These ceramics come from Fleishman's observations of plant-life across the United States. Her travels take her from coast-to-coast, viewing the changing landscape and lighting conditions of each visited place. Within these environmental changes come ecological varieties, observed in her paintings, but fully expressed in her ceramics. With unpolished surfaces, these ceramics hold a similar tacitness of her paintings. They come from the observed flora, yet are not an exactitude of those plants. With their sprayed underglaze, they reveal the shifting light and shadows of their imagined environments.

Saskia Fleishman (B. 1995, Baltimore, MD), graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at The Jentel Foundation, Tongue River Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia has had recent solo exhibitions at Kates-Ferri Projects (New York, NY), Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX), Red Arrow (Nashville, TN) and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Saskia’s work has also been included in group shows at Baker—Hall (Miami, FL), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (Berlin, DE), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), Peep Projects (Philadelphia, PA), and The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), among others. Her work has been featured in Visual Art Source, The Denver Post, Make Magazine, ArtMaze, Root Quarterly, Friend of the Artists, and Galerie Magazine. Saskia is based in Philadelphia, PA.