Alcamosparadiso 1991

Stanley Boxer made Alcamosparadiso with layers of colourful gestures that shift and emerge through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Boxer – imagine making this, the decisions, one after the other! The surface is built up with thick layers, a clotted dreamy mess, and the physicality of the medium shapes our experience. There is something delicate about the smattering of small yellow teardrops across the surface. It's like he's trying to suggest infinite space through small and simple repetition, a bit like Yayoi Kusama. Boxer worked with abstraction but always with the aim of creating a feeling, an experience, that is close to reality. Like so many painters, he is in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring creativity. For Boxer, painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning.