Rex Maurice Oppenheimer

Rex Maurice Oppenheimer

Palm Springs, CA, United States

About Rex Maurice Oppenheimer

Rex Maurice Oppenheimer Winner in five of the painting Category, ArtSlant International Awards Showcases in 2017, 2015, 2013. Primarily self taught, Award-winning Writer/Artist Rex Maurice Oppenheimer has written many nonfiction books and articles, poetry and lyrics for songs recorded on Capitol and Arista Records; his art has been purchased by collectors in the United States and abroad. Although he had won awards as an artist at an early age, writing dominated his life for many years. The desire to paint, which had smoldered within, emerged some years ago when he was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he met and studied briefly with the Artist Roger Williams. A dual American/French citizen, he has traveled extensively and lived on four continents. A combination of wanderlust, romanticism and artistic passion propelled him through a checkered past, which included everything from smuggling pre-Columbian art out of Mexico, songwriting in Los Angeles, vagabonding throughout India and across Asia, to living in London’s Belgravia replete with Rolls and chauffer. He says he is entranced by the ability of pigment brushed onto canvas to create the color, texture and form of people, places and things in a way that somehow displays and evokes more than just those things. That reveals magic in the ordinary and speaks to a mystical connection, felt more than thought, with those forms. ARTIST'S STATEMENT Color and design are essential elements in my work, which while it has strong representational aspects, also incorporates large doses of abstraction and imagination. I hope to find the intersection of the unknown and the commonplace, to bring the soul of the mountain to the surface of its stones. I know very well that galleries and critics like an artist to present groups of paintings whose similarity appears as an identifiable body of work. I understand and appreciate that, yet as an artist, although there are some rules and laws I must, or choose, to obey, that isn't one of them. I paint bold and fast, guided only by my love of creation. rexoppenheimer.com rexwriter.com

Education:

I have slithered through the Underground
Partied in penthouses
I've ridden in rickshaws
And been chauffeured in Rolls Royces
I've been sober, I've been drunk
Been a playboy, and a punk,
And i still don't know
What's goin' on

Events:

bG Gallery Bergamot, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA May 5, 2018 - May 28, 2018. Opening reception May 5, 5 - 8 pm

SIMEON DEN GALLERY, Cathedral City, CA: December 9 - 30, Opening reception December 9, 5 - 8 pm

EXHIBITION: Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council "Expressions of the Cochella Valley." Opening reception March 2, 2017

EXHIBITION: Smith Vargas Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA, Opening reception April 29, 2016

EXHIBITION: Muse on 8th, Los Angeles, September, October, November 2014. Opening reception September 4, 2014

Exhibitions:

Palm Springs Art Museum: Metamorphosis: exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, The Galen, from Thursday, March 28 through Friday, April 12, 2019.

bG Gallery Bergamot, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA May 5, 2018 - May 28, 2018. Opening reception May 5, 5 - 8 pm

SIMEON DEN GALLERY, Cathedral City, CA: December 9 - 30, Opening reception December 9, 5 - 8 pm

Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council "Expressions of the Cochella Valley." Opening reception March 2, 2017

Smith Vargas Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA, Opening reception April 29, 2016

Muse on 8th, Los Angeles, September, October, November 2014. Opening reception September 4, 2014