Limitless Art Movement: A Review of Rex Dixon's Across the Waters: Figuration to Abstraction 1980s to 2024
Portrait of a Woman by Rex Dixon. Mixed Media on Board. 1997. Limitless Art Movement : A Review of Rex Dixon's Latest Central Bank of T&T Art Exhibition by David Cave The term “movement” in art usually refers to a particular style or genre of art of a certain time. In the case of Rex Dixon, and his latest exhibition Across the Waters Figuration to Abstraction 1980s to 2024 we are not merely pointing to the development of a style or a technique. We are including a reference to a physical movement from his native land in the UK, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Jamaica circa 1985, and then to Trinidad in 2001, where he currently resides with his wife, Professor Patricia Mohammed. Dixon’s work that was recently on display in the Central Bank Museum, from mid-March to mid-April 2024, offered an opulent and delightful glimpse into the diversity and expanse of Dixon’s artistic oeuvre over a time span of approximately 40 years. First impressions of the expansi...