SKYLAR FLEMING
Tattoo
Gouache, high-flo acrylic, embroidery floss, cold press paper, and Yupo
25” x 29”, 7” x 30”
2025

DESCRIPTION
Tattoo is a collage of organic shapes intertwined with sharp sparks
of matter. This relationship calls to the pain inducing, yet transformative
experience of marking the body. Rather than the ritual aspect of marking
the body in service of a cultural identity or initiation, this piece represents
taking ownership of the body through spontaneity and self expression.
The isolated limbs become matrices for adornment and embellishment,
activating electric sparks in the brain. The cutting treatment of the flesh
communicates an inner understanding of pain and renewal. The vibrant
treatment enacts an exciting impulse of creative potential. A conversation
between permanence and destruction is highlighted with a surgical weaving
of a yellow thread, centering the body

Skylar Fleming she/they
 
INSTA @gnomegirldraws
WEBSITE 
EMAIL- smfleming@cia.edu

BIO 

Sky Fleming’s work explores themes of the experimental and the natural world through a variety of mediums and techniques to achieve the exploratory nature of artmaking and investigate the themes of patterns that occur in nature with an emphasis in the microscopic world. Currently a student in the Painting program at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Sky will graduate in 2026 with a BFA degree.





SECONDARY PIECE



Skylar Fleming
Untitled
Fluid acrylic, ink, gesso on muslin 
30” x 46”