Narrative Biography

Rick Maxwell is an internationally recognized artist based in Dallas, Texas. and graduated from the University of Dallas, in Irving Texas, with a Bachelor in Arts in 1971 at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas Texas, with a Masters in Fine Arts in 1975. He taught for the Dallas County Community Colleges from 1975 through 2008 on four of their seven campuses. He earned a Minnie Piper Stevens Award for excellence in teaching in 1981 and a Faculty of the Year Award in 1999. From 2008 to 2018 he served as Executive Dean of the School of Arts at Brookhaven Collage. Maxwell has maintained a studio in the Cedars neighborhood on the Southern rim of downtown Dallas since 2002.

A Chicagoan, Maxwell moved to Texas in the late 1960’s graduating from The University of Dallas with a Bachelor in Arts in 1971 and a Master in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 1975.

His sculptures and drawings which reflect a unique sensibility to natural forms are in major art museums and public and private collections including: the Dallas Museum of Art, Prudential Corporation, Omni Corporation, City of Dallas, Dallas Collages, Exxon Corporation, Marriott Corporation, Jordon Vineyards and the Atlantic Richfield Company.