Jessica Mickey is a local Arlingtonian, long-standing Arlington Artists Alliance member, Falls Church Arts member, McLean Art Society member, and a talented photorealistic oil painter.
Jessica focuses on light and vibrancy, attempting to draw viewers in with color and composition, often making you feel a part of the painting. Her style would most likely be called photorealism, but with a flare of effervescence that creatively captures a moment in time, often better than a photograph ever could. In fact, Jessica’s work has unique undertones of hyper-realism, bringing the viewer’s eye directly to where she wants you to focus, sometimes even making you question whether it’s a painting or a photo.

Jessica was the Co-Director of Gallery Underground (GU) for four years (2013-2017) and oversaw curation and installation of each new month’s show for more than a decade. She exhibited her artwork at GU until its close in 2024, as well as at the former Gallery Clarendon, currently at Falls Church Arts, the Alliance Gallery, and the newly opened (Oct 2025) McLean Art Gallery. She has shown her work at dozens of venues in northern Virginia, her paintings can be found in private collections across the U.S. and internationally, and her artwork has been highlighted in Elan Magazine (March 2020 issue).

Jessica has done many commissions, most often portraits of people and pets, but her favorite compositions are landscapes. In addition, Jessica coordinates and curates several annual art shows each year for the Arlington Artists Alliance, manages the exhibition & curation logistics for one of the local Alliance venues (Spring Point Health), and has been a juror for the McLean Art Society and the Van Landingham Gallery at the Torpedo Factory.