Lyda Rose Art Gallery

Trained both as an architect and as a sculptor, James Rodger Alexander has consistently utilized form to articulate and delineate space rather than to simply define the sculptural object. His work finds its formal foundations in minimalism and its formal vocabulary in architecture. His sculptural installations focus primarily on a single reoccurring issue: the resolution of the conflict between opposing forces. The opposing forces may be literal and physical or conceptual and philosophical. The artistic response to those issues is integral and innate rather than constructed and contrived. The recognition of dualities and the quest for resolution is the consistent element in his work whether the response is sculptural or photographic and whether the resultant work is temporal or durable. These works have been widely exhibited at various invitational and juried venues throughout the country. In addition to exhibiting sculpture and photographs, he has curated exhibitions and published works on architectural terra cotta, vernacular architecture, public posters as political propaganda, and the conceptual relationship between architecture and sculpture.