Rex Maurice Oppenheimer

Rex Maurice Oppenheimer ARTIST and WRITER

Honestly, my story is too long to tell here, so I’ll try to give you an overview. Although I had won awards for my art at a very young age, after I dropped out of high school, and after a deep involvement in the Civil Rights movement, I took off on a wayward journey. Writing, prose and poetry, both of which have garnered me awards, dominated my artistic expression for many years.

That quest, fueled by wanderlust, romanticism and artistic passion, propelled me through a checkered past, which included smuggling pre-Columbian art out of Mexico, writing lyrics in Los Angeles, with songs recorded by Jennifer Warnes, Juice Newton and others, dabbling as a writer in the movie business, working with Liam Neeson and Penny Marshall, vagabonding throughout India and across Asia, and, at one time, living in London’s Belgravia replete with Rolls and chauffer. And École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1969.


It was in 2010, while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that I began to paint in earnest. I had met the artist Roger Williams, who, after seeing some of my sketches, invited me to his studio. I workshopped with Roger in that beautiful studio a few times, and although brief, ...

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1969

A few of my 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
Many of my paintings have been used as illustrations. Some of these include the following:

My painting, “Apples in Normandy,” which was used in the publication: “A Spiritual Canticle Poems by Rumi.”

Several images of my paintings, including “California 1972,” “Snapshot,” “Primitive Heart Fertile Mind dancing on the tightrope of Time,” and “Hidden Agenda,” were used to illustrate poems and stories in “Beyond Words,” a literary magazine based in
Berlin."

“The Decision” illustrated “Shadow Poems" by Keisha Cosand- in “LA Magazine.”

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