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for the Arts. Arts and Alchemy Exhibition, 1993; Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC. 1993; Dostoyevsky Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992 (one woman show - the first American artist to exhibit there); Catherine Palace Museum, Pushkin, Russia. 1992 (one-woman show - the first American artist to exhibit there); Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 1991; and the Copelv Society, Boston, 19761977.'
Rex Slack's paintings, drawings, and unique dioramas preserve popular icons of American culture; a sense of history, place and metaphor are recurring concerns ,of Slack’s art. His paintings and constructions of the fast-disappearing ephemeral elements of our society — trailers, diners, and trains and construction sites viewed in surreal perspectives— reflect our transient mobile culture with their sense of impermanence and possibility. Slack describes his art as a means to order chaos, and to process the complexity of his interactions with the world around him.
Slack's selected exhibition history includes a “Best in Show” (Juror Howard Klein, Rockefeller Foundation) at The Middle Street Gallery, 1997; N^nhler Gallery’s twoperson show “Appalachia,” Washington, D.C. 1991 (Reviewed by Mary McCoy, Washington Post, 8/31/1991); the SECCA show “Lilliputian,”
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