Tatiana Flis
Layered Worlds
Tatiana Flis creates paintings, sculptures, drawings, and mixed media works that explore the spaces between memory, perception, and lived experience. Working across disciplines, she builds layered environments where personal history, cultural inheritance, and contemporary life converge. Through processes of accumulation, concealment, and transformation, her work examines how identity is shaped by place, relationships, and the shifting social and political landscapes that define a lifetime.
Whether through monoprinted paintings, sculptural installations, drawings, or material based objects, Flis constructs compositions that feel both intimate and expansive. Familiar forms emerge and dissolve within dense surfaces, inviting viewers into spaces where humor, uncertainty, longing, and wonder coexist.
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Selected Works
Each work is a one-of-a-kind construction incorporating monoprinting, graphite, ceramic, casting, and layered assemblage techniques. Click individual works for details or purchase.
Available works typically range from $800–$10,000.
About the Work
Flis works across painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and installation, allowing ideas to dictate material rather than remaining tied to a single medium. Despite this diversity, a consistent visual language runs throughout her practice: layered surfaces, accumulated imagery, shifting perspectives, and forms that appear suspended between recognition and abstraction.
Diverse materials enable the construction of complex compositions built through repeated impressions, overlapping imagery, and collage-like structures. Windows, houses, clouds, landscapes, and architectural fragments frequently appear throughout the work, acting as metaphors for memory, transition, and the ways individuals navigate personal and collective histories.
Rooted in a Ukrainian American upbringing and shaped by decades of social, cultural, and political change, Flis' work reflects an ongoing investigation into belonging, displacement, inheritance, and adaptation. As life evolves through new homes, careers, relationships, and changing family structures, these experiences become woven into the work through layered textures and interlocking forms that suggest both physical and emotional connections. The resulting works often operate simultaneously as personal narratives and broader reflections on contemporary life.
Biography
Tatiana Flis is an American multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and installation. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Studio Art from Ringling College of Art and Design.
Born in New York's Hudson Valley and raised within a Ukrainian American community, Flis draws inspiration from cultural memory, landscape, and the subtle experiences that shape everyday life. Her work has been featured in Artscope Magazine, Art New England, Juniper Rag, and The Boston Globe, and has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States. She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center and Drop, Forge & Tool in Hudson, New York. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally.
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