Rex (artist)

Rex is the pseudonym of a living American artist and illustrator closely associated with homosexual fetish art of 1970s and 1980s New York and San Franscisco. He avoids photographs and does not discuss his personal life. His drawings influenced gay culture though graphics made for famous nightclubs including The Mineshaft (gay club) and his influence on artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe. Much censored, he has remained a shadowy figure saying that his drawings "defined who I became" and that there are "no other ‘truths’ out there".

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Early life and work

Abandoned at birth his real name and exact birthday are unknown but references indicate a date in the 1940s. His childhood was spent as a Ward of The State on a farm in a small North-eastern town. He ran away to New York as a teenager in the 1950s where he lived among Beatniks and on the streets of Greenwich Village. While still in his teens he became the protégée of a fashion designer who paid for two years study at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He later worked there in fashion illustration and commercial art, a career that brought him to London and Paris in the late 1960s, while maintaining an apartment on Saint Mark's Place in Manhattan's East Village.

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Rex is Latin for "king", see Rex (king). Specifically, it was the title of the kings of ancient Rome.

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Rex (band)

Rex is an American indie rock band formed in 1994 (though an early version of the band was formed in 1991). Rex was considered one of the most important and influential slowcore bands and released three albums and one EP on Southern Records, as well as a collaboration with Red Red Meat (under the name Loftus) on Perishable Records. Members included Doug Scharin (who was also a member of Codeine, HiM, and June of 44), Curtis Harvey (Pullman), and Phil Spirito (Orso).

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