Jeff Markowsky
In 2022 Markowsky, “The Plein Air Nomad” retired from teaching full time and is currently traveling across North America painting and living a nomadic life. He also Illustrates and serves as an Ambassador for the outdoor recreational clothing company American Backcountry.
Markowsky won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Annual Saint Augustine Plein Air Festival in 2019. He was the 2018 Grand Prize winner of the Lighthouse Art Center 5th Annual Plein Air Festival in Tequesta Florida and returned in 2019 as judge. He won ‘Best Water’ category for the 2019 January/February Plein Air Salon.
He is a member of The Oil Painters of America and was juried in to the 2019 Eastern Regional Exhibition in McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland.
Markowsky won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Annual Saint Augustine Plein Air Festival in 2019. He was the 2018 Grand Prize winner of the Lighthouse Art Center 5th Annual Plein Air Festival in Tequesta Florida and returned in 2019 as judge. He won ‘Best Water’ category for the 2019 January/February Plein Air Salon.
He is a member of The Oil Painters of America and was juried in to the 2019 Eastern Regional Exhibition in McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland.
BORN: 1967 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
EDUCATION:
1991 MFA Illustration, School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1989 Diploma Visual Communications, Alberta College Of Art, Calgary, Canada
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1998-2022 Savannah College Of Art and Design, Savannah Ga., Foundations Professor
1994-1998 New York School of Visual Arts, Savannah, Ga., Painting, and Illustration Professor
AWARDS / HONORS:
2019 Grand Prize Winner. 3rd Annual Saint Augustine Plein Air Festival. Saint Augus tine Florida
2018 Third Place and Museum Purchase Award. Pacific Northwest Plein Air Paint Out. Mary Hill Museum of Art. Columbia River Gorge. Oregon.
2018 Grand Prize Winner. 5th Annual Lighthouse Plein Air Festival. Jupiter Florida
2017 3rd place Quick Paint Competition. Palm Beach Plein Air Festival.
2016 3rd Place and Peoples Choice Award, Forgotten Coast Open Quick Paint Competition,
Apalachicola, Fla.
2016 3rd Place Olmsted Open Quick Paint Competition
2014 Painting published in MANIFEST International Painting Annual 4
2014 Plein Air Magazine published article. July / August Digital Edition
2014 Work published in MANIFEST International Painting Annual 4
2007 Drawing published in American Artist Drawing Magazine, Winter Issue
1995 Playboy College Fiction Illustration Award, SVA
1989 Board of Governors Award, ACA
EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Splendid and Serene, Group Exhibition, The Galleries Carrabus Arts Council. Charlotte N.C.
2018 ADVENTURES OF A PLEIN AIR NOMAD, Solo Exhibition, 20 West State Street, Savannah Ga
2018 BONAVENTURE: A Historic Cemetery in Art. Group Exhibition. Jepson Museum, Savannah GA
2016 Nature Nurtured, Group Exhibition. Wihtefield Gallery, Savannah Ga.
2016 EQUALIZATION, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Espresso. Savannah Ga.
2015 ADVENTURE PAINTING, Solo Exhibition, Osprey Nature Preserve, Osprey FLA
2014 CROSS COUNTRY PLEIN AIR, Solo Exhibition, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, GA
2013 ABOUT FACE, Group Exhibition, Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, Sav Ga
2012 Passing Lane / Hidden River Sentient Bean, Savannah, GA
2012 NUDE 4, Group Exhibition. MANIFEST GALLERY, Cincinnati, OH
2012 EXCAVATION, Solo Exhibition, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010 DRAWING DISCOURSE, Juried group exhibition. UNC, Ashville, NC
2009 IN THE FLESH II Juried Group Exhibition. Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2004 99 PAINTINGS OF OPAINT ON THE WALL, Pei ling Chan Gallery. Savannah GA
2001 Sight.Site.Cite, 3-person Exhibition. Department of Cultural Affairs, Savannah, GA
2001 FLOOD, Group Exhibition. AquaSpace, Savannah, GA
2001 Recent Paintings, One person Exhibition. Gallery Espresso, Savannah, GA
2001 Low Country Landscapes, Juried Group Exhibition. SCAD, Savannah, GA
2000 Arts On the River Juried Fine Arts Exhibition. SCAD, Savannah, GA
1999 Low Country Landscapes. Juried Group Exhibition. SCAD, Savannah, GA
1999 Construction Scenes. One person Exhibition. Metropole, Savannah, GA
1998 Narrow Passages. One Person Exhibition. Athena Gallery, Savannah, GA
1996 Landscapes. One Person Exhibition. School Of Visual Arts, Savannah, GA
1996 Landscapes, Group Exhibition. Marty-Whaley Adams Gallery, Charleston, SC
1994-96 Faculty Exhibition. School Of Visual Arts, Savannah, GA
1991 MFA Graduate Exhibition. School Of Visual Arts, NY.
