Library exhibit features Boxer

The Edmonds Arts Commission presents an exhibit at the Edmonds Library of mixed media work by Nate Boxer now through April 29.

Boxer says his favorite works of art have a common element — they all engage his attention in such a way that he cannot fully explain their affect on him. He continues to gaze back into a piece looking for a foothold, a sense of structure, a key. Sometimes these “keys” are properties he can identify, sometimes not.

In his art, he tries to follow the path of uncertainty as much as possible, throwing out assumptions as he discovers them. Mostly he focuses on remaining aware of his relationship with materials and how arrangements of things (from objects to pencil marks) can change the direction of his thoughts. It is difficult to know when to stop working on a piece as it is his intent to create a ripe incompleteness, something that he hopes may find continued growth in observations by others.

Boxer was born in Tokyo, where he lived until age 2, followed by six years in northern California. From that point he has lived in the Northwest. He attended The Evergreen State College and the University of Washington, studying art and computer science in equal portions. He programs computers to pay the bills and buy art supplies and recently apprenticed with a blacksmith to learn to make things out of steel the old-fashioned way, with hammer and anvil.