Upcoming Events: 

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- The Hill Center Galleries and CHAL: Juried exhibition 2022.

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Show Dates: June 8-September 10, 2022            

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- 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. 

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       I hope you enjoy discovering my artwork. See where my work is featured in local spaces: Maria-Victoria Checa Art’s Wescover Map

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       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.

Some of my favorite quotes:

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Van Gogh

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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

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Picasso

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Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso

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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

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The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, but it Bends Toward Justice. Martin Luther King

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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

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Each color lives by its mysterious life. Kandinsky

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There is no must in art, because art is free. Kandinsky

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