Rex Sexton

Artists live where all dreams end. Truth, Illusion are a dance of apparitions. You try to capture them, but smoke and mirrors are what you usually get in the end - sometimes life's magic.

I seem to capture that magic best by creating works which are Expressionistic: canvases filled with dreamlike figures, colorful and emotive.

Rex Sexton is an award winning artist and writer based in Philadelphia and Chicago. His art has been exhibited in museums, televised on PBS, written about in newspapers, reproduced in magazines and included in national and international exhibitions. His short stories have been accepted in distinguished journals, most recently in Straylight (University of Wisconsin), Foliate Oak (University of Arkansas), and Saranac Review (SUNY). His short story “Holy Night” received the Editor’s Choice Award in the Eric Hoffer Award competition and was published in Best New Writing 2007.  His recent book of artwork, stories and poems “X Ray Eyes” received acclaim by Chicago Art Magazine: “Sexton’s work … brings to mind the flattened forms and spaces and line qualities of Miro … [and] the bizarre figures and spaces of Chagall.  Bridging reality and fantasy through vaguely chimera-like figures/personified animals, and oddly flat … pictorial spaces, Sexton’s paintings emotionally engage viewers directly with multitudes of figures and multitudes of vivid expressions.”