Christine Cover is an artist living and working in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington DC.

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She creates mixed-media paintings using acrylic, oil stick, and pastel to explore the relationship between observation and feeling. Floating marks and fields of color are often held in tension with representational objects, allowing shifts between recognition and perception to unfold within the picture plane.

 

Drawing from the ethos of Fauvism and Color Field painting, she uses heightened color to engage the emotional and sensory nature of her subjects, while also considering color as a subject in itself. Color operates simultaneously as descriptive and autonomous, creating a point of friction central to the work.

 

Her studio practice is guided by the space between color and subject, and by the act of translating lived experience into form. Painting functions as an open-ended process shaped by perception, intuition, and response.

 

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Please reach out if you're interested in projects or collaborations.

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hello@christinecover.com