Hailing from Exit 4 of the New Jersey Turnpike, Chris Rexon keeps her South Jersey and Philadelphia roots close to her heart and vision. Taking a photo class at UArts in the summer of '72 started a lifelong path to camera craftsmanship and fine art imaging.

 Armed with a photojournalism degree from Syracuse’s Newhouse School, Chris worked for the Smithsonian covering Washington's bicentennial events, settled in DC and taught photography at the National Cathedral School. It was during this time that her work expanded to include travel, event, portrait and editorial assignments.

And her vision and inspirations? Well, you can circle back to Exit 4 and the visual DNA that came from a family of artists: a grandfather who painted geometric Hex signs on Pennsylvania barns incorporating cyclic symmetry and a mother who used mixed media to give form to ethereal landscapes.  Given that mix and crossover of two divergent sides of the brain, it is no wonder that Chris feels equally at home with classic black & white film and rock solid composition as well as digital, filtered and manipulated blasts of color or muted blurs of nature.

Chris agrees:  “I know the ongoing dialogue within: the sun soaked field and a nightmarish industrial landscape. The shaft of light that locks a bird in flight as well as life's fluidity. All are ever present and drive me to preserve their story, emphasizing pattern, line, simplicity, complexity and irony."  

Today, Chris walks and records the diverse terrain in and around her studio in Redding, Connecticut, where she has lived and worked for 25 years. These are the same woods that photographers Steichen and Caponigro roamed not so long ago, and Chris revels in that shared reservoir of visions and kinship to the land.