Rick Maxwell is an internationally recognized artist based in Dallas, Texas. Born Richard Allen Maxwell on October 5th, 1947 in Chicago Illinois. He moved to Temple Texas in the summer of 1968 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.

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, Los Angeles County Museum, Prudential Corporation, Omni Corporation, City of Dallas, Dallas Collages, Exxon Corporation, Marriott Corporation, Jordon Vineyards and the Atlantic Richfield Company.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Dallas, Dallas Texas
Master of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas

Form & Time,Video, Business Council for the Arts, 2026 The DWG Project, Video, 2025 Bending Under Pressure, Video, The Public Broadcasting Services, 2023 Mountain Revival, Lux Magazine, 2018 Bending to his Will, Dallas Morning News,2018 Rick Maxwell New Work, Art News, 1986 The Flying Red Horse, Dallas An Illustrated History, 1982

Form & Time, Business Council for the Arts, 2026
The DWG Project, 2025
Texas Sculpture Group, Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, Texas, 2025
Rick Maxwell, Archival Drawings, Cedars Open Studios, Dallas, Texas, 2024
Members Juried Show, Texas Sculpture Group, Irving Art Center, Irving, 2023
Bending Under Pressure, The Public Broadcasting Services, 2023
Texas Sculpts, Plano Art Association, Plano Texas, 2022
On Evolution and Human Touch, Seoul South Korea, 2018
Mountain Revival, Lux Magazine, 2018
Bending to his Will, Dallas Morning News,2018
2+Dallas+Seoul+Dallas, The Mary Thomas Gallery, Dallas Texas, 2017
Couples, Bathhouse Cultural Center, Dallas Texas, 2016
Texture, Lawndale Art Center, Austin Texas, 2015
Form, Fire and Friction, the Plano Art center, Plano Texas, 2014
Drawn For, The Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas Texas, 2012
Rick Maxwell, Projects 14, The Forum Gallery, Addison Texas, 2008
Rick Maxwell, Recent Works, The bridge gallery, Oak Cliff, Texas, 2005
Rick Maxwell, Ladders, Eastfield gallery, Mesquite, Texas, 1994
Inside Texas Boarders, South Texas Art Mobile, Corpus Christi Texas, 1991
Five State Invitational, Gallery of Port Arthur, Port Arthur Texas, 1990
The House as an Image, Lawndale Annex, Houston, Texas 1985
Rick Maxwell, Recent Works, Grahm Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1984
Rick Maxwell New Work, Art News, 1986
The Flying Red Horse, Dallas An Illustrated History, 1982
The Flying Red Horse, Dallas City Hall, Dallas Texas, 1981
Rick Maxwell, Recent Works, Rubin/Martin Gallery, Seattle Washington, 1981
Rick Maxwell, Painting and Drawings, DW gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1981
Fire,Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, 1980
Rick Maxwell, Waco Art center, Waco Texas, 1980
12, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas, 1979
Rick Maxwell, Recent Works, Clifford Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1978
Maxwell, Gallery 13, KERA Studios, Dallas, Texas, 1977 The Tarrant County Annual, Ft Worth Museum of Modern Art, Ft Worth Texas, 1977

Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles California Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas
El Centro College, Dallas Texas
Southern Methodist University, Highland Park, Texas
Southwestern Bell, Dallas Texas
Shady Oaks Country Club, Ft Worth, Texas
Sewell Lexis, Plano, Texas

JW Marriott Hotel, Austin, Texas
Marriott AC Hotel, Dallas Texas
CUSP by Neiman Marcus, Georgetown Washington
Neiman Marcus, Dallas Texas
The Galleria, Dallas Texas
Exxon Corporation, Houston Campus, Houston Texas
Omni Hotel Corporation, Dallas Texas
City of Dallas, Fretz Park Library, Dallas, Texas