ABOUT
Christine Cover is an artist living and working in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.
She creates mixed-media paintings using acrylic, oil stick, and pastel to examine the boundaries between seeing and sensing. 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.
Grounded in the visual language of Fauvism and Color Field painting, Cover uses heightened color to engage the emotional and sensory nature of her subjects, while also considering color a subject in itself. In this way, color operates simultaneously as descriptive and autonomous.
Her studio practice is guided by the act of translating lived experience into form. Painting functions as an open-ended process shaped by perception, intuition, and response.
Please reach out if you're interested in projects or collaborations.
Photo by Obiekwe Okolo
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Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2021 Letters From a Maximalist, Upper West Side Cafe Gallery
Washington, DC
2020 Relatedness, Homme Gallery
Washington, DC
2019 Movement and Location, Center for the Healing Arts Gallery
Kansas City, MO
Group
2025 Art on the Avenue, Alexandria, VA
2025 BLOOM, National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC
2023 Art on the Avenue, Alexandria, VA
2023 Umbrella Art Exhibition, Union Market, Washington, DC
2023 SQFT, The Asian Fusion Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 Made in DC, Washington, DC
Grants & Awards
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, District of Columbia
Grant Recipient, 2022
Collections
SOHO House & Co Inc., The Ned — Washington, DC
PricewaterhouseCoopers — Washington, DC
Sweetgreen — Gaithersburg, MD
Rosewood Hotel — Washington DC
Salt & Sundry — Washington, DC
Private collections in North America and Europe
Selected Press
Anicia Juarez, “Artists We Love,” City Lifestyle, April 2026
“14 DC Artists Inspiring Us Now,” Modern Luxury, December 2023
Diane Lindquist, “Christine Cover,” Gurl Museum Day, May 2020
Sofia Tuovinen, “In Kansas, A Family Shows Appreciation for Unique Mid-Century
Design,” Design Sponge, February 2019
Elaine McMillion Sheldon, “It’s Been a Great Year,” She Does Podcast, June 2016
Jill Renae Hicks, “Christine Cover,” Columbia Daily Tribune, June 2011
Professional Experience
Art Educator, Academy of the Holy Cross, 2019–2022
Kensington, MD
Art Educator, Oak Park High School, 2014–2019
Kansas City, MO
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), University of Missouri, 2013
Columbia, MO
Education
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Master of Art Education, 2014
Emphasis in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2011
Drawing & Painting, Minor in Art History
