Stanley Boxer: Paintings

Elaine Baker Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of paintings by abstract artist Stanley Boxer.  Never part of a movement or trend, though obviously steeped in the language of Modernism, he was a superb manipulator of surfaces, intensely bonding texture and color.  With surfaces evoked by various painterly means they seem to exist purely in the realm of paint: the artist sensuously exploring its physical possibilities without script or program.

Born in New York City, Boxer was natural draftsman but began formal art training after leaving the Navy at the end of World War II, when his brother persuaded him to take classes at the Art Students League.  He was immediately drawn to painting and stayed with it for nearly five decades.  A prolific and tireless worker he was in the studio seven days a week, preferred the term "practitioner" to "artist" and routinely rotated his attention among several media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking.  At one point he caught the eye of the critic Clement Greenberg, and he was sometimes lumped in with the "colorfield" painters whom Greenberg championed.  But Boxer himself was adamant in rejecting this stylistic label.  Over the years, he remained loyal to the materially dense abstract mode on which his reputation rested.

Boxer had his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York in 1953.  He showed regularly with Tibor de Nagy Gallery through 1975 and in that year began an association with Andre Emmerich Gallery that lasted until 1993.  At the time of his death in 2000 he was represented by Salander/O'Reilly Galleries.

For the past two decades Elaine Baker Gallery has been synonymous with modern and contemporary art, and has come to be a respected resource for collectors, museums, architects, designers and corporations nationwide. The gallery offers works by established and mid-career international artists, while maintaining an inventory of strong secondary market work. The gallery has mounted over 150 important exhibitions, displaying paintings, sculpture, photography and major works on paper.

We have just opened a second location at the prestigious Boca Raton Resort. This new gallery project will house a major sculpture program and be dedicated to presenting museum-quality works of art for acquisition.  Monumental works placed throughout the grounds will include Lynn Chadwick, Boaz Vaadia, Bill Barrett, Aurora Canero among others.  The BocaRaton Resort & Club is open to members and guests only.  For more information, please call 561-447-0321.