About the Artist
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi was born in Tehran, Iran and currently works in the Washington, D.C. area. Ilchi received an M.F.A. in studio art from American University and a B.F.A. from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She has received many awards, including the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship, Zeta Orionis Painting Fellowship, Bethesda Painting Award, Carol Bird Ravenal Travel Award, and the Robyn Rafferty Mathias Research Grant from American University. Ilchi has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally. Her work has been reviewed in a number of publications, including The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and Art Papers. Ilchi has been an artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Playa Summer Lake, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and will be a resident artist at Willapa Bay AiR in summer 2019. She is represented by Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C.Featured Work
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Downrush
Acrylic and watercolor on panel
2017
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.
Across Solemn Distances #13
Acrylic and watercolor on panel
2018
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.
How we break and mend and tremble
Acrylic on Mylar
2016
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.
I looked long at the green trees as you looked deeply into my eyes
Acrylic and watercolor on panel
2015
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.
Across Solemn Distances #11
Acrylic and Watercolor on Panel
2018
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.
And in your life, there comes a darkness.
Acrylic and Watercolor on Panel
2018
Each painting begins with initial layers of fluid acrylic paint over the painting support which is always placed flat on the studio floor. This process is later followed by an intensely controlled approach to painting that weaves in abstract and representational motifs in relation to the pours.