fantasy. His recent projects have been exhibited at the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), Pilot+Projects (Philadelphia, PA), S12 Galleri (Bergen, Norway), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), and the Museum of American Glass (Millville, NJ). He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture (2015), and has been an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School and a Creative Glass Center of America Fellow. Nate’s work was recognized with a 2017 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and he was a recipient of the 2020 Saxe Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society. He lives in Columbus, OH, where he is currently the Glass Program Coordinator at Columbus College of Art and Design, and a Visiting Lecturer at Ohio State University.

Image credit: Ty Wright

**Lindsay Deifik, TYL MFA ‘15**

Website: www.LindsayDeifik.com

IG: @LindsayIlene

Lindsay practices in Philadelphia, PA, where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art. She also holds a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in Saint Louis. She is a former co-director and resident of Front/Space, a 2013 Rauschenberg Seed Grant recipient. She has been an artist in residence at ACRE, the Philadelphia Art Hotel, the Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project, and an Apprentice at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. She is currently a member of Fjord: https://www.fjordspace.com/, a curatorial project space in Philadelphia
Image credit: Shawn Kornhauser