WOMAN WHO PAINTS TIME
About me
I’m Anna Collevecchio, an artist based in Jersey City who has always lived between two worlds: the analytical and the intuitive. With a PhD in Communication Studies and a long career crafting visual narratives for institutions, I eventually returned to the place where everything begins for me — art as a form of inquiry.
My art grows out of a lifelong curiosity about how the universe works. I’m fascinated by the places where physics, philosophy, and spirituality overlap, and I translate that curiosity into visual form. Time is at the center of everything I make. To explore it, I developed a method I call Temporal Psychoexpressionism: I paint using thousands of tiny, counted brushstrokes, recording the moments spent in creative focus. Each piece becomes a kind of “infographic of consciousness” — a map of inner experience made visible through color, texture, and rhythm.
I create paintings, sculptural objects, and installations, all designed to offer meditative, contemplative experiences. My studio is always open to curious, likeminded visitors who want to see the work in progress.
I am a member of the National Association of Women Artists, ProArts, and an artist-in-residence at ART150 in Jersey City. I also mentor emerging creatives through AIGA. My intention is simple: to create artwork that invites people to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with themselves.
And I love gold leaf.
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Anna Collevecchio (b. 1988, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a Jersey City–based contemporary artist whose practice bridges painting, design, and consciousness studies. Trained in graphic arts (BA) and communication studies (MA, PhD), she spent over a decade working at the intersection of design, education, and branding before returning to her first calling: fine art. Since 2010, she has exhibited internationally in more than thirty exhibitions, with recent solo and group shows in New York and New Jersey.
Collevecchio is the originator of Temporal Psychoexpressionism, a process-driven practice that fuses watercolor, spackling paste, and gilded accents to create luminous, fresco-like surfaces. Each work is built stroke by stroke—often numbering in the thousands—and titled by its exact count, turning painting into both meditation and durational record. This method reflects her interest in time, vibration, and the unseen energies that shape lived experience.
Her compositions often take the form of circles, hexagons, and other sacred geometries, intended as portals that invite viewers into heightened states of perception. Inspired by meditation, Hemi-Sync sound technologies, and cross-cultural spiritual traditions, Collevecchio’s work explores the meeting point of science and mysticism, inner life and outer cosmos.
In addition to her studio practice, Collevecchio is an active member of the Jersey City arts community as a resident artist at ART150. She has curated group exhibitions, collaborated with fellow artists on interdisciplinary installations, and placed work in hospitality and corporate collections, including luxury hotels in Florida. Her work has been reviewed by critic Tris McCall (Eye Level) and featured in platforms such as Saatchi Art and Bluethumb.
Collevecchio’s ongoing projects include the Color Breathing sculpture series and Convergence, a body of orrery-inspired installations that map the resonance between human consciousness and cosmic order. Across media, her aim is consistent: to create objects that function simultaneously as artworks, meditative instruments, and energetic transmissions.
She lives and works in Jersey City with her husband and young daughter, who often joins her in the studio—continuing a family lineage of artistic practice that began with her mother, a cityscape painter in St. Petersburg.
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I make art to visualize the invisible: time, energy, the forces we feel but cannot see. Time is my central subject: a human construct, intangible yet powerful, something we all experience but can never hold. I believe art and science are ultimately doing the same work — revealing the hidden laws of existence to our eyes, which can only perceive physical matter. The difference is language, and I'm trying to build a bridge between the two.
Every painting I create is built from thousands of tiny brushstrokes, each one counted and tallied on the sides of the canvas. It's a meditative practice I call Temporal Psychoexpressionism — a way of recording not just what I see, but the time I spend seeing it. I work with materials that carry meaning: spackling paste for its connection to ancient fresco technique, watercolor because water holds memory, metal leaf as a conductor of energy, circular and hexagonal forms as symbolic portals. I count to 100, mark it down, and continue — archiving time through color, shape, and rhythm.
My current line of work, Respira Luminari, extends this inquiry into sculpture and light, translating breath — another invisible force — into a visual, interactive experience. Through all my work, I invite viewers to feel time and energy not as abstractions, but as something resonant, cyclical, embodied, and real.
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2025 – NAWA group show, National Arts Club, New York, USA
2025 – Curator: group show “Contents May Vary”, ART150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Solo show “The Door is Right There”, ART150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Curator: Roberto Colangeli, “Traveling the Interior Horizon”, Art150 Lobby Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2025 – Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Affordable Art Show”, ArtHouse, Jersey city, USA
2024 – “Tangled Up in Blue”, Newport Centre, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Radical Reimagining”, Newark Art Museum, Newark, USA
2024 – ”The Red Show”, Shibumi Gallery, NYC, USA
2024 – "We Curate!" Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – The Affordable Art Show, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, USA2024 – "Midsommar" Art Show, ArtLab Gallery, Mendham, USA
2024 – Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Ritual/Reverence” Art Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2024 – “Touch” Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Static Motion” Art Show, 14C Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 – “Re:Growth” Art Show, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 — Featured in SaatchiArt collection
2024 – "Best in Show 2023" Art Show, Emerge Gallery, NY, USA
2023 – Publication: Women in Arts Network profile feature
2023 – Holiday Art Show. Departed Souls, Jersey City, USA
2023 – Publication: Artist Closeup Blog
2023 – “Why Do You Do It?” Art Show. Boomer Gallery, London, UK
2023 – Personal Show, Open Studio (part of JCAST and Jersey City Art Week). 313 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2023 – Summer Mercado. Wine & Design Studio, Weehawken, USA
2022 – Published a book with watercolor illustrations “History of Public Transportation”, Kacheli publishing, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 – Curator: Irina Alexandrina’s Personal Exhibition. Gallery “Ponte Vecchio", Florence, Italy
2018 – Curator: End of Spring Semester Art Show. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, USA
2017 – Curator: Winter Art Show. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, USA
2016 – “Secret garden”. Sit and Wonder, Brooklyn, USA
2014 – 2012 - Curator: “Blue Horseman, Yellow Sound” Memorial Exhibition. St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 – Arts & Crafts Festival. Old Town Square. Limassol, Cyprus
2012 – Curator: “Simple Things”. Audi Retail center. St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 – Curator: “Hudozhniki Group Show”. Time Cafe, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 – Museum Anniversary Art Show. Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 – Illustration published in Dress Code Fashion Magazine. St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 – Graphic Art Show. Gallery “Anna”. St. Petersburg, Russia
2009 – Quarterly Art Show, Emerging Artists section. Artists Union Gallery. St. Petersburg, Russia
2008 – 1st prize in the “City views” competition among students of art schools. Moscow, Russia
2007 – “Flowers” Exhibition. Central Exhibiting Hall. St. Petersburg, Russia
2006 – The Young Artists Exhibition. Central Art House. Moscow, Russia -
“The Door is Right There” art show review by Tris McCall – independent art critic supported by Andy Warhol Foundation.
