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Artist Statement:
More than an artist I consider myself a medium or a tool to give existence to visions that want to be seen by us. They could be from my own or our common subconscious or even from another dimension. Therefore, Abstract Expression is a selfless and thoughtless process for me. My most successful works are the ones that I have created most spontaneously. Follow me on Twitter

Moonrack, currently at The Art League gallery (The Art League), opens this look at my Architectural series. Swipe throug...
10/25/2026

Moonrack, currently at The Art League gallery (The Art League), opens this look at my Architectural series. Swipe through to see more from the series.
The series has three sub-collections within it: Blue collection, Light Halls, and Floating themes.
I started this collage project in 2019, photographing flat stones, corroded surfaces like old walls, wooden structures, rusty metal, lakes and pools, nets, and fabric patterns — cropping them into geometric shapes, combining them with very smooth gradients, and painting over them.
It began as traditional analog collage, printed photos adhered to canvas. It has since become digital collage: the result printed on watercolor-type archival art paper, mounted on wood panel, and painted over with water media, spray paint, ink, and pastel.
Which one stops you?

10/23/2026

🎨 (Not) Strictly Painting 15 at MPA
I visited (Not) Strictly Painting 15 at McLean Project for the Arts (McLean Project for the Arts)—48 artists, and I captured every single work in the show.
In the video I said “Strictly Painting” and dropped the “Not”—which the juror’s own notes call the most important word in the title. The poster in the opening shot has it right, and so does this caption.
It was great to meet the juror, Michael O’Sullivan, and some of the artists, and to hear the stories behind their works.
All 48 artists, in MPA’s order: Rama AlFarkh Carol Barsha Fiber artist Stephanie Chang Travis Childers, Michèle Colburn, Pamela Greenblatt Crockett Julianna Dail Delna Dastur, Karen Dean, Elsabe Dixon, Margaret Dowell, Mike Dowley Art, Suzanna Fields, Kevin Hailey, Mira Hecht, Bill Hill, Tom Hill Leslie Holt Kris Iden J Jaffery Sue Johnson Lori Katz Hannah Keats, Keith Krueger, Chee Leah Lewis Laurel Lukaszewski, BK Noh, Betsy Packard, Lynn Putney Sean Riley, Marc Robarge, Anne Rowland, Lisa Sheirer, Brian Slagle Celia Slater Koda Smith, Judy Southerland, Marisa Stratton, Pamela Thompson, Deborah Tomlin, Dan Treado, Tinam Valk, Jenny Walton, Cathy Wilkin, Abstract, gesture, landscape and figure art, Arlington, VA Andrew Wodzianski. Apologies if I missed tagging anyone.
The show runs through November 7. To learn about our local art events, visit my website and subscribe to my monthly newsletter.

10/23/2026

“A kaleidoscope of broken objects and grids...” 🗝️
In this series, I invite you to delve into inner consciousness by rethinking perspective. Drawing from Western Baroque drama and Eastern traditional art, these pieces balance exuberance with modern abstract color fields.
I leave the narrative open—subtle hints are hidden within the titles and textures.
✨ Drop a ❤️ if this resonates with you, and tell me: which image stops you in your tracks?
📐 Details: Layered mixed-media on wood panel (acrylic, spray paint, watercolor, ink, pastel).

🎨 LethophobiaMy newest mixed media piece—and the first time I’m incorporating a photo of my handmade clay sculpture into...
10/19/2026

🎨 Lethophobia

My newest mixed media piece—and the first time I’m incorporating a photo of my handmade clay sculpture into my mixed media collage work. My pink clay torso, “Roseate Relic,” stands in a painted corridor beside a crouching figure, inside architecture that won’t stay still.

It’s about existential terror: the immediate, instinctive dread of becoming another ruined relic before ever truly living.

I always start with a smaller study—this is the final piece, 36×36 inches on water media on a wood panel, grown from the study I posted back in August. Watercolor and watercolor stick over my pigment-print base: print on watercolor-type cotton rag, mounted on wood, painted over.

Slide 2 shows the process, rulers and all. Studio visitors always ask how I get those curves—the answer is a flexible curve ruler, and the kids love the demo.

What do you see first—the figure or the architecture? Tell me in the comments.

10/17/2026

🎨 Art Night 2026 at Hickok Cole
We had a great time Thursday night at Hickok Cole’s annual fundraiser Art Night, branded as “Art Knight” this year. An honor to be part of it—my three pieces there are Inner Garden and Lily Den from the Perspective series, and Uplift II from the Architectural series. Details on my website.
As the main event of the year to raise funds for the Washington Project for the Arts, this event is always the best opportunity to meet and mingle with other local artists and art lovers while supporting our community.
The event already raised $195,330 by 8 pm, a record-breaking amount—the biggest fundraiser in 26 years—with 90+ artists participating. The online auction runs through October 22. See link on my website.
Here are some of the artists featured in my snapshots: Joan Konkel Andrea Barnes Sam Kittner | Photographer jordanhamlettsanders Sara Bardin Alexandra Arata Lindsay Mueller Emon Surakitkoson เอมอร Julie Paez Antionette Hodges John Aquilino Dany Lucienne Mettam Laurel Lukaszewski Xenia Gray muszstudio Kathy Cornwell Andrea Cybyk Delna Dastur Dicxon Vergaray Mira Hecht Chee Hannah Cohen Evelyn Johns Claudia Aziza Gibson-Hunter Fallon Chase-Lawrence Ruri Yi Ali Wunder Adjoa J. Burrowes. Apologies for missing any.
Thank you Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and Hickok Cole for a wonderful night.

10/12/2026

🎨 October Open at The Art League
I am delighted to have been selected for the October Open Exhibit at The Art League, Alexandria, VA (The Art League) — my 8th acceptance to a group show by The Art League this year — with my painting Moonrack, juried by Paul Sattler.
Moonrack is a mixed-media piece — watercolor, ink, acrylic, pastel, and pigment print on a 24×24-inch water-media wood panel — from the Blue collection of my Architectural series: an imaginary scene of a structurally impossible construction over water, a full moon, and thunderbolts.

This is a great group show, in conjunction with Celebrating Realism, a wonderful solo exhibit by R. Brent Erickson, as well as the adjacent Gallery 75, which features many affordable pieces, including mine and my partner Dicxon’s (Dicxon Vergaray). Today, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, is the best opportunity to check it out — the Torpedo Factory is open 10 AM to 6 PM. If you’re coming, say hi to me too at Studio 5, on the same floor!

It is such a pleasure to be among such great local artists and friends. This 50-second reel is just a teaser to invite you in, featuring some of the artists listed below (apologies to those I’ve missed by name or image due to Instagram limits): Kathlyn Avila-Reyes, Kenneth Bachman, Mindy Brown Mindy Brown, Ron Colbroth Ron Colbroth, William Hendricks Hodges Hendricks, Meghan Hendy Meghan Doyle Hendy, Barbara Henris, Rebecca McNeely Rebecca McNeely, Teresa Oaxaca Teresa Oaxaca, Marsha Staiger Marsha Staiger, Barbara Stauffer Barbara Stauffer, Kay Walsh Kay Walsh, Kellee Walters, Judy Wilson, Amy Woodhouse, and Carolyn Marshall Wright Carolyn Marshall Wright.
Posing with the work: my partner Dicxon Dicxon Vergaray, Nancy McCarthy N McCarthy Art, Abu Kamara, and Farid Shahsavarani .

10/10/2026

🎬 Six solos, one night at Hill Center
I was delighted to see two of my best friends, Vugar Guliyev and Sharon Robinson, having solo shows in the same exhibit — and to discover new works by other great local artists. Many thanks to Anne Barnes for curating and participating in this exhibit.
Six solos filled the galleries and this is a quick snapshot of five of them — I highly recommend visiting in person. Inside: Sharon’s SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, Vugar’s THE FRAGILITY OF MEMORY, Anne’s COLOR WAYS, Kevin Mitchell’s FLOOD LAND, and Roderick Turner’s LIFE IN DC.
Guliyev Vugar Anne Barnes Kevin Mitchell



My teacher and friend Sharon Robinson — SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. Layered collages and assemblages woven from cultural textiles and symbols, all about what connects us as humans.

My friend Vugar Guliyev — THE FRAGILITY OF MEMORY. Vivid color and dreamlike figures circling memory itself — how it reshapes who we are over time. Guliyev Vugar

Anne Barnes — COLOR WAYS. She curated these shows and hung her own high-keyed abstractions among them — layered color, gesture, vivid mark-making. Anne Barnes

Kevin Mitchell — FLOOD LAND. Quiet, tonal paintings of salvaged objects and watermark lines — traces of rising water and what it leaves behind. Kevin Mitchell

Roderick Turner — LIFE IN DC (THE EVER CHANGING CITY). Open-air cityscapes painted from life — cranes, rowhouses, the waterfront — the city’s past and present in one frame.

10/08/2026

🌅 Awakening
The newest piece in my Spirits series, where I fuse figure and landscape through a musical approach — dense filament-like threads as melody, parallel striations as harmony.
In Awakening, the veiled figure appears from behind the horizon, solidifying into a veil that rises ground-up in the foreground — an awakening of our physical presence. It may be a reincarnation, or a transition from another realm into this one; the red planet may or may not be the Earth.
I leave the full narrative to the viewer — I’m not a narrative artist. I always invite you to finish the story by delving into the ambiguity.

🖼️ Elsewhere Within I often visit Rosemary Feit Covey’s studio, a floor above mine, to discover her always-surprising ne...
10/05/2026

🖼️ Elsewhere Within
I often visit Rosemary Feit Covey’s studio, a floor above mine, to discover her always-surprising new works and enjoy her company. But it was an amazing experience to see her floor and wall installations in a larger space. The emotions her art gives me are indescribable — the guilt of walking over human suffering, flying towards freedom, the entanglement of nature and manmade...

This time last year, Roya Chadab curated my solo show at Pars Place — I had no idea she was also an established artist, with so much in common with me in combining geometrical and organic forms to express color. What a pleasant surprise! I felt even more connected to her last night.

Displacement and assimilation — two sides of what it means to leave one world behind and find it still living within you. The opening panel brought both artists together with CGTN’s Asieh Namdar moderating and curator Mary Welch-Higgins. Saadi’s 13th-century verse greets you at the entrance: “Human beings are members of a whole.”
On view at the A***n Gallery at Pars Place through November 29.

Rosemary Feit Covey Roya (Khosrowshahi) Chadab Mary Welch Higgins Pars Place | Iranian-American Community Center



With Rosemary in front of Saadi’s 13th-century verse at the entrance to Pars Place: “Human beings are members of a whole.”

Rosemary Feit Covey — Harbingers, 2026. Wood engraving, painting, and printmaking on canvas, 56 × 56 in.

Harbingers Close up

Harbingers Close up

Harbingers Close up

Rosemary Feit Covey — Birds, 2026. Wood engraving and cutting on canvas, 36 × 36 in. Flying towards freedom.

Rosemary Feit Covey — Thanatopsis: Roots, 2024. Hand-milled acrylic, wood engraving, thread, and found objects on excavated canvas, 36 × 48 in. The entanglement of nature and manmade.

Rosemary Feit Covey — Thanatopsis: Roots II, 2024. Hand-milled acrylic, wood engraving, thread, and found objects on excavated canvas, 36 × 48 in. The entanglement of nature and manmade.

Rosemary Feit Covey — Figures I, 2026. Drawing, printmaking, and mixed media on canvas, 20 × 30 in.

Rosemary Feit Covey — Figures II, 2026. Drawing, printmaking, and mixed media on canvas, 30 × 20 in.

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