Trained as both an architect and as a sculptor, James Rodger Alexander has consistently utilized form to articulate and delineate space rather than simply define the sculptural object. His work finds its formal foundations in minimalism and its formal vocabulary in architecture. The conceptual framework of his sculptural thinking is architectural in nature, involving the reconsideration and assemblage of existing materials and manufactured parts into formal structures, which modulate, activate, capture, and contain space. Both his large scale sculptural installations and small scale sculptural pieces focus primarily on one reoccurring issue: the resolution of the conflict between opposing forces. These opposing forces may be literal and physical or conceptual and philosophical. The recognition of dualities and the quest for a resolution is the consistent element in his work.