DAVID REX JOYNER
David Rex Joyner
David Rex Joyner is an artist and educator from New Orleans. His work explores imagined abstract vistas in paintings, drawings, and constructions that vary in scale and process. His work is connected by an effort to marry spatial arrangements with gestural mark making. Joyner defines this methodology as Abstract Impressionism. He utilizes an inventory of gestural processes to create scapes and arrangements that evoke visions ranging from the subatomic to the cosmic.
David Rex Joyner's New Orleans studio
EXHIBITIONS
partial listing
Dimensional: Brent Houzenga and David Rex Joyner- Sibley Gallery,
New Orleans, LA; 2012.
Works by Andrew Bucci and David Rex Joyner- Cole Pratt Gallery,
New Orleans, LA; 2011.
Waterlines - Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA; 2009.
New Works - Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA; 2006.
Paintings and Drawings - River Oaks Art Center, Alexandria, LA; 2006.
Inventory - Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA; 2004.
Art in the Dark - The Pickery, New Orleans, LA; 2002.
Not Your Typical Still Life Show - Jonathan Ferrara Gallery,
New Orleans, LA; 2001.
Fool’s Fest - juried group show, The Pickery, New Orleans, LA; 2000.
The Long Body - Graduate Thesis Exhibition, University of New Orleans; 1999. Cinemascapes - Movie Pitchers, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1998.
paintings, drawings, and selected text - The Look, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1997. Graduate Group Exhibitions - group shows, University of New Orleans; 1995-98.
5 Years, A Retrospective - NORMCA, New Orleans, LA; 1995.
Under-Xposed - juried group show, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1994.
Sticks and Stones - two person show, NORMCA, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1994. Ishtar - Neutral Ground Coffee House, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1994.
The Columbus Show - juried group show, Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana; 1992.
Untitled - one person show - Abstract Book Shop, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1991.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
partial listing
Hopscotch in the City, New Orleans, LA. Art in The Dark - The Pickery, 2002 Fool’s Fest - The Pickery, 2000
NORMCA, New Orleans, LA.
Red Pen/Black Pen - Max James and Lorna Leedy, 1995.
Building Houses for Ghosts - Jorin Ostroska, 1995.
The N.O.R.D. Horde - works by children of New Orleans, 1995. Curated by Itself - group show, 1995.
Watershed - Tony Zatzick, 1994.
Maggie Bazz and Marti Ittenback Paintings - two person show, 1994. Max James: Paintings, Comics, Drawings - one person show, 1994. First National Open Exhibition - juried group show, 1994.
Second National Open: Exhibition of Photography -
juried group show,1994.
EDUCATION
Master of Education, studies in curriculum and instruction, educational technology, and literacy. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2002.
Master of Fine Arts Degree, Painting, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 1999.
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts (Painting), University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1990.
Studied art history and comparative literature abroad at UNO Innsbruck, 1990.