Theresa Rykaczewski

Celebrated for her style of bold impasto landscapes and occasional figurative works, Theresa’s artwork transfixes the viewer through a dynamic sense of color and atmosphere that explores what it means to connect to nature during our highly saturated digital age.

Theresa Rykaczewski is an American painter and non-profit gallery director in Atlantic Beach, Florida at Word Revolt Art Gallery and Adjunct Faculty of Visual Art at Jacksonville University.
Her latest series, “Vibrant Forest,” depicts various local and subtropical parks with inspiration drawn from virtual reality and Impressionism. The work seeks to find a balance between mixed desires for real utopian escapes in nature versus the digital preference for luminous hyper color.

Previous series explore similar theoretical threads with the addition of figures and objects lost in nostalgia within the atmospheric marsh landscape, objects that are signifiers of history and changes in work and play over time.

Theresa’s father, a botanical scientist, instilled her with a deep respect for nature, with a librarian mother from Cajun Louisiana who encouraged her to explore her French roots and follow the passion of Impressionist style painting, the landscape emerged as a fo...

MFA Jacksonville University Painting / Drawing, graduated April 2020 GPA 3.96 Phi Kappa Phi

BFA University Missouri St. Louis Painting / Drawing, graduated May 2014 GPA 3.938 Minor Art History

AA St. Charles Community College Fine Arts, graduated May 2012

Academic Awards:

UMSL Center for International Studies Study Abroad Scholarship Italy 2014

UMSL Ferring Art and Art History Study Travel Program Scholarship Manhattan, NY 2013

UMSL Aronson Art and Art History GPA Scholarship Award 2013 and 2014

SCCC Jefferson Award outstanding achievement in History 2012

Beaches History Museum "Coastal Forest" tandem exhibition Nov. 2021 - March 2022

Vandroff Gallery Solo Exhibition Dec 2021

Jacksonville University Faculty Exhibition, 2021

The Link Grand Opening, 6 International Master Artists, & artist talk, Nocatee FL June 2021

Jacksonville Transit Authority 2 year. loan Cultural Council of Jacksonville 2020

W.A.V.E. Women Artist Visual Experiences Jacksonville International Airport 2020

Metallic Arts Exhibition Word Revolt Art Gallery, Group Exhibition Oct. 2019

Glass Works Exhibition Word Revolt Art Gallery, Group Exhibition Aug. 2019

Nelson and Mullins Law Office 41st floor Bank of America Tower 2019 – 2022

In the Works MFA Thesis Exhibition, Alexander Brest Museum, JU, July 2019

Marshlands Plein Air Solo Exhibition, Vandroff Gallery, JCA February 2019

Select Reserve Solo Exhibition, Word Revolt Art Gallery, February 2019

JWS Summer Member Show, Anthem Lakes, Atlantic Beach FL, June 2018

Jacksonville Watercolor Society Spring Exhibition PV Cultural Center 2018

Sunny Days Ahead Art Auction Word Revolt Art Gallery, July 2018

Collectively Human Word Revolt Art Gallery, Group Exhibition Oct/Nov 2017

Stronger Together Word Revolt Art Gallery, Women’...