
Upcoming Events:
- The Hill Center Galleries and CHAL: Juried exhibition 2022.
Show Dates: June 8-September 10, 2022
- Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center Artsfest '22 : ART MUSIC FOOD
When: Sat. & Sun., September 17th and 18th (Flyer below)
Address: 13470 Dowell Road
Solomons, MD 20688


I was just featured as Artist of the Month in the April issue of Kensington Neighbors Magazine:


- I was recently interviewed for the McLean Project for the Arts Artfest: Interview

In my abstract paintings, I like to evoke feelings of freedom, liveliness and transformation. Through hyper color contrast and dynamic composition, I try to create movement and instability on my canvas. I thrive on spontaneity, and highly value adaptability and flexibility. I am fascinated by abstract painters like Gerhard Richter and Vassily Kandinsky. Armed with my fancy squeegee and various painting knives, I use techniques from both painters to create colorful imaginary forests and landscapes.
I was born and raised in France but my father was from Nicaragua, a country I have visited numerous times. I presently live in the Washington, DC area where I teach Mathematics part-time at American University and at Montgomery College. I also love learning Argentine Tango.
I hope you enjoy discovering my artwork. See where my work is featured in local spaces: Maria-Victoria Checa Art’s Wescover Map
The painting, Pas Trop Loin de Toi, was one of 50 paintings selected in a national juried all painting competition and was featured at the Circle Gallery in November 2019.
Acrylic & Oil Paintings | Washington, DC | MV Checa Art
Some of my favorite quotes:
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Van Gogh
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso
Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth. Gerhard Richter
The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, but it Bends Toward Justice. Martin Luther King
Les tableaux sont des miroirs magiques, dans lesquels, si l'on sait, en s'éloignant un peu, bien les regarder, d'importes parties de la réalité sont dévoilées. Marcel Proust
Each color lives by its mysterious life. Kandinsky
There is no must in art, because art is free. Kandinsky
Acrylic and Oil Paintings for Sale
Maria-Victoria Checa Art - mvchecaart
Creating vibrant and colorful paintings for sale.
Bethesda, MD - Washington, DC
Maria-Victoria Checa Art Maria-Victoria Checa Paintings
Bethesda, MD - Washington, DC
(202) 669-2590