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 Master 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.