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| Artist in Studio, 2014 |
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Rex Matthew Dixon  |
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| Artist in studio November 2015 |
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| Studio floor and artist shoes |
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| Studo floor |
ARTIST’S PROFILE
Rex Dixon is a painter, trained in a
number of art schools in the UK. He was Visual Arts Officer at Midlands Art
Centre, Birmingham from 1972-1977, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films and
seminars on all aspects of contemporary art. He taught painting as a full time
lecturer on the B.A. degree course at the New University of Ulster, Belfast,
prior to teaching in the painting department at the Edna Manley School for the
Visual Arts, Jamaica from 1985 to 1999. He has exhibited extensively in the
Caribbean and internationally and represented Jamaica in the second and third
Biennale of Caribbean and Central American Painting, The Museum of Modern Art,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His work can be seen in the permanent
collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Soft Box Studios Gallery,
Port of Spain, Trinidad. His permanent studio is 5A Mountain View, Maracas
Valley, St. Joseph, Trinidad, West Indies. He lives between Northern Ireland and Trinidad and has galleries in both countries.
Email: rexdixon39@gmail.com
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REX DIXON:
Solo exhibitions
REX DIXON:
Solo exhibitions
1973 Midlands Arts
Centre, Birmingham, England
1974 Midlands Arts
Centre, Birmingham, England
1976 Dudley Art Gallery,
England
1977 Stafford Art
Gallery, England
1980 Ibis Gallery,
Leamington Spa, England
1980 Holt Street
Gallery, Birmingham, England
1983 Art and Design
Centre, Ulster Polytechnic,
Belfast N. Ireland
1984 Art and Design
Centre, Ulster Polytechnic,
Belfast N. Ireland
1985 Octagon Gallery,
Belfast, N. Ireland
1986 Bilston Art
Gallery, England
1988 Central Space
Gallery, London, England
1989 Frame Centre
Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1991 Frame Centre
Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1993 Galerie 14,
Kingston, Jamaica
1994 & 1996
Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1997 Via Galerie, The
Hague, The Netherlands
1998 & 2000 Mutual
Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2001 Caribbean
Contemporary Arts, Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago
2002 Gallery 1234 ,
Hotel Normandie, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2003 National Museum and
Art Gallery,
Port of Spain, Trinidad
and Tobago
2006 The Gallery at Fine
Art, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
2007 Amrose Sable
Gallery, Albany, NY
2008 Softbox Studios
Gallery, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
2010 “Seventeen Colours”
Softbox Studios Gallery,
Port of Spain,
MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1967 Torre Abbey,
Torquay (Group Exhibition)
1971 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
(Three-Man Exhibition)
1975 Curwen Gallery, London, England
(Group Exhibition)
1977 “Midlands Art Now”, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham England (Group Exhibition)
1977 “Mid Art 77”, Dudley Art Gallery
(Group Exhibition)
1981 “Mid-Art 81”, Dudley Art Gallery
(Group Exhibition)
1981 “Ikon Gallery Touring Show” - Various
Venues in Midlands
1982 “Sade 82”, Cork, Ireland, (Group
Exhibition)
1984 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
(Four-Man Exhibition)
1990 Bay Gallery, Montego Bay, Jamaica
(Three Man Exhibition)
1991 Galerie Malraux, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
(Group Exhibition)
1992 Marpad Art Gallery, Miami, U.S.A.
(Group Exhibition)
1994 “Home & Away - Seven Jamaican Artists”
October Gallery, London, England
1994 Second Biennial of Caribbean & Central
American Painting, Museum of
Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 Third Biennial of Caribbean & Central
American Painting, Museum of Modern
Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 “Black as Colour” National Gallery of
Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1985 - 2001 “Annual National Art Exhibition”
National Gallery of Jamaica
2003 Grove Gallery, Down Patrick,
Northern Ireland
2003 “Caribbean Realities II” Museum of the Americas,
Charleston, South Carolina
2005 “Homage to
Bob Marley” National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2006 “The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity: An Exhibition
of Photo-based works by Caribbean artists and photographers” - co-curated with
Patricia Mohammed, National Library, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Museum of
Modern Art, Santo Domingo.
2006 “A Suitable Distance: Impressions of Trinidad by five
artists” - Rex Dixon, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Kofi Kayiga and Roberta
Stoddart: at Soft Box Studios, Trinidad, Curated by Andy Jacobs
2002
- 2012 “The Jamaica National Biennial” National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston,
Jamaica
2008- 2013 Annual Summer Exhibition, Engine Room Gallery,
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
R. M. Dixon
The Death of Painting
B.A Fine Arts
Thesis
Stourbridge College of Art
West Midlands
England
"We
have the position therefore of the artist, faithful to qualitative values,
facing the quantitative values of modern civilization. He knows that in other times the artist, even
if he was infinitely less free, never felt himself so much a derelict, rejected
and isolated. Hence his dreams of reaction
and revolution, his retrospective and prophetic utopias, his equally impossible
desire to inaugurate new orders or to restore ancient ones. Thus the only legitimate reason the artist
can give for perusing his independent sign system is as a symptom of his state
of alienation in the face of a materially orientated society. Forced to live in the desert of his own
surrender or on the mountain of his own solitude, the artist finds compensation
in that heroic doom which Baudelaire called his curse and his blessing. Culminating inevitably in a sense of guilt
since, although being in opposition to the existing society, he can only exist
in the material sense of the word by selling his products to that very society
whose standard he rejects". (Page 25)
