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We are excited to host Rockville based artist Roya Gharavi, December 4th through January 7th.  The exhibition will be on view at our Federal Hill location.

Roya is an internationally shown artist, having exhibited her paintings in Rome, London and New York.  Her style of painting is reminiscent of Abstract Expressionism, America’s first art movement that flourished in the  1950’s.

Abstract Expressionism died with the coming of Pop Art, you say?

I’m afraid not, because it is still alive and well within Roya work.  The transient, escapist worlds of Motherwell and Pollock bleed through Roya’s canvases and onto our eyes and Psyche’s as viewers.  These paintings are a reflection of the past and yet somehow new.

Perhaps it is the approach and process by which Roya paint’s that makes her paintings so redolent of the Abstract Expressionists.  Shes notes in her artists statement that, “When I paint I just let go.  I don’t do any preliminary sketches,” she has the freedom to express and play and manipulate the paint however she feels in the moment of painting.  It is a child-like sophistication, that is satisfying to create, as well as view.

See more of Roya’s paintings: http://yolaroya.yolasite.com/

Opening reception 6pm to 9pm Friday, December 4^th.