CV/Bio
Fine Art Painter/Photographer
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Versatile artist Rebecca McNeely was selected as one of the top 10 percent of professional and emerging artists in the groundbreaking Women Artists of the DMV in 2025.
She paints in oil and water-based media, creating award-winning expressive abstracts, mixed media works and representational paintings. An avid reader, photographer, writer and traveler, Rebecca’s paintings flow from an intuitive and perceptual response to public and personal experience and events. Her paintings represent a fusion of her love of color, of nature, and of fearless and free expression.
She paints largely from her imagination, sometimes drawing on her lifetime of photographs for inspiration and to spark memory. Much of her work is a continuing investigation of landscape in painterly abstracted shape, line and texture--rich with color and gesture.
Gallery Representation:
Van Landingham Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, since 2021
Gallery 75, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, since 2007
Clarendon Gallery and Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA until closure.
Former California Galleries:
Sacramento Fine Arts
Gold Country Gallery, Placerville
Hang it Up Gallery, Eldorado Hills
Mistlin Gallery, Modesto.
Rebecca is frequently accepted into The Art League popular monthly exhibits where she has received numerous awards over the years. She regularly receives awards for her work in the monthly Van Landingham exhibits. A list of her painting awards over the past 27 years is available.
Education and experience
Rebecca has studied painting at The Art League of Alexandria and Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria VA and San Mateo College and The School of Light and Color in California. Her education includes a Bachelors from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Masters in Art work from George Washington University, DC.
Her earlier career included writing and communications for National Geographic Society News Service, National Geographic Traveler, Nature Conservancy International and Pacific Northwest Ballet. After many years pursuing the arts as an avocation, she has painted full time since 1999.
She is an active and exhibiting member of Torpedo Factory Artists Alliance, Arlington Artists Alliance and The Art League of Alexandria where she served on the Board of Directors for many years. She maintained a public studio at Cyan Studios in Crystal City as well as a continuing private home studio where she welcomes visitors by appointment. Her paintings are exhibited in numerous venues in the Washington DC area and in private and public collections throughout the U.S.