Raleigh Schein

I have spent many years of my art career involved in the creation and production of commercial art. Throughout those successful, creative and ground breaking professional endeavors, I continued to pursue my personal, creative vision, including adding to my accomplishments a Masters of Fine Art degree in painting from The American University in Washington, DC, while producing artwork for a number of private collections.



Today, my work incorporates the lessons of my fine art training with the disciplines of the commercial art world. I'm painting images as a way to stop time, to really see and experience that image (a place, a person, a scene) at that moment in time, and to feel what the light and shadow, created by its existence, has to say or to ask.

I look for images that ask me questions about existence, loneliness, beauty in the face of chaos, and that add color to life. Working from one or more photographs and sketches, I draw and redraw the image, sometimes on fields of one or more tinted ground colors that define mood or underlying spatial relationships in the composition. Incrementally, I build the composition with layers of colors to a final defining of the light and shadow, that envelop the objects in the pai...

BA and MFA in Painting from The American University in Washington, DC.

2015
NorthStar Watermedia Society
2015 National Exhibition
Hopkins, MN Center for the Arts

The Mitchell Gallery,
St John's College, Annapolis, MD
Sixth Biennial
"Image and Imagination",
Anne Arundel County Juried Exhibition

The Strathmore, Bethesda, MD
24th Annual Strathmore Artists Juried Exhibition,
What's On Your Mind?

2014
SOLO EXHIBITION
Galleries at Quiet Waters Park,
Annapolis, MD

2013
The MD Federation of Art (MFA)
Artists of Anne Arundel County and MFA Members
Juried Exhibition in the Galleries at Quiet Waters Park

MFA Gallery,
"Strokes of Genius", National Juried Show

2012
The Mitchell Gallery,
St John's College, Annapolis, MD
Fifth Biennial
"Image and Imagination",
Anne Arundel County Juried Exhibition