{"title":"Stanley Boxer:  A Centennial Exhibition","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMadelyn Jordon Fine Art is pleased to present \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStanley Boxer: A Centennial Exhibition, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ea show that explores the rich and continually evolving practice of 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century American abstract painter Stanley Boxer on the occasion of his 100\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e birthday. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe installation includes a collection of iconic paintings created across four decades, celebrating Boxer’s relentless experimentation with surface, gesture, and material throughout his more than forty-year career. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe exhibition will run from June 17 – August 14, 2026 and there will be an opening reception on \u003cb\u003eWednesday, June 17\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e from 6-8 pm\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe public is invited and artist Joyce Weinstein, Boxer’s wife, shall be in attendance.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStanley Boxer (1926–2000) transformed pigment and surface into a language of pure abstraction. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eOften described by critics as a “sculptor of paint,” Stanley Boxer cultivated a materially rich style in which paint was layered and reworked until the canvas carried its own sense of movement. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHis paintings possess an improvisatory energy rooted in Abstract Expressionism while remaining distinctly his own. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAcross painting, sculpture, collage, and printmaking, Boxer maintained a lifelong commitment to creating works that feel tactile and emotionally charged. As critic Karen Wilkin observed, Boxer’s paintings are “at once lyrical and brutal, aggressively physical and ineffably elusive.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis exhibition introduces three paintings new to the gallery from Boxer’s \u003ci\u003eRibbon Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e (1971-76).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eDeveloped following a period of illness and confinement in late 1970, the Ribbon Paintings reveal an introspective sensibility in Boxer’s work.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #403f42; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe works are characterized by rhythmic, ribbon-like gestures that sweep across the canvas, creating a sense of suspended movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the 1980’s, Boxer demonstrated an ability to heavily manipulate surfaces through paint.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotjoustatdusk \u003c\/i\u003e(1985) is a brilliant embodiment of the sensual, three-dimensional quality of his paintings through dense impasto and textured brushwork techniques. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBuilt from a unified palette, the painting is animated through the rich presence of paint itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTracing the evolution of his body of work, the late-period paintings from the 1990’s onward are often characterized by Boxer’s incorporating unconventional materials that heightened the tactile quality of his work. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePebbles, glitter, strings, and other natural elements fuse with fields of paint to create dynamic compositions that blur the boundary between painting and object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThough entirely abstract, Boxer’s paintings create their own visual atmosphere, inviting viewers to engage in interpretation without the work ever settling into fixed meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBorn in New York City in 1926, Stanley Boxer studied at the Art Students League following his service in the Navy during World War II. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHis first exhibition took place in 1953 at Perdalma Gallery in New York, beginning a prolific career that would include more than one hundred solo exhibitions. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBoxer received numerous accolades throughout his lifetime, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1975 and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant in 1989. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eHis work is held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. 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