Carbon Reverie

Carbon Reverie is a full-time tattoo artist and painter specializing in floral and ornamental tattoos, and symbolic paintings. A self-taught artist, she has worked professionally as a painter since 2014 and began tattooing in 2022, bringing a deeply developed artistic foundation into her tattoo practice.

Reverie is a contemporary figurative painter whose symbolic works draw on comparative theology and anthropology to investigate the visual languages of sacred experience across cultures. Through painting and tattooing, she explores the human figure as a site where symbolism, ritual, and cultural memory intersect.

Rather than subscribing to a single belief system, she investigates these traditions as expressions of human experience, exploring the universal questions that shape identity, consciousness, and humanity's relationship to the unknown.

April 2025
Arts for the Earth
Detroit Tattoo Club
Detroit, MI

June 2024
Electric Forest Festival
Featured Artist
Rothbury, MI

June 2023
Electric Forest Festival
Featured Artist
Rothbury, MI

September 2022
"Ritual"
Womenworks.Art
Poughkeepsie, NY

September 2022
ArtPrize
Grand Rapids, Michigan

August 2022
"PRISMATIC"
Padzieski Gallery, Dearborn, MI

June 2022
Licensed exclusive commercial image rights for original paintings in a commissioned project valued at $30,000, while retaining ownership of the original artwork

March 2019
"Venus Group Exhibition"
La Bodega Gallery, San Diego

December 2018
"Found in the Underground II"
Tangent Gallery, Detroit

November 2018
"Mixed Bag III"
D-Surgence Studio, Detroit

September 2018
"Perfect 10"
La Bodega Gallery, San Diego

March 2017
“Mixed Bag II,”
D-Surgence Studio, Detroit

June 2016
“Annual Garden Party,”
Detroit Artists Market, Detroit

October 2016
“21st Annual ArtWorks Detroit”
Benefit for Matrix Human Services, Detroit