Ana V. Fleming

(b. 1994) Ana is an artist and educator currently based out of central Illinois. She received her MFA in Painting + Drawing from the University of Notre Dame in 2021.  

With an interest in speculative futures, plants, technology, and the nonhuman more broadly, my work focuses on the question of what it means to contemplate and confront the possibility of a world-without-us. My paintings and drawings serve as visualizations of posthuman worldscapes — spheres of simultaneity, where deep pasts and distant futures fuse; in which survival is precarious, ongoing; a world of clinging, growth, mutation, and encounter. Melding familiar referents from nature with imagined forms and dramatic colorscapes, these paintings and drawings depict a defamiliarized earth, a world of deep and necessary interconnection, a world that resists our ability to fully recognize it, and yet that we might relate to in a visceral, embodied, subconscious way. Through an illusionistic approach to image-making, I attempt to refocus attention on the complexity of the nonhuman agencies all around us, both those that we recognize, and those that exceed our capacity to perceive.