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UNEXPECTED RESONANCES: An Interview with Steven Alexander
"...My hope for the painting is that it acts as a catalyst to dislodge the viewer’s imagination from its day-to-day pattern and that it creates a new place in the world for the viewer's consciousness to wonder, reflect, or just to be still. That's the regenerative power of painting." ...more
"....[Abstraction] embodies, through specific resonances of color, configuration, and physicality, a sense of place -- psychological, physical, existential -- and proposes the potential for meaning through the agency of visual metaphor and presence." ...more
LINKS TO ESSAYS BY:
Peter Frank - Steven Alexander: Presence
"These paintings, compositionally and experientially, are boundless. That is, they do not have a beginning or an end, their formations rarely contained by the edges of the panel, their fields of energy invariably extending beyond. Their inferred space thus encompasses us, or at least the entirety of our visual field." ...more
Lilly Wei - Steven Alexander: Color, Actually
"Alexander is a gifted colorist engrossed by process who continues to believe in pure painting, certain that there is still immense gratification to be obtained by simply looking - when followed by seeing." ...more
Eric Holzman - Steven Alexander: Terraplane
"Alexander’s structures are as ancient as they are new, expressed through the perfect alignment of one shape next to another. He puts forth that beauty is among the great truths that endure." ...more
Mark Wethli - Some Assembly Required
"Steven Alexander’s paintings are contemplative yet shimmering meditations on color, light, and the nuances of paint application. Their burnished surfaces and bittersweet color chords work together seamlessly to create objects of uncertain yet beguiling provenance." ...more
Kate Beck - The Paintings of Steven Alexander
"Steven Alexander creates work within a process driven by purity. His richly hued, geometric surfaces imbue a concrete and sensitive love for his medium that never distorts the medium’s essential nature, but rather respects its every nuance of being, as one respects a lover." ...more
SELECTED PUBLISHED ESSAYS BY STEVEN ALEXANDER
Gonçalo Ivo: Monumental Acts of Devotion
James Perry: Constructing Space
The Poetic Object: Paintings of Rebecca Purdum
Nature: Contemporary Art & the Natural World
Gary Komarin's Zone of Continuity