Jim Rehak
I capture the seasonal changes of the landscape through my plein air paintings.
My enthusiasm for plein air takes me outside to paint fields, marshes, farms,
rivers and bays wherever I travel. My interest in art started with comic book illustration at an early age . It was while studying for my BFA at Maryland
Institute College of Art that an interest in oil painting emerged.
Art has always been a vocation for me - as a portrait and caricature artist in Ocean City, MD during college, art director at a sign company, teacher and freelance court illustrator.
www.jimrehak.com
My enthusiasm for plein air takes me outside to paint fields, marshes, farms,
rivers and bays wherever I travel. My interest in art started with comic book illustration at an early age . It was while studying for my BFA at Maryland
Institute College of Art that an interest in oil painting emerged.
Art has always been a vocation for me - as a portrait and caricature artist in Ocean City, MD during college, art director at a sign company, teacher and freelance court illustrator.
www.jimrehak.com
BEDUCATION
BFA / Maryland Institute of Art / Baltimore, MD/ class of 1978
MEMBER
MAPAPA/ Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association
Rehoboth Art League/ Rehoboth Beach, DE
Art League of Ocean City / Ocean City, MD
PAPCB / Plein Air Painters of the Chesapeake Bay / Easton, MD
2021
Featured Artist /Peninsula Gallery /Lewes, DE
Art on Location Plein Air (Juried) / Knoxville, TN
Oxford, MD Virtual Art Exhibit
3rd Place Public Artist, Annapolis Plein Air / MD
Award of Excellence / Local Color Art Exhibit, Easton, MD
W.S. Corkran Award / Rehoboth Art League Members Exhibit
Artists Paint OC Plein Air / Ocean City, MD
Blowing Rock Plein Air , NC
Chincoteague Plein Air , VA
Honorable Mention / Harford County Plein Air, MD
Best in Show / Paint Dover Plein Air, DE
Tidelands Plein Air / Tappahannock, VA
Plein Air Crisfield, MD
Featured Artist / Bishops Stock Gallery, Snow Hill, MD
PAST AWARDS
Best Nocturne Award / Artists Paint OC, MD / 2020
Award of Excellence / Local Color Art Exhibit / Easton, MD 2019
2nd Place / Artists Paint OC / Ocean City, MD 2019
Best in Show / Art in Bloom Plein Air / Lewes, DE 2019
Achievement Award / Farm to Table Plein Air, PA 2019
Artists Choice Award / Artists Paint OC / Ocean City, MD 2018
3rd Place Quick Draw / Artists Paint OC / Ocean City, MD 2018
1st Place / Brandywine Plein Air / Wilmington, DE 2014
1st Place Quick Draw / Artists Paint OC / Ocean City, MD 2014
1st Place / Paint Berlin Plein Air / Berlin, MD 2013
Published in “100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic “ Hardcover
