Saskia Fleishman

Bio/CV: Saskia Fleishman, born in 1995, graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at Jentel Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia’s work has been exhibited in a recent solo exhibition at Silo 6776 in New Hope, PA, and in group exhibitions across the United States, and in Rome and Portugal. Fleishman is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Artist Statement: This body of work is generated from landscape photographs taken on recent trips and images sourced from my family’s collection taken around the tidewater Chesapeake Bay area.These photographs are recomposed as geometric abstractions derived from the color studies in Josef Albers', ”The Interaction Of Color”. This process involves tilting the image, flipping the horizon line, cutting out a part of the landscape, or creating colored transparencies with chiffon. These gestures serve to suggest an alternative way of thinking and identifying our memories embedded within landscapes, where nothing is absolute and everything is relative. The paintings pair flat and smooth masked airbrushed gradients with textural materials such as sand and burlap.

These paintings highlights the malleability and impermanence of our predetermined systems of seeing, memories, and psychologies over time. It forms a space to contemplate points in our past, perception, conditioning, and our relationship to the life cycles of the landscapes we inhabit and passthrough.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Longitudes and Latitudes, Curated by Kates-Ferri Projects, Silo6776, New Hope, PA (Solo)
Collaged Horizon: Saskia Fleishman and Emily Mason, Curated by Alex Ebstein, Goucher College Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Selected Group Exhibitions: 
2022 Homecoming - Inaugural Alumni Exhibition, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY
Fertile Plains, Dinner Gallery, New York, NY DUOS, Peripheral Space, Los Angeles, CA 

2021 SET/RISE, Curated by Amanda Baker, The Studio at The Citadel, Miami, FL Moody, Curated by Deanna Evans, Studio Archive Project, Brooklyn, NY THRESHOLD, Far x Wide, Brooklyn, NY, Rose Tint, Curated by Kate Mothes, Tiger Strikes Asteroids NY, Brooklyn, NY, New York Rising, One x Artsy, East Hampton, NY, Portals, Curated by Jacqueline Ferrante, The Yard Lincoln Center, New York, NY, STRETCHED, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Winter in the Window, Standard Space, Sharon, CT 

2020 Capsule Collection: Dreamscapes, Alanna Miller Art Advisory, New York, NY, Cake, Hazan Contemporary, New York, NY, Celestial Opera, Human Cathedrals, Curated by Lauren Wolchik, Paradise Palace, Brooklyn, NY, Now, More Than Ever, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Quarantine Exhibition, Alanna Miller Art Advisory, New York, NY, Inside Outside, Outside Inside, The Yard: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Travelers, Temp.img, Virtual, Color Spectrum, Curated by Jason Clay Lewis and Ilona Golovina, The Royal @ RSOAA, Brooklyn, NY 

2019 Be. Long., Curated by Erika Hess, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH, Inner Outer Space, Zampa Club, Brooklyn, NY, White Supplies Last: Museum Edition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Inaugural Flat Files Exhibition, Collar Works, Troy, NY, On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, I could go on forever, PADA, Barreiro, Portugal 

2018 Show #2, Trophycase Virtual Gallery, GIFC, 0-0, Los Angeles, CA, Pinta Art Fair with Y Gallery and LatchKey Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Miami with Spanierman Modern, Curated by Niama Safia Sandy, Miami, FL, MECA Art Fair with Y Gallery, San Juan, PR
Watch It Burn, Curated by Carmen Hermo, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Big Link, Curated by Young Space, Standard Projects, Hortonville, WI Nature|Technology, Beyond Studios, Brooklyn, NY, Eddy’s Room @ Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI, LANDSCAPE, Reis Studios, Long Island City, NY, Happy Hour, Rebecca’s, Brooklyn, NY, Good Aesthetics Go to Heaven, Bizarre, Brooklyn, NY 

2017 OUT OF ORDER: Painting Senior Group Show, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI Painting Senior Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI 

2016 RISD EHP Spring Final Show, Piazza Cenci, Rome, Italy, Tiny Biennial at Temple University, Rome, Italy
RISD EHP Midterm Open Studios, Piazza Cenci, Rome, Italy Painting Accreditation Show, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI 

2015 MADE, Expose, Providence, RI

Residencies: 
2021 Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY
2020 Silo6776, Collaboration with Kates-Ferri Projects, New Hope, PA  

2019 ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, PADA Studios, YNGSPACE/PADA Residency, Barreiro, Portugal   

2018 Trestle Studios, Brooklyn, NY, Otis College of Art and Design, Curator-in-Residence, Los Angeles, CA  

2017 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Merit Grant, Johnson, VT 

Press: Artsy, Galerie Magazine

Collections: Fidelity Corporate Art Collection

Social: @flesh___man